Canon Pro9500 User Manual

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Version 1.0

Tutorial

Digital Photo Professional Ver.2.1

Adobe

Photoshop® CS/CS2

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Contents

Overview of the Easy-PhotoPrint Pro 1

Photo printing work-flow using Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Install Easy-PhotoPrint Pro 3

Digital Photo Professional

35 mm film single-lens reflex + scanner

Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Color mode

Monochrome mode

Sheet Printing Paper Dimensions 28-29

RAW Image Adjustment and Picture Style settings

Print RAW images after transferring them directly to Easy-PhotoPrint Pro 5

Convert RAW images to TIFF or JPEG and save them to transfer directly to Adobe® Photoshop® CS/CS2 6

Scan film, then open scanned data using Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

Add further retouches, then print (Transfer image data directly to Easy-PhotoPrint Pro)

Freely customize colors in PIXMA Pro9500/Pro9000

Enable ICC Profile

Linear Tone

Photo Color

Check "Grayscale Photo"

Getting the right margin for your photographs

Print with the Color Mode

Printing

Print faithfully to the characteristics of "portrait" or "landscape" in the Picture Style Accurately print Adobe

Create your favorite picture while adjusting the image for printing

Print images according to your preference for a photograph, based on memory colors.

Print color data in highly expressive black and white gradations without color shift

Print data in your desired colors using Grayscale mode in the Picture Style (Toning effect(None)).

Print data using a filter effect in your desired colors, using Grayscale mode in the Picture Style (Toning effect(None)).

Printing B/W photographs as beautiful artworks

Use Grayscale mode in the Picture Style to print image data using preferred tones, such as with sepia, with the colors as they are (Toning effect(On)).

RGB (1998) color space

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Overview

of the Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro is plug-in software for Professional Print. This powerful software application will satisfy the needs of both professionals and high-level amateurs by providing effective printing solutions.

PIXUS Pro9500 and Pro9000 professional photo printers support paper sizes larger than A3. These two printers, made specifically to create photographic works of art, not only enable distinct expressiveness in the final printout, with long shelflife, but they also maximize that performance. This dedicated print software "Easy-PhotoPrint Pro" is bundled to make it easy for anyone to use these products. That is the essence of the Easy-PhotoPrint Pro. Professionals and high-level amateurs, including users of the EOS DIGITAL, alike will quickly recognize that the Easy-PhotoPrint Pro eliminates the troublesome and complicated tasks associated with printing, and that they can easily print out photographs as beautiful as one can imagine.

Startup as plug-in software

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro starts up as a plug-in software program in a version later than Digital Photo Professional Ver.2.1 and in

Adobe

Photoshop® CS/CS2. It can directly hand-over image data. Then, after developing and retouching images, this

software application allows you to shift seamlessly and directly to the print work.

Solves problems associated with printing for users of Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

Specifically, problems like "troublesome print size settings," "can't batch print multiple images," and "color management settings are complex" are now in the past. Easy-PhotoPrint Pro solves these problems that users of the Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 often face when printing.

Faithfully reproduces the original colors found in EOS DIGITAL

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro correctly recognizes the color space information set by Digital Photo Professional or Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 and reflects that in the final print, to faithfully reproduce images captured by EOS DIGITAL on the PIXUS Pro9500/Pro9000. This not only faithfully reproduces the coloring of the picture style set by Digital Photo Professional, but it also prints with the wide color space available in Adobe

RGB(1998).

New features perfect for creating photographs

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro is provided a whole range of new features developed based on EOS DIGITAL and Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 user work-flows. Specifically, this software offers users print modes to satisfy any user need. Users will immediately find use for features like the "Linear Tone" mode that linearly applies adjustments made to images, or the

"Grayscale Photo" mode that prints authentic looking B/W photographs. Other features include independently setting the

color balance, brightness and contrast of the printer, and registering and calling these settings up.

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro makes it fun and easy to produce beautiful, high-quality photographs.

Comfortable, and Easy Photograph Production using the Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Shooting Retouch Images Set Printing Features Done

Can't Get Your Desired Results

Image Adjustments

on the Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Color Balance Brightness Contrast

Adobe, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe RGB (1998) are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.

