Book Production

My Hahnemuhle fine art inkjet album arrived.  Printing it is turning out to be more time consuming than I had anticipated.  I have spent a long time researching ICC profiles for various papers/printers, and how to soft proof.  When I actually came to download the specific profile I needed, I became slightly unstuck as Hahnemuhle only provide the paper profiles for professional standard Canon inkjet printers.  Mine is a Canon Pixma MP560.
This led me back to the internet to search on forums/discussions for any other users who had come across a similar issue.  The consensus was, to use the setting "Matt Photo Paper", in absence of the correct specific profile.

I had already created a "mock-up" book, to help me with layout and ordering, I then did some test prints of my pages onto plain paper to make sure that the formatting looked OK and that I could print onto 2 sides correctly.

I think the prints look ok using the Matte paper setting, and the colours have been accurately reproduced.

Here are the settings I used:

A4 (borderless)
Matte photo paper
RIGHT HAND PAGES - need reverse orientation checking in "Layout" section of printer dialogue.  This needs to be unchecked when printing the Left pages.

Printing the individual pages

                                                           drying the prints

mock-up of book

The book is assembled with brass screws, and so will assemble later when the prints have had time to settle.