If you haven’t already read the following excellent article on color management, you might want to give it a try. It may give you some good tips on how to set up PS to work with your profiles, etc. The other color management related tutorials on the same site are really good and may give you some further insight.
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when I go into the printer I select the proper paper, select select ICM off but the prints are terrible. I don’t mean the color is not quite as it looks in my monitor, it is realy way off. So there must be a big problem with my color management.
Go into "Print With Preview", click on Color Management, select "document", and "Let Printer Determine Colors" with either Relative Colorimetric or Perceptual intent, whichever looks better.
I suggest setting your print driver to PhotoEnhance mode as well, to ensure that your profile is not goofy. Once that is working, change your printer to use ICM, and specify the particular profile you want to use.
Mike Russell
Thanks, Mike. However, I am trying to use a color profile I developed for my printer and paper. I am quite sure the profile is OK, and I double checked by using the Epson Color Profile for Premium Glossy Paper. I clicked IMC and turned off color management, but with both profiles it looks like both the printer and Photoshop and both applying color management because of the heavy blues and reds and no yellows and greens. It’s so far off there must be a major conflict. I even deleted and reinstalled the latest printer drivers for my Epson stylus photo R800. I jhave also asked Epson about this but lord knows when they will get back to me. Any other suggestions?
" set US prepress in the view color settings window," ? What this is doing in the process, I don’t know. I can’t even find a "View color settings" in CS.
1)Select in the Advanced driver- ICM mode "No color adjustment", and setup the paper and resolution just like it was when you created the profile.
2)In Print Preview, select the media profile that you created as the Print Space Profile .
3)Hopefully, the source document space is Document : AdobeRGB or a decent RGB colorspace.
How does this print ?
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Brent
Thanks to all–I am embarassed to say that I did not check the most obvious thing first. I had purchased some color ink from an non-Epson brand (Carrot). Despite their claims, it worked OK at first, but when I replaced all the Carrot cartridges with Epson, my photos printed fine. Those warnings about using off-brand ink from Epson are true, I guess. But I learned a lot about color management thanks to all the posters here. Now off to Epson web site to buy more ink.
It’s so far off there must be a major conflict. I even deleted and reinstalled the latest printer drivers for my Epson stylus photo R800. I jhave also asked Epson about this but lord knows when they will get back to me. Any other suggestions?
The complete lack of yellow and green may indicate that you are out of yellow ink. Run Nozzle Check.
If that works, break things into small steps. First set up with PhotoEnhance4 or sRGB. When that looks good, move over to your profile.
BTW, I think doing the color management in the printer driver is easier to control and configure, but Brent’s suggested setup is fine as well.
Mike Russell
Thanks, Mike, I did run Nozzle check and it was clogged in yellow, but after that is was still printing funny. I replaced the Carrot INk with Epson and now it is perfect. So much for those cheaper inks.