Printer Settings are Troublesome

If You Use the Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Paper Sizes and Layouts are Easy to Set

Color Management Settings are Easy Settings for Beautiful B/W Output

are Easy Batch Printing of Multiple Images

Photo printing work-flow using Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Image transfer

Digital single-lens reflex

JPEG

photographs

Digital Photo Professional

RAW Image Adjustment / Picture Style settings

Image transfer

Seamless linked printing

RAW

photographs

35 mm film single-lens reflex

Convert/Save

RAW images to TIFF or JPEG

Image transfer

Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

Retouching/image transfer

Scanner

color balance, brightness, contrast

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Print faithfully to the

characteristics of "portrait" or

"landscape" in the Picture Style

Accurately print Adobe

color space

Enable ICC Profile

RGB

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Color data

Customize printing colors:

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with the colors as they are.

Color Mode

Color Management

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Create your favorite picture

while adjusting

the image for printing

Linear Tone Photo Color

Print images according to

based on memory colors.

Plug-in

Use Grayscale mode

in the Picture Style to print image data

using preferred tones,

such as with sepia,

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your preference

for a photograph,

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in highly expressive

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without color shift

Monochrome

data

Customize printing colors:

color balance, brightness, contrast

Print color data

black and white

gradations

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Monochrome Mode

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Print data

in your desired colors

using Grayscale mode

in the Picture Style.

Print data

using a filter effect in your desired colors, using Grayscale mode

in the Picture Style.

Printing

B/W photographs as

beautiful artworks

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Printing

Registration and call up of settings

Install Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

With only four easy clicks, you can plug in to and install Digital Photo

Professional and Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2.

After installation, Easy-PhotoPrint Pro is started from the screen below of Digital Photo Professional Ver.2.1

or Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2.

Digital Photo Professional Ver.2.1

Select[File] [Link printing with Canon printer] [Print with Easy-PhotoPrint Pro].

Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

Select[File] [Automate] [Easy-PhotoPrint Pro].

Digital Photo Professional

RAW Image Adjustment and Picture Style settings

Adjust RAW images

Digital Photo Professional (bundled with the EOS Digital cameras) is

software that is provided a high-speed RAW developing process, and image

adjusting function that realize a working environment suitable for a

professional work-flow. This includes an editing screen that allows high-

speed previews and multiple image display, and a comparison function

RAW photographs

RAW

Digital

Photo Professional

Ver.2.1

allowing the photographer to compare images before and after adjustments

have been made.

Picture Style

Digital Photo Professional Ver.2.1 uses Picture Style to adjust RAW images.

This allows the photographer to reset Picture Styles for RAW images of EOS-

1D Mark II N/EOS 5D/EOS 30D, and to reflect preferred Picture Styles onto

RAW images captured by an EOS DIGITAL that is not provided with the Picture

Style function. This also allows making adjustments of hue, saturation etc.

Image adjustment

Picture Style

RAW

Digital Photo Professional adjusts RAW images and saves them as recipes in separate files.

Set to "Monochrome" in Picture Style

While this can set images to general monochrome, it also enables the user

to apply filter effects of yellow, orange, red and green to the images.

Additionally, using the toning effect allows you to change images into a

monotone in such as sepia and blue.

Digital Photo Professional

Print RAW images after transferring them directly to Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Digital

Digital Photo Professional and Easy-PhotoPrint Pro, Linking these enables printing of RAW images.

Photo Professional

Ver.2.1

RAW

RAW image

transfer

To print data of images photographed in RAW format, I have to develop the images, and then convert them to TIFF or JPEG. So, it takes a lot of effort, and is quite a bother." Digital Photo Professional and Easy-PhotoPrint Pro will change all that. By linking these two applications together, you can print RAW images using PIXMA. This takes away the trouble of converting original data to TIFF or JPEG images and saving them to print by another application. Furthermore, RAW images can be transferred directly from Digital Photo Professional Ver.2.1 to Easy-PhotoPrint Pro with one click, without having to be saved.

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

RAW

RAW image transfer

RAW image print

Digital Photo Professional Ver.2.1

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Digital Photo Professional

Convert RAW images to TIFF or JPEG and save them to transfer directly to Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

Digital

Retouch using Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2, then convert RAW images to TIFF or JPEG and save them.

Photo Professional

Ver.2.1

RAW

Convert/Save

JPEG 8/16bit

TIFF

Image data

transfer

Photographers that want to make further, more detailed retouches using Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2, use Digital PhotoProfessional to adjust the RAW images, then convert them to JPEG or 8/16 bit TIFF format for saving. Select [Convert and save...] from the [File] to develop images one at a time, or select [Batch process...] to develop a number of images all at once.

