CS5 print dialog missing Epson 7800 profiles

Is there a simple way to get my Epson printer profiles to load onto CS5. I'm normally quite good at solving these things by myself, but this case has me well stumped. Help anyone?

Again: in CS5, the profiles that the driver says belong to the selected printer will show up at the top of the menu. Any custom profiles you have built for that printer will also be in the menu, in the normal alphabetical list.
If there are no profiles at the top, that is because the driver hasn't identified any profiles as belonging to the chosen printer.
If there are no additional profiles listed, that is because there is a problem with how you installed them on the system.
We haven't seen any problems with this yet.

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CS5 Printing to an Epson 1900 What happened?

It worked fine in CS 4 to the Epson just select Adobe RGB as the profile in the Print dialog then do the same in the Epson Drivers now I cannot do that once I have the color management option selected in the photoshop print dialog this is now grayed out in the Epson drivers. I found it the past that the data is not fully passed along to the Epson drivers and you have to also select it in the Epson drivers regardless of the fact tht you had Photoshop managing things.
This is another instance of very poor testing process on the side of Adobe when they have testers all of who are creating their own profiles for their paper leaving the professional photographer to go through hell to get their first good print using Photoshop.
Perhaps it is about time you get testers who actually make their living taking photography rather than testers who sell custom profiles.
What nonsense this is from day one that I first got an epson printer I was told that this works for Adobe and it should work for me but everything that Adobe does is not based on everyday professional photography conditions it is base on lab condition which is nonsense, in a controlled environment.
I printed my images extremely well with the 1900 until I tried today and cannot do what I have been doing before. Make the improvement but it has to work. You spend entirely too much time improving thins that just break what ever was fixed before.
And to Chris Cox or any other Adobe employee this has been the issue every single release since I first purchased Photoshop 5, not one time has Adobe not left the user to fend for themselves after they have broken their workflow.
It is time to stop and get to work. This really stinks.
BTW I have my worked reproduced world wide and have very consistent results in Magazines and Books and print to Digital CPrints all the time without any issues.
Adobe your testing team stinks they should have been screaming about this nonsense. Now I have to either print from CS 4 or find a work around.
The fact that many users are using other programs to print is testimony of this failure. it is about time you not prove how smart you are and just make a reasonable work flow.
I seldom complain here but this is just too much it would be please=ant to see one time where this was not an issue.

I agree this whole issue is confusing. I have been on the issue (proper printer driver behavior and proper application behavior) using Apple's new print path for a few years now, so I will try to make an attempt to clear up as much confusion as possible.
If drivers and applications are working (written) properly this is how it is supposed to work.
When printer manages color is selected in an application print dialog then all functions of the printer driver are available.
When applications manages color is selected then Color Matching is grayed out defaulted to ColorSync, and the property written print driver defaults to No Color Adjustment (Epson) or No Color Correction (Canon).
See attached examples of both Epson 9600 driver version 8.19 and Canon iPF driver version 2.14.
Epson can and has definitely gotten it right with their latest drivers.
Canon on the other hand uses a special case file (AppColorMatchingInfo.xml) which list the applications that use Apple's new printing path. New application like Photoshop CS5 will need to be added to this file or the driver will default to color management when application manages color is chosen which results in double profiling.
I see nothing that indicates to me that neither Apple or Adobe have problems or bugs in this printflow. Only drivers (and old drivers) that are not written correctly for Apple's new printing path seem to have these problems with double profiling. That being said, do I agree with Apple's approach regarding the new print path? NO. It appear to be an attempt to idiot proof printing using application manages color printing, although it is claimed to be necessary for 64-bit applications. I personally would prefer to use the old print path (like still available in Indesign) where all options are available in the driver regardless of what CM setting I choose in the application print dialog. But it is what it is.
Doyle

The ability to output halftones (separations) and set screen angles, etc., from the CS5 print dialog

I output films from photoshop that are used to expose silkscreens. often, i output halftones and up until CS5 i've done this from the print dialog where i can also set my screen angles and dot shapes, press print and off it goes to my printer. It has been suggested to me in the photoshop macintosh forum that i might simply build a script to convert the individual channels to bitmaps at the printer resolution, angle, shape and then print that. unfortunately, this method results in less accurate screens and fails to take advantage of what my postscript printer can do. this is the only reason i have a postscript capable printer. i used this workaround method before i bought the postcript printer and the results just weren't very good.
my workaround is to keep CS3 installed and print from that. this is a hassle and less than optimal. i was quite surprised to find that this "feature" which has been available in photoshop for many years suddently disappeared. please give some thought to bringing it back. i expect that i'm not the only shop that's going to miss it.
you can see some commentary on this in the ps mac forum. look for "setting line screen in CS5."
kenb

Hey Ken, I personally haven't used that feature in years but it was
very useful when printing separations for t-shirts so I feel for ya. I
noticed it's still in CS4 if that helps. Also, you may try
experimenting with the following filters:
RGB FILES:
Filter > Sketch > Halftone Pattern
RGB or CMYK FILES:
Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone
GRAYSCALE FILES:
Image > Mode > Bitmap > Method > Halftone Screen
Also, InDesign allows you to print custom screen angles and line
rulings but not dot shape.
Good luck!
Terry

