Printing in Tiff Format

[leon]

Hi Guys, although this is probably old news to some of you, it is however a new experience for me, and something I came across quite accidentely.

Recently I purchased a pretty good Canon Printer as the other one died and went to printer land, the new one is the Pixma IX 4000, which will print up to A3 size prints, just in case I ever produce a masterpiece

I certainly dose a good job, anyway I also bought a new Canon 5D, and with this came new Canon ESO Solution Disc, which is an upgrade of the last one they put out with the previous 5D.

Although the upgrade is small, they have added some interesting aspects.

I was about to print an image and hadn't changed it to jpeg, and it was still in the Tiff format, the earlier edition of the EOS Soloution Disc would only let one print in jpeg.

Anyway, off it went, in the Tiff format, and I must say what a difference, would this be because no data is lost, which would be the case if i had converted to jpeg.

To be honest I didn't even know you could print in Tiff.

Leon

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi Leon

Yes, TIF is much better! It's 16 bit, so a full range of colours available, where-as jpegs are only 8 bit.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

A word of caution though, make sure your printer is getting its colour profile from Photoshop (which I assume your using) rather than using it's own colour profile. You could end up with some rather funny colourations at times. Alternatively set Photoshop up to be using the printer colour profile. Either way it's important to match them to ensure colour fidelity.

[leon]

Ah yes Paul I have spent many hours getting that as good a possible, I read the bible on PhotoShop Astronomy, and followed every instruction.

The colour on the monitor is pretty close to the colour on the pinited images, thanks for the advice though.

Leon