First start at Ian Lyons’ most excellent site on Color Management <
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps7-colour/ps7_1.htm>. It should take you about 15 minutes to get through it. Once you verify that you’re ‘set up’ correctly, you should be able to print pert near WYSIWYG.
Peace,
Tony
Tony,
I did the setup as recommended but I still get a red cast. I even reinstalled Photoshop 7 and it still occurs.
Bob
Robert – the print preview isn’t color managed (it was intended for placment only), it won’t look exactly like the print.
If the prints still have a color cast, then you’ve missed something in the instructions on Ian’s web site.
Robert,
You might do a printing nozzle check. A partly clogged Cyan nozzle might be creating your problem.
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Brent
I have exactly the same problem – Print preview in Photoshop’s fine, press print (with printer set to show preview before printing) and it places a reddy-brown wash over the image (and only the image). This is nothing to do with a blocked nozzle and does transfer to the final printout – thats how i noticed the problem in the first place. I have read a couple of other posts about similar problems – one lady had a blue wash – and all involve Epson printers so somethings wacky between Photoshop and the Epson drivers I feel. I have an Epson Sylus C62. I’ve played around with the Colour Management to no avail. Only happens in Photoshop – all my other image and other progs print out fine.
Occurs with 7.0 and 7.0.1
Would like an answer to this as I’m having to import my images into other programs as it stands to print them.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
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Ian’s site www.computer-darkroom.com is highly recommended. I have had one clogged ink that was easily fixed that caused a magenta cast. I have also had one day where the prints came out magenta after I upgraded to PS CS that went away after I upgraded the printer driver from www.epson.com site. Maybe it was just a poltergeist, but everything works fine now. Ian’s site gives lots of options. I would pick using print with preview, setting file source as whatever it is (I use Adobe RGB), Printer source as the correct printer profile, and printer properties as no colour management. That works best for me.
I finally remidied the problem by un-installing Photoshop 7.0 and re-installing. It finally cleared up my problem. Good luck.
Robert
Makes me wonder if the AdobeRGB profile hadn’t been overwritten ( probably in the Adobe Gamma process ) .
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Brent
I’ve updated the drivers and uninstalled/reinstalled Photoshop to no avail but it’s nice to know that someone has had the problem and sorted it. I’ll try again see if it makes any difference.
I’ll run through the links and try the above suggestions. Thanks a lot guys.
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I ran through all the settings in Ians article, testing as I went, and managed to sort it by setting Proof to my printer. Not sure if that should have done it as I’m under the impression that the Proof set-up only effects how you see it on screen but there ya go. The reddy-brown wash is gone in both the printer print preview and from the resultant prints so that will do me. Thanks for everyones help.
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Steve,
You’re correct in that Soft Proofing isn’t designed for actual printing. I believe that your best output space profile would be "Same as Source" in this case, allowing no color translations other than what you already see on your display. Please correct me , if I’m mistaken.
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Brent
I would not use "Same as Source". I use view>proof> and select the printer icc with paper white and black point both selected. I use Adobe RGB as workspace, usually Adobe RGB as file space (after converting things like Nikon Adobe RGB to Adobe RGB), do not use print proof, but select printer icc space, and turn all printer property colour mgt off. Depending on out of gamut areas, I use perceptual or relative colormetric for rendering intent.
And when you finally get the printer settings correct for that paper, SAVE them as a preset.
Bill
