dizzyp Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 What could cause different print saturation? I have printed the same TIFF image with an Adobe RGB (1998) profile, which I then print to my Pixma Pro-100 using the supplied ICC file for the type of paper I am using (Moab Entrada). Photoshop's print (on the right) seems darker, more saturated, the the one printed via Affinity Photo (left). Photoshop shows no gamut warning, where as Affinity shows pretty much all the purple, reds and oranges as grey with gamut warning. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I would love to replace Photoshop with Affinity Photo, but this is concerning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dizzyp Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 Another image that shows how Affinity Photo prints are faded (especially in the purple background) compare to printed from Adobe Photoshop. Same tiff image, same ICC profile, same printer. Please help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Are you using a Mac or a PC? The print dialogs are different for each of them. I only know about the Mac one but in it there are several options that affect how color info is interpreted for printing. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dizzyp Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 The TIFF is set up with Adobe RGB (1998). I set up a soft proof layer with printer/paper ICC. Printer set up is as follows: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Hmm, did you assigned the TIFF's Adobe RGB (1998) profile inside of AP with AP itself or was it embedded from some other app here? Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dizzyp Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 It was created with Affinity Designer, with Adobe RGB (1998) as the default profile. Exported as a TIFF, with profile embedded. This file was then open in Photoshop and Affinity Photo to print and compare. What is interesting is printing directly from Designer with the same printer settings, colors come out deeper and more saturated (the way they should). The only reason I exported the vector drawing as a TIFF to print, was this was the process I used when I would sent pieces to a third party to print (I just recently invested in the Pixma Pro-100). I may just know print directly from Designer, I'm just curious as to what could causing the variation, when the profiles, ICC, and printer is exactly the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 I can't claim to be an expert, especially if you're using a Mac, but did you remove or hide the soft proof layer before printing? I think that a soft proofing layer is intended to be used to see on-screen how your photo will look when printed, and to guide you in making other adjustments to it before printing. But you need to remove or hide that layer before you actually send the file to the printer. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 8 hours ago, dizzyp said: It was created with Affinity Designer, with Adobe RGB (1998) as the default profile. Exported as a TIFF, with profile embedded. This file was then open in Photoshop and Affinity Photo to print and compare. What is interesting is printing directly from Designer with the same printer settings, colors come out deeper and more saturated (the way they should). ... Assuming that AD and AP share the same underlayed profile handling and print engines here, they usually should generate pretty similar results. - If you didn't altered any layer settings (or like walt.farrell said maybe accidently forgotten to hide/remove the soft prove layer) then there is probably some sort of difference in their output/print engines or some bug. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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