Some were very close to accurate right out of the box, but others were not even close. I would strengthen what Len said if you don't calibrate your monitor, it's just a roll of the dice whether your prints look like your screen. In addition to the editing that he mentions, there are printing-specific things you have to become comfortable with, like softproofing and using ICCs for the combinations of paper and printer you use. That aside, I agree with Manfred: avoid extra software and concentrate on the basics. But regardless of that, in the short run, you can get very good prints out of Lightroom with a good bit less work. I'm not arguing that long run, you should do what I am doing, and I am pretty sure that Manfred would say that you shouldn't. Photoshop gives you greater control over resizing and output sharpening, but when I did a test recently, I found no appreciable difference in uprezzing quality, and I have found the output sharpening in LR to be quite good. I've decided not to change, for the most part. It's quite a bit easier, and most of what you learn with Lightroom is fairly easily transferred to Photoshop if you decide to change later. If you are a novice at printing, I recommend that you start with Lightroom, not Photoshop. From a quick look, it does some things that the Adobe software doesn't do, but none of the things I found were things I would do. He clearly knows his stuff, so I looked for descriptions on the Canon website. He prints with a Canon printer (a larger, higher-end Prograf), and he mentioned that he uses a higher-end Canon product, Professional Print and Layout, as a plugin in Photoshop. I recently posted a video by Mitch Boyer, a professional printer, about setting black point compensation. In all this time, the number of times I have used Print Studio Pro is zero. I current print with a Prograf 1000, but I have printed with at least 3 other Canon printers. Unlike Manfred, I print with Canon printers. I am not as experienced a printer as Manfred is, but I have printed a lot over quite a number of years and exhibit my prints.
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