Canon iP100 photo printer
The Canon iP100 is a great litle photo printer that I use for my regular 10x15 cm up to A4 photo prints. As the HP T120 / T520 does not support borderless prinring and sheet sizes below A4, you
will need a dedicated photo printer for just that. The iP100 is a great choice in this respect and you can get one used cheap these days. For photo printing, the iP100 only uses the four color
dye based CLI-36 cartridge with ChromaLife 100 ink. THose inks have very good colorfastness with Canon photo papers. The PGI-45 cartridge in the iP100 is only used for printing text and is
pigment based.
To use ICC profiles with the iP100 driver, follow the instructions below. You can download the iP100 ICC profiles here. This includes the ICC profiles I made using my SpyderPRINT SR, such as for HP Advanced Photo Paper Glossy. They may work for the Canon iP110 as well, given that they share printhea and inks.
Fri
04
Dec
2015
Lascaux UV Protect 3 review
Given that HP does not produce it's famous - and for dye ink printers much needed - HP Premium Plus swellable papers anymore, I decided to try out some UV protect spray on pigment ink paper HP Instant Dray Satin Photo to test what would happen in the short term and the long term (3 months). I paid EUR 20 for the 400ml Lascaux UV Protect 3 (which is the Satin finish version).
I followed the instructions on the Lascaux UV Protect 3 spray can before applying (shaking for two minutes). Straight off the bat I noticed that after applying the spray, a grey haze started to show on the print. After 20 minutes, the print was completely covered with this grey haze (like tiny dust particles). See the image below.
Sat
21
Nov
2015
How to disable color management in the Canon iP100 print driver for printing with ICC profiles
To print a photo to the iP100 or iP110 with the use of a (custom) ICC profile, you have to make sure that all color management in the iP100 driver dialog is turned off.
You can use Photoshop or any other ICC aware program to then print to the iP100 without any color management introduced by the driver itself and match your screen colors (presumed that your screen is calibrated) to the printer output.
The below illustrations are with a driver in the Dutch language, but I am sure you can make the translation based on the illustrations.
It is important to select the right media type (type of paper) because the driver will adjust the amount of ink used and dry time accordingly. This means that you need to know with what media type an ICC profile is made. I you do not know, you can go with trial and error.