jona h Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Everything was fine FOR YEARS. Then one day I got ICC meltdown. Printing with MAC, Epson 2200, various ICC profiles from paper makers. I know the drill in the print setup dialogue boxes, BUT, despite all the normal fixes, I get a serious magenta cast on output, be it proof review or hardcopy. It seems that the computer and/or printer are applying color profiles twice! Make it stop. Someone suggested faking the systems out by switching to LAB color and back. It worked, once, then back to old tricks. Reinstalled print driver and various ICCs. Still broken. Worst thing? Sometimes, through sheer divine intervention, prints look great. Then the next day (or hour), uisng EXACTLY the same settings, meltdown. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beauh44 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Hi John, I have a 2200 but not a Mac. The only thing I can come up with is this and it may not be helpful: The first ICC profiles that shipped with the 2200 were *awful*. They weren't even close. Epson later rectified this by putting much more accurate ICC profiles up on their website. So if you possibly replaced your profiles with the original 2200 profiles, this *might* explain your troubles. (The bad profiles gave me a magenta cast too) You didn't mention if you had calibrated your monitor recently or at all. Monitors tend to "drift" over time and many people calibrate their monitors at least once a week. You'll need a colorimeter like a Gretag-Macbeth (although there are much cheaper ones that supposedly do a good job). Lastly, if you're still tearing your hair out, you might try a service like Cathy's Profiles at: http://www.cathysprofiles.com/ She does a great job but will insist that your monitor be calibrated - otherwise all bets are off as to the results. Each profile will run you about $40 and you'll want one for each type of paper you use. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jona h Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 Beau, Thanks for the quick response, but I think this goes beyond calibration. There's monitor calibration and there's monitor calibration. There's "subtle" and then there's Holy ****. This is not a monitor problem. There is a blinding cast that is being injected during the printing process so that both the onscreen print preview and the output are flaming pink. SOMETIMES but not always! I am a meticulous drop-down menu choser and radio button clicker and carefully note settings that produce results. It's just that the recipe isn't working. Poof. Computer non-compliance. I have all the new drivers and ICCs. I have printed a million prints that look great. Then something broke. It's as if the color controls are being applied twice. This is not a mechanical, printer function issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Have you tried trashing your current preferences file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugh_crawford1 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 "It's as if the color controls are being applied twice." That's it exactly. I had the exact problem as you describe with an extreme magenta cast on an Epson 2200. It sound like you are using color management in more than one place, like both photoshop and the printer driver. I don't have an Epson any more but I think I only used the ICC profile in the printer driver and not photoshop. The prints looked good ant the preview looked awful (magenta). I'd look up the settings if I still had the 2200 but I switched to a canon ipf5000 and don't print with photoshop and a printer driver any more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspiration point studio Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Check your ink also just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_sokal___dallas__tx Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 The fact that you get sporadic normal looking prints would seem to take profiles and monitor calibration out of the equation. I wonder, since the 2200 is a little long in the tooth, whether your in the early stage of a hardware failure where some circuit or printer part is blinking out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_clark Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Sounds alot like air bubbles in the loop or something. You might try pulling all the cartridges out, shaking them, and putting them back in for a recharge and see if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian_scholey Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Remember that the Epson driver print profile will have a magenta cast even if the print is OK, its a bug in the driver when using external color management that has never been corrected. It sounds to me that there is a cartridge / ink problem. Can we assume that you have done nozzle checks etc Ian http://profiles.colourperfect.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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