The four dye-based inks for photo printing naturally have a smaller gamut (or colour space) than in Epson’s competing photo printers that use six dye-based inks but, even so, the Canon’s colour rendition looks very lifelike and natural for everything from portrait skin tones to vibrant landscapes. Better still, you can keep plain paper for document printing in the internal cassette, and load sheets of variously sized photo paper into the upright rear feeder, as and when you want to create photo prints. And, again, anyone doing print production will know to convert to CMYK if needed.Typical of Canon 5-ink printers over the years, this one runs on a pigment-based black cartridge for rich, solid text in document printing, along with dye-based cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks for photo output. Providing CMYK files will mean those printing on inkjet printers may get drastically inaccurate color. Most home-user printers require color to be sent as RGB. Saving as RGB ensures home-users get more accurate color if they were to print the JPGs. Saving as JPG offers the smallest file size while retaining the largest dimensions and the highest compatibility possible. In many instances a PDF will be larger in terms of file size as well. In addition, file sizes for Tiffs may means that's not a viable option. And, as posted, anyone using the files for print should be very familiar with altering an RGB JPG for print production. But really, only those using files for print will prefer them - so you would be limiting the market for those files to a degree. PDF would work, but the more home-based users may be confused by the PDF and unhappy that it can't just be posted to some social media site, or show up inline in an email, etc. And home users won't be confused by the JPG format. After all every stock photo site provides JPGs. You most likely wouldn't even notice any change due to compression.Īnyone using the images for print production will know (or should know at least) how to handle the jpg. This will produce high quality images with only minimal discernible variation due to jpg compression. Save as RGB JPG with a quality setting of 12.

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