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I recently connected a Canon PIXMA IP8720 to my MacPro running OS/X Yosemite 10.10.2. As much as I try, I cannot get the printer to product prints of photographs with the correct colors. The colors are way off. I've tried to coordinate the color profiles of the Mac, monitor and printer but to no avail. I have the same printer using a wireless connection to my HP Desktop running Vista and have been able to coordinate the color profiles to the point where the prints are coming out reasonably close to what I would expect, but the quality is not there yet. Since my most current photography software is on the Mac, I'd like to get that working ASAP, but can't find any good documentation that talks to the color profiles supported by OS/X or how to approach setting up printer interfaces correctly. Where can I get this information? Any input that the community could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Barbara, Thanks very much taking the time to respond to my posting. Your input and directions were just what I needed.I accessed the print settings in the pull down menu, setup the print options including the color profile for Elements and the Printer to sRGB, and printed my picture. This resolved all the invalid color problems I was having, but I did notice that there was a hint of magenta overall in the picture. I had read an article that said to use Canon Color Matching instead of Color Sync to prevent that but I couldn't make that change in the pull down menu. I tried in the Presets dialog box but that didn't appear to be possible. Should I make that change as well?
Also, in my travels through Elements 13 I notice under Edit->Color Settings that there were options for No Color Mgmt, Optimize for Screen, for Printing, or ability to chose one or the other (real time I assume). How do those options fit into this scenario?
Thanks again

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