Picking the right media type on Canon machines, fixing paper curl on fine art prints, and more.

Unsure how to tell your printer which media type you’re working with? Professional printmaker Renée Besta is on the show this week to talk through Canon media type settings, setting up great side-by-side soft proofs in Lightroom, and defeating the dreaded paper curl on fine art prints.

* Letting Photoshop control colors on Canon printers

* Making sure your media type matches your desired output

* Decoding Canon special media types

* Taming paper curl – Causes, prevention

* Tools to fix paper curl (low and high cost options)

* The easiest way to keep colors in gamut (and the hard/inefficient way)

* Side-by-side soft-proofing – don’t just trust your memory of color

* Much more!

Listen in to learn about Canon media settings and defeating paper curl

Show Notes

* Check out Renée’s photography on her website, and get our PDF of all of her blog posts and podcast appearances by texting “RBESTA” to 33444.

* Listeners featured in this episode include Jim, Howard, and Otis from Lightscap3s.com.

* Resources to help remove paper curl:

* Use a commercial device such as the BIENFANG D-Roller.

* Create a homemade device with metal or PVC pipe, a window shade (awesome low-cost solution), or the one described in a past blog post.

* Love the show? Have some feedback for us? Leave us a review on iTunes.

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Announcer 1: You are listening to the AskBC podcast – your printmaking questions, answered by the experts!

Justin: Hey guys, this is your host Justin. Welcome to Episode 22 of the AskBC podcast. Today we have back with us, resident expert Renee Besta, and we are going to talk about Canon media type settings, soft proofing in Lightroom, and resolving paper curl. Let’s go ahead and jump right into the questions!

Announcer 2: Jim asks, “I’m having a hard time understanding a particular issue regarding printing when using PhotoShop’s plug-in with my Canon iPF6450 printer. When I select ‘Let Photoshop Control Color,’ how does the printer know which media I am using? It would seem that I have to set the media type. If that is the case, what setting would I use for Silverada Canvas?”

Renee: Okay, great question. And of course, yes you always need to choose the media type when you’re printing. It doesn’t matter what brand or type of paper you’re using, and that controls how much ink is laid down and in what matter it’s laid down. What he needs to do, there are very detailed instructions on Breathing Color’s website suppport pages that’ll walk you through all the s...