Canon has, at last, produced a driver for some of these. These include certain models in the 'Pixma TS' series. However, there are some 'consumer' printers for which there are no OEM drivers available for macOS, especially certain Canon models.

The only remedy is to replace it with the correct Canon/Epson/HP driver, IF available. If you have (inadvertently?) installed this Airprint driver you will absolutely not be able to print our (or any other) Profiling Targets properly, AND not be able to correctly use 'Application Colour Management' in Photoshop, Lightroom, Capture One, Qimage, etc. Important to note is that, although the driver is named 'Airprint', it is not only used for wi-fi printing BUT is also used for printing via USB or Ethernet.Ģ) Cyans and greens printing very light and unsaturated, with cyan turning towards 'turquoise'.ģ) Saturated reds and magentas often printing with cyan in them, with magenta turning towards 'purple'.Ĥ) The 'Color Matching' settings in the menu will usually be wrong, and sometimes be selectable when they should be 'greyed-out'. These basic drivers are the 'Airprint' ones designed for printing snapshots directly from unsophisticated apps and not for serious photographers who want control over their printing. The problem is usually caused by the very basic and undocumented Apple Airprint printer driver being installed rather than the more sophisticated genuine Canon, Epson or HP, etc. These problems may show when printing our profiling charts using the Adobe utility, or when printing images from Photoshop, Lightroom, or other applications with 'Application Colour Management'. There are some Mac users who are unable to print without Colour Management problems when using various printers. The Faulty Airprint Printer DriverĪs this is probably the oldest and most common Mac printing problem we should probably deal with it first. This is written with photographers in mind, so you may find more in-depth information and solutions elsewhere. There's also some advice on Mac 'housekeeping' and why not to rush in and upgrade to the latest version.

We explain a few of them here, along with possible fixes or work-arounds. Over the past few years, especially since the release of Apple's macOS 10.14 'Mojave' and later versions, several colour problems were reported by our customers and on internet photographic fora. Printing and Other Problems in macOS, especially 'Mojave', 'Catalina', 'Big Sur', 'Monterey' and maybe 'Ventura'.

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