Adobe Photoshop

CS/CS2

JPEG 8/16bit

TIFF

Transfer converted and saved RAW images to Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

Digital Photo Professional enables transferring files converted to JPEG or 8/16 bit TIFF format to Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2. Select the image, then simply click [Transfer to Photoshop] in the [Tools] menu. This offers a simple way to automatically transfer images.

Digital Photo Professional Ver.2.1

Adobe Photoshop CS2

35 mm film single-lens reflex + scanner

Scan film, then open scanned data using Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

When printing images captured by a standard film camera, use a scanner to

load image data to Easy-PhotoPrint Pro via Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2.

If using CanoScan9950F, ScanGear CS starts up by selecting [CanoScan9950F]

from [Import] in the [File] menu of Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2. Select source

(negative or positive film), and click the preview button to check the image.

Film photographs

Then, click the scan button to scan the image. The scanned image will open in

Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2.

(See the following page for details on how to transfer images from Adobe

Photoshop CS/CS2 to Easy-PhotoPrint Pro.)

ScanGear CS

Adobe Photoshop CS2

Scan

EPS PSDJPEG 8/16bit

TIFF

Other

RGB

formats

Adobe Photoshop

CS/CS2

EPS PSDJPEG 8/16bit

TIFF

Other

RGB

formats

ScanGear CS

Adobe Photoshop CS2

Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

Add further retouches, then print

(Transfer image data directly to Easy-PhotoPrint Pro)

Photoshop

Start Easy-PhotoPrint Pro plug-ins from Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

CS/CS2

Transfer images retouched using Adobe

EPS PSDJPEG 8/16bit

TIFF

Other

RGB

formats

Plug-in startup

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

EPS PSDJPEG 8/16bit

TIFF

Photoshop CS/CS2 to Easy-PhotoPrint Pro.

This offers seamless transfers simply by

clicking [Automate] in the [File] menu in

Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2, then [Easy-

PhotoPrint Pro]. Then, shift to your print

work. This easy-to-use application is like

Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2's printing

function has been upgraded.

Batch transfer images opened using Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 to Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

You can batch-transfer up to 400 images for display. Furthermore, it handles all file

formats (PSD, EPS etc.) supported by Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 in the RGB format.

Other

RGB

formats

Easy print settings for simple, carefree printing work

When printing from Adobe Photoshop, there were many complicated tasks like

making complex settings for print layouts and color management. Another problem

was that multiple printings could not be performed at one time. Easy-PhotoPrint

Pro solves all those issues. All print-related tasks for Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2

users are now uniformly controllable with Easy-PhotoPrint Pro, a unified

management solution.

Images are displayed in the order in which the images were created

using Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2.

All images are set to print one-at-a-time in default.

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Freely customize colors in PIXMA Pro9500/Pro9000

Independently set and register color settings

Easy-PhotoPrint Pro

Color Balance Adjustment

in the printer driver

With Easy-PhotoPrint Pro, colors can be freely adjusted in the PIXMA Pro9500/Pro9000. Adjustments include Color Balance, Brightness and Contrast. This new system reflects the user's intended coloring, by allowing color settings for specific types of art paper, or creating colors finely-tuned for each object of shooting.

Color Balance Adjustment

1. Slide bars

For users who have specific target/intented colors in mind, slide bars are provided to make fine adjustments to cyan, magenta and yellow values.

2. Pattern Print

For users that are not quite sure which color value to increase or decrease, or would like to preview the changes first on the actual printout, "Pattern Print" function is offered. This automatically creates simulated images with varying color balance as specified by the user, and prints out the results on a sheet of paper. Users can then determine color balance after previewing that printout. Users can also keep the printed sheet for another print opportunity, so that they can reproduce the same settings as a basis for a new color adjustment.

Print All Directions

Single Hue

(Example: print in Direction R)

InputInput

The cyan, magenta and yellow parameter values are printed out right below each image. That way, users can simply type in those values to return the color balance to their preferred one.

Prints samples where yellow, red, magenta, blue, cyan and green are varied based on the original image (shown in the red frame). This allows users to select their most preferred coloring by checking the actual printout, including slight color differences.

Users that want to make even more detailed changes to the color balance can use the function that prints samples where yellow, red, magenta, blue, cyan and green can be individually varied. When wanting to increase red, choose to print in Direction R and up to 48 simulated images are output. Original image is at the bottom left.

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