Odd printing/profile problem

[steve_tagupa]

I've been helping a friend of mine with her printing because she has

an Epson R1800 like me. When she prints, I've noticed that she sets

her printer profile to "R1800 Standard" rather than the canned

porfile for the paper she's using. As it turns out, if she uses the

appropriate profile, the colors come out wrong. Using the "R1800

Standard" profile gives her exactly the colors she sees on the

screen. This is different from my setup, which uses the appropriate

profile. Her settings are as follows:

 

Colorspace: Adobe 1998

Printer Profile: Epson R1800 Standard

Rendering Intent: Relative Colormetric with black point compensation

turned on.

 

Driver Settings>Print Settings

Paper: Epson Premium Glossy

Mode: Advanced

Print Quality: Best Photo (High Speed Off)

GLOP: On

 

Driver Settings>Color Management

Color Controls are on, but she made no adjustments to the sliders

 

 

With these settings, her prints look just fine. I should note that

she's using an Powermac G5, in fact her setup is almost exactly the

same as mine except she's got an older machine with slower

processors. She's told me that she calibrates her monitor, but does

not have custom profiles for her R1800. What's going on here?

[marc_rochkind]

I can't tell from your post whether you and she are using a printing app that does color

management (e.g., Photoshop CS2, Photoshop Elements 3+), but, if you are, the settings

for both of you are wrong. You should not be using color management in the driver--you

should let Photoshop (or whatever) determine colors, and the driver's color management

should be off. And, I would also suggest that you both use the "icc" color profile for

premium glossy.

 

Set up properly, it would be interesting to see if you and she are still getting different

results.

 

This would then be the identical setup that I use (same printer, same paper), and my prints

are an exact match for the screen. (Screen is calibrated with a hardware device, and prints

are viewed under an Ott-Lite.)

 

--Marc

[steve_tagupa]

Hi Marc,

 

The thing is, I do have the color management turned off in the printer driver, exactly like how

the Epson manual recommends, and my prints match with what's on my monitor. If I do this

on her setup, the colors print out strangely. It's like she needs to have her in printer

management on, which is exactly the opposite of what it should be. Weird...