horrid green prints

[nagle]

I've been successfully been printing B&Ws on my epson 1290, with permajet

monochrome pro inks/paper, and Photoshop 7. I've recently been trying to print

in colour using Epson ink and Epson (or Jessops paper) and the result are

abominable. As I understand it;

 

On the printer panel - no colour control

 

Photoshop setting - Epson 1290 profile (should I alter this?)

 

(embedded profile of the photo is adobeRGB)

 

My monitor is set up by eye, but very well I think to gamma 2.2, following many

websites advice about blackpoint etc.

 

I get better results by using the colour controls, but not brilliant.

 

I have spent ages searching for answers online to little effect. Should I give

up and stick to mono in future, buy a Screen profiler (Huey etc)or have any of

you wonderful people had this problem and got over it?

[wing8]

I would try a profile for permajet pro inks.

[kiro]

i would get a calibration kit (e.g. the huey you mention). even though i don't do my own

printing, i instruct my print house not to modify color or tone correctness, and the results

come back exactly as what i have on screen. once you get it set right, it's been my

experience that it's 100% reliable

[charlesheckel]

You didn't talk about the results of printing a test page on your printer, so I can't rule out something as dumb and obvious as a clogged nozzle, which would produce the cast you describe. You may have a munged printer driver, which could be reloaded on the Epson downloads site. Check the PS 7 printer settings thoroughly, including those in the configuration section--there are a lot of gotchas. The most obvious concern is whether there is some residual contamination in your print head from the Permajet inks. If so, printing a test image with squares of clean cardinal tones--red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta--should show what's wrong.

[rnt]

Try setting up an RGB file with a gray background- R:128, G:128, B:128. Then print it. If the print is still green, it's not a monitor issue. BTW, I had issues with color casts with my 1270 until I found some custom profiles for the Epson line of papers.