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Hi all

I am trying to move over to Affinity Photo from Photoshop but one thing has got me stumped and I needs some help

I print my photos at home on a Epson Inkjet printer using custom ICC profiles and my monitor is also profiled and in Photoshop what i see on the screen i see in the print, thst is they are a very good match.

In Affinity Photo, although I have used all the same printer settings and in Affinity on the print dialog I believe I have the correct settings, ie App controls colour and in the colour management window I select my custom profile and even though the image looks correct when I soft proof with the same profile, when I send it to print the colours are miles off.

 

So obviously I am doing something wrong, what's the correct way to set up Affinity to print with custom profiles.

 

Thanks for any help with this 

 

Paul

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15 hours ago, Paul-H said:

In Affinity Photo, although I have used all the same printer settings and in Affinity on the print dialog I believe I have the correct settings, ie App controls colour and in the colour management window I select my custom profile and even though the image looks correct when I soft proof with the same profile, when I send it to print the colours are miles off.

Just to make sure, in case it's not obvious: you need to hide or delete the soft-proofing layer before you send the photo to the printer. If you forget to do that you'll get incorrect results.

Also, are you using Windows or Mac?

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Can anyone please tell me where you put your icc profiles when using Mac (Mojave 10.14), as I cannot see my profiles when using Affinity Photo. I purchased this application in the hope of using my custom profiles when printing.

There is a problem in PS using Mojave and my Epson 2100 such that the images will not print. I was hoping Affinity might fix this issue. Am I mistaken?

 

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3 hours ago, Less said:

Can anyone please tell me where you put your icc profiles when using Mac (Mojave 10.14)

How to install printer color profiles - OSX 10.13 Mojave & 10.11 El Capitan

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
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1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7

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