Canon Pixma iX6550 dark printout

Any help please with setting this printer up with CS5. I have tried a couple of setting but the print comes out very dark.

Running win 7 64bit
Monitor is a samsung Syncmaster 2243bw and calibrated with huey and connected to a nvidia geforce 9800 GT (the dvi socket)

Thanks in advance

Does it work OK with other programs such as Canon's Easy-Photoprint Ex? I find that well tuned to their printers, not surprisingly, and it can handle 16 bit images now. Should give you a good baseline. My iP5000 prints very close to the screen image (usually!) so I often save the image and then print it from that to save faffing about.
The Adobe programs allow you to use either Adobe's print settings or the printers own ones. Have you tried both? (Sorry if I'm telling you how to suck eggs!)

John

Have you tried some test prints to set up a profile for the paper you are using

Barrie has raised a good point, you've given lots of details regarding your monitor etc but have not said what paper your using.

Desn't sound if the monitor is misleading you, rather the printer driver settings.

On my older Canon you can turn off auto color/intensity in the printer settings and adjust intensity, contrast and lightness to your preferences.

I too use the provided Easy Photo Print rather than my photo program for final output as it does do a brilliant job of outputting correctly. Do check it is set for quality priority in settings as this is not a default when installed!
It uses Canon papers for the paper output settings but I find most full weight papers are happy with the Photo Paper Pro setting.

Thanks for all the help. It seems using the canon program is the way to go.

I've tried two papers, Epson premium glossy and Rymans photo glossy. Similar results on both. I will have another go today just using the canon program. I had even toyed with the idea of installing the printer on a separate computer, saving the files to a key and trying a print from there. I'm using canon genuine inks so it's a bit expensive but hopefully once set up it'll be worth it

While on the subject has anyone tried the look-alike inks from Premier Inks ? Because the printer is relatively new I haven't tried them yet.

I use the chipped high quality Swiss ink cartridges from ink.co.uk and have found them excellent.

Hi there

You might need to adjust a couple of CS5 settings to get accuracy from the Canon printer drivers, and therefore the same result as printing out through Canon's own software. If you already have done all this, then I'm not sure why the results would come out different to Canon, but see if this helps....

First of all set up your colour settings. I always set up the RGB colour Management to preserve the embedded profiles. I also use the Adobe ACE engine and use Absolute Colorimetric, as it is the most accurate. The access to these settings are in the 'Edit/Colour Settings' menu (Shift+Ctrl+K)

When you are to make a print go to File/Print and in the dialogue, choose your printer, and in the colour management dialogue, choose 'Document' (you should see the RGB colour profile it will use in brackets), and then make sure your printer manages the colour, and that you choose 'Absolute Colorimetric'.

Then click on Print settings', which will open the Canon print Driver software. Follow through with your desired settings, and make a print.

Good Luck

On my old Canon i560, under Win 7:
Start>Control Panel> Devices>Printers>Canon Inkjet>Preferences ...
and under the Main tab set color/intensity to Manual, and then click on Set ...
Now it is possible to lighten/darken the whole print.
Worked for me when a new monitor caused a "problem" in that what I saw on the screen was not what came out of the printer.
Geoff