I've been using the MG6320 creating ICC profiles for this printer.
To my surprise I did not realize that there was a feature lurking inside the driver that I never expected before.
That feature is the ability of the print driver itself to provide color management with 3rd party ICC profiles directly. The first time I had seen this was with Canon was with the Pro-100. I had never seen this before in letter sized and A4 printers before....NEVER. Only on Epson wider carriage machines before Canon finally offered this on the Pro-100 and now on this desktop narrow carriage model.
Well it is in the MG6320 ( 6 tank with gray ink) I'm pretty certain that it also exists on similar European machines and higher specified All in Ones as well.
My MG5420 which uses the same carts ( 250/251 , 5 tank) does not allow this. I will have to update the driver and see if Canon has added it in.
The significance of this is that ANYONE can use ICC profiles and get superb results without going through the likes of Photoshop etc. No need for high end software.
The other aspect is that if you get an ICC profile for plain paper, you can print documents with ICC profiles!!!!! This I have done and it works!
These 250/251 printers are actually very good except that it displays some granularity in mid greys where the Pro-100 is smooth. Other than that, they will print far better in quality than what you would expect for an ALl in One. For the small addition in cost for the 6 tank versus the 5 tank version, this feature is worth it if you desire a very capable All in One printer...possibly the best Photo Quality All in One now offered...expecially with this feature.
Here are the profiles for those interested. The method to use these on the 6 tank machines are IDENTICAL to the Pro-100.
http://www.precisioncolors.com/C6EICC.html
The above ICC profiles took a continuous run of 14 hours of processing on a 3.6 GHz AMD PhenomII X4 @3.6Ghz!
To my surprise I did not realize that there was a feature lurking inside the driver that I never expected before.
That feature is the ability of the print driver itself to provide color management with 3rd party ICC profiles directly. The first time I had seen this was with Canon was with the Pro-100. I had never seen this before in letter sized and A4 printers before....NEVER. Only on Epson wider carriage machines before Canon finally offered this on the Pro-100 and now on this desktop narrow carriage model.
Well it is in the MG6320 ( 6 tank with gray ink) I'm pretty certain that it also exists on similar European machines and higher specified All in Ones as well.
My MG5420 which uses the same carts ( 250/251 , 5 tank) does not allow this. I will have to update the driver and see if Canon has added it in.
The significance of this is that ANYONE can use ICC profiles and get superb results without going through the likes of Photoshop etc. No need for high end software.
The other aspect is that if you get an ICC profile for plain paper, you can print documents with ICC profiles!!!!! This I have done and it works!
These 250/251 printers are actually very good except that it displays some granularity in mid greys where the Pro-100 is smooth. Other than that, they will print far better in quality than what you would expect for an ALl in One. For the small addition in cost for the 6 tank versus the 5 tank version, this feature is worth it if you desire a very capable All in One printer...possibly the best Photo Quality All in One now offered...expecially with this feature.
Here are the profiles for those interested. The method to use these on the 6 tank machines are IDENTICAL to the Pro-100.
http://www.precisioncolors.com/C6EICC.html
The above ICC profiles took a continuous run of 14 hours of processing on a 3.6 GHz AMD PhenomII X4 @3.6Ghz!