Canon PRO-300 - making a basic A3 colour print on a high quality Baryta paper

hi my name's keith cooper and in this short video i'm going to show the basics of making a color print on a barito type paper using the canon prograph pro 300 printer now this is an a3 plus printer 13 inch width um i've got detailed reviews and loads of other articles about using the printer but this is just the simple how you can make a print i'm going to be using a brighter paper from a local paper supplier this is a pinnacle silk barita 310 there are lots of papers like this it's a nice heavy paper it has a lustre finish when you get papers like this keep them in the box because the biggest risk to paper jamming going through printers is bent edges bent corners you see this is quite a thick paper so this is what i'm going to be using for doing the print i'm going to be using canon's print layout software not because it's necessarily the best way because it's a nice simple way and it works the same on my mac as it would on a windows system now if you've got another way you like printing then that's good and well but this is a simple way of getting into printing use the canon software get some experience with the printer and then explore your own work and how you want to print it the printer is on it's connected up in this instance on a wired network but it works perfectly well over wireless ribbon usb i'll load the paper into the back here now the moment i open up the top flap here it prompts me for paper information it's got sensors that pick this up we'll put the load guide in there now take a sheet of paper and there are guide rails that slide back and forth here the paper needs to be centered so i'll just drop that in this is a3 paper and i'll just move that there i've now got the guides on either side and it's set for that doesn't matter that it's quite straight at the top here obviously if i got bigger paper take a bit of care over the top this is where i'm asked what size is the paper what type of paper now you don't actually need to set this information on the printer but i find that going through the getting into a habit of print of setting this and then comparing it what you get on the screen minimizes the problems you get in accidentally loading the wrong paper or the wrong settings or anything like that so first page size it's not a4 which was the default that it was set to previously so i'll set that to a3 it also asks me for the paper type it says plain paper which it isn't i happen to know that the printer profile for this particular paper was generated using the pro lustre setting so although it's not pro luster paper the profile the icc profile it was built using the pro luster setting so i'll set prolaster there is only a limited range of settings here so it's quite possible that there won't be a setting that exactly matches your paper but when you get a profile for it it should say what the best setting to use for it is and that's what you use anyway i've set these i have a3 pro lustre use the button here to take it down to register it's now setting the paper and it says a3 pro lustre on the screen so that is set to that and that's all we need to do i'll now go to the computer and actually print i've opened up this image in professional print layout which is the free software from canon for printing i've sent the image from photoshop to this software and it will print by this you can use other applications but it works fine things i need to look at are first of all that it's pointing to the right printer which it is under the settings i have print settings where i've set the lustre paper type paper size and also i'm using the top feed print quality standard is perfectly good enough for this there's no point going to the higher quality setting on this standard will do just fine on layout i've set the margin adjustments here to center the picture on the paper i'm not going to print this one borderless but you can do if you want it works perfectly well but you do need to make sure that you don't lose too much of the image when you sprint it boardless because obviously some of it has to overlap the size of the paper and lastly color management i'm using an icc profile and i've got lots of them and i'm selecting the pinnacle silk barita 310 pro lustre now that's one that i just built myself and the name tells me what the paper is for what the printer is for and also the setting which is the lustre setting i used on the printer itself i've also set a relative colorimetric rendering intent you can experiment with these settings if you use relative color metric uh black point compensation is best left on but you can change this to perceptual if you want but in all this is quite simple to set up you're setting up the paper type the paper settings paper size how the print goes and you can then just print i've set the print going on the computer it takes a short while it's not the fastest of laptops and it will transfer to this it can be quite a bit of whirring and activity in the printer before anything happens don't worry this is perfectly normal papers loaded and printing should be underway as you can see the paper is going through and i can see the print starting to come through at this end doesn't take long even for larger prints than this it's only a few minutes you can print faster but there's a slight reduction in image quality and there's the print coming out uh paper's gone in the background i can't see just the end of it disappearing into the printer and here comes my print color looks good there's no marks there's no indications i've got anything seriously wrong the print is coming out exactly as i'd expect it it looks pretty much like it looks on the screen that's it it really is that simple to print a half decent looking picture the problem is um that people come across is that the printing bit may be easy but you do have to have pictures that are going to print well now i've written loads of articles have a look at the review for the printer here about tips and guides about how to get better results from your printing but the real thing is that if you have a good picture on your computer you've edited it carefully it doesn't need to be taken along while editing but just take some care in it and that you've actually taken a good photograph in the first place which really does make a difference then um it's quite simple to make a print much like waiting for a kettle to boil it always takes longer while you're actually watching the print comes out and there we go we're done there's the print the photograph is of a new building near here that i was asked to photograph for the architects this photograph actually uses the brand new lauer 15mm shift lens which i've got some information about as well but um that's it there's nothing more i've printed hopefully these uh short videos and the articles are of use please do ask if you've got any questions or suggestions for things you'd like covered in these sort of short example videos happy to make them and thanks for watching

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Length: 9min 46sec (586 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 28 2020