Canon Pro9500 - Very Frustrating

iMac 3.06 GHz

OS 10.6.1

ID 5.0.4

Canon 10.26.0.0 Driver

Has anyone here managed to print to a Canon Pro9500 and reach a reasonable degree of colour matching to their monitor? I have, to the best of my knowledge, applied the correct settings, yet I keep getting colours that are pretty far off (generally weak and unsaturated).

I thought it may be two different profiles being applied on top of one another, but I have selected ColorSync in the printer dialog, and this is supposed to let the application handle the colour. Plus ''Let InDesign Determine Colors'' is set in the box as well.

One thing I have noticed is in IDs Color Management/Printer Profile the profile I really want (GL = Photo Paper Plus Glossy II) is not available, and I cannot actually select that until I click the printer button on the bottom of the dialog box. So maybe there are two profiles fighting with each other(?)

When I import a hi-rez PDF of the same file into Photoshop, and print from there, the colour is much more accurate. I should add that this particular layout is commonly used by our client, so I'm familiar with how it looks on screen, in a 'proper' injet proof, and on press.

I didn't think this would be a walk in the park, but I didn't expect it to be this frustrating either. I've been considering purchasing a monitor %26amp; printer calibration system but I never had to do this with my Epson.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Canon Pro9500 - Very Frustrating

It is late and I don't have time to get into this right now. Anyway this has all been covered hundreds of time before.

Do a search on ''Print as Bitmap''

Canon Pro9500 - Very Frustrating

Sorry, I loaded Snow Leopard so had to create a new user temporarily (Yarp001) ...

I tried the Print as Bitmap option but no difference. I'm looking at a software/hardware colour management solution.