Color Corrections with Printer Driver.

Any thoughts on why my printer "Properties" look different?? Bob Williams

For the last 4 years I have been using PS 5.0 with Win 98SE and a venerable old Epson 740 Color printer. I got great prints that closely matched what I saw on my monitor.
I was able to make the necessary subtle color corrections with my printer software. It allowed me to add or subtract varying amounts of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow to tweak the final color output as needed. I just switched to Win Xp and PS 7.0 but kept the same printer. However, now my Printer "Properties" look different. I can’t find a way to get into an advanced mode that lets me tweak the CMY colors to get my prints to look like my monitor image. Also the prints are paler than with my old setup.
Any thoughts on why my printer "Properties" look different?? Bob Williams

Bob Williams wrote:

For the last 4 years I have been using PS 5.0 with Win 98SE and a venerable old Epson 740 Color printer. I got great prints that closely matched what I saw on my monitor.
I was able to make the necessary subtle color corrections with my printer software. It allowed me to add or subtract varying amounts of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow to tweak the final color output as needed. I just switched to Win Xp and PS 7.0 but kept the same printer. However, now my Printer "Properties" look different. I can’t find a way to get into an advanced mode that lets me tweak the CMY colors to get my prints to look like my monitor image. Also the prints are paler than with my old setup.
Any thoughts on why my printer "Properties" look different?? Bob Williams

Maybe both Photoshop and the driver are handling color management. Make sure only one of them is taking care of color management.
The printer properties might look different, because you are using the standard driver that came with Windows XP. Try to download the most recent driver from the web.

Waldo

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Any thoughts on why my printer "Properties" look different?? Bob Williams

Windows XP has probably set it up with its own drivers… go to Control Panel> Printers & Faxes and see if there are two versions of your Epson 740 printer… Go to Properties>Printing Preferences for each printer… one will show the Preferences you have been seeing and the other will show the Preferences you you want to see… make that the Default Printer.

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Bob Williams wrote:

For the last 4 years I have been using PS 5.0 with Win 98SE and a venerable old Epson 740 Color printer. I got great prints that closely matched what I saw on my monitor.
I was able to make the necessary subtle color corrections with my printer software. It allowed me to add or subtract varying amounts of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow to tweak the final color output as needed. I just switched to Win Xp and PS 7.0 but kept the same printer. However, now my Printer "Properties" look different. I can’t find a way to get into an advanced mode that lets me tweak the CMY colors to get my prints to look like my monitor image. Also the prints are paler than with my old setup.
Any thoughts on why my printer "Properties" look different?? Bob Williams

Maybe both Photoshop and the driver are handling color management. Make sure only one of them is taking care of color management.
The printer properties might look different, because you are using the standard driver that came with Windows XP. Try to download the most recent driver from the web.

Waldo

The printer properties might look different, because you are using the standard driver that came with Windows XP. Try to download the most recent driver from the web.

WALDO is correct
the XP "come with " drivers will make prints but do not have any of the Epson’s driver features.
I have an old 1270 and the XP driver does not show me the ink levels or any advanced choices.
Epson website is very good and has details for installing the correct drivers, do not use the "update driver" from the windows menu.

I had the same problem with my 1270, but there is a utility on the Epson website to add the printer status monitor. Download and install it and you will see the same display as you did before