Printing calibration tips?

[Chew Toy McCoy]

I got a new Canon printer and the coloration is way too bright a lot of the time. Is there an app or something to setup a profile or something where the print matches more closely to my screen? For some reason the actual Canon Mac app doesn't see my printer and isn't listed as a supported printer. It's a PIXMA G620. Big bonus if there's an option I can use on my iPhone or iPad.

 

[Nycturne]

Is there an app or something to setup a profile or something where the print matches more closely to my screen?

When I did stuff like this more frequently, it was generally the other way around. Need to ensure the display is properly profiled, and then use Soft-Proofing with a printer/paper ICC profile to properly simulate what it will look like on the actual paper you are using. The paper itself along with the inks used define a fixed color volume you can't really change. The best results I've ever gotten out of something like Lightroom required making sure I had a good profile for the screen at a known nit level for my display profile, and then following the paper manufacturer's recommendation for ICC profile to use when Soft Proofing and printing. This was on a 5K iMac that was also calibrated to 120 nits, and I left the brightness settings untouched once I knew where it needed to be to get 120 nits from the display.

iPads are even more problematic here. The built-in display profile is fine in terms of color gamut, but since changing screen brightness changes your white point, you still need some way to measure and fix the screen brightness to something appropriate such as a calibration meter hooked up to a Mac. Affinity Photo on the iPad does appear to support Soft-Proofing and will let you import ICC profiles though, which is at least promising.

Now, can you apply certain adjustments to dial in something like the "exposure" of the print if you aren't worried about color gamut? The Canon software I used initially could do it, but it is a bit of trial and error, which I don't recommend if you can avoid it as it's just simpler to have a fixed editing environment where you can rely on ICC profiles alone.