Photoshop CS5 print dialog

I am trying to print with my new 27" imac i7 (G5 forced upgrade), Snow Leopard, Epson 4000, Epson Driver 8.19 and Pshop CS5 and having a weird thing occur. In the past (CS4 on G5) I have always gone into the Pshop print dialog box and shrunk the image and repositioned it to run sequential test, same sheet before I make the larger print version. The old G5 would send the image to the printer the epson 4000 would load the paper move it the the correct location print the small area and spit out the paper. Now I send, it the printer loads the paper and as if you are printing the whole sheet image the head moves the entire width and length of the sheet but only lays down ink to where I designated in the dialog box. So the test takes as long as a full size print. Any ideas whats up?
Thanks
Bob Barry

No, no presets but you can record the settings in an action. The action can record printer, printer settings and color management settings.

CS3 and printing to an Epson 7800 (Mac OS10.5)

I have an Epson 7800 printer. With Photoshop CS3 not all the print setting choices are available(after hitting "Print" from the first, new Print Dialog window). I get the new Print Dialog window, but when I hit Print and then try and choose Print Settings or Color Management (for example) they are all crossed out. When will an update be available that corrects this? Right now I have to access printing thru CS2 so that I can set everything as needed; in particular, turning off the printers Color Management! As a further note, on the Epson 7600 everything is available via CS3 and the new print dialog window--there is no problem. Again, the problem seems to stem from CS3 plus the Epson 7800. Thanks.

I had this problem in April 07. Wish I wrote down how I solved it because I upgraded to Leopard and have the same problem with the lines running through color management etc in the print dialog box. I found one guy on the Mac helpline who knew the answer. It was a simple fix.

Scripting Print Dialog and Epson Print Dialog - Consultant Required

I have a project I would like to pay a Scripting Consultant to develop.
The script should run on Photoshop CS 3 , Mac OS Leopard 10.5.6,
I would like the script to be preferrably in Applescript to link with the Mac OS, but it can be Javascript
Functionality
1. The script should script the settings within the Photoshop print dialog box such as the colour profile
and colour management options
2. I would also like the script to control the Epson Print Settings in the Epson print dialog
boxes such as the Page Size/Set Up and Printer settings such as paper type= Epson Premium Glossy.
3. Finally I would like the script to be triggered via a button/palette which floats in Photoshop, so immediately we want to print
a design to a particular Epson printer (we have 4 different Epson printers ) we can click that button and it will
send the print to that printer with the correct profile, media settings, page set up etc
Notes
I have been told that "Configurator" made be the best application to create these printer buttons.
I have also been told that it may be possible to script the Epson Dialog using information from the Script Listener
As you can tell I am not a scripter but have a clear idea of what is required and am happy to pay for the experitise required here.
If you want to email directly please do so -
[email protected]
Thanks very much
Josh

I have been told that "Configurator" made be the best application to create these printer buttons.
But Configurator is for CS4.
I’m not sure the print-dialog can be Scripted the way You want it; at the company where I work we use a Server-Hotfolder-setup which makes such things easier, as one can simply save separated copies into the respective Folders.
You could also post on http://www.ps-scripts.com/
Many of the most knowledgeable contributors to this Forum are involved in that Forum.

Saving Photoshop CS5 Print dialog box presets or defaults?

This question was asked in 2008 for PS CS3 with no answer, so I will ask it again...
OS 10.6.4
Using Canon iPF 5100 and 6100 printers
CS 5 Photoshop
Is there a way to set a preset in the PS Print dialog window for 'Photoshop manages color' and the ICC profile so that I do not have to reset them every time I print?
Also, where does PS pull the information for the printers pop-up menu near the top of the Print dialog box? Is this a preset or is it just pulling these printer names from the OS? I ask this because when I switch between one of the iPF printers, the Print > Color Management section defaults back to 'Printer Manages Color' and greys out the profile pop-up menu.
Thanks.

No, no presets but you can record the settings in an action. The action can record printer, printer settings and color management settings.

InDesign CS5 - Print Dialog does not load (windows).

I just installed InDesign CS5 and when I go to print a document, the print dialog does not come up. I only get an hourglass cursor. When I try to export to a PDF the resulting PDF is 0kb and obviously corrupt.
What do I do to fix this?

Don't have a clue about the print dialog, but you may be unaware that PDF export is now a background task and you may be trying to open the PDF before it's finished. To check the progress go to Window > Utilities > Background Tasks.
There are some reports of the background task stalling in certain cases. This is a bug, Adobe is aware of it, and a solution is in the works, but no definite inopfrmation on a release date for the fix is available. If you search the forum you'll find a couple of threads discussing it, including a link to a script to do the export inthe foreground if necessary.
For the print problem, you can try Replace Your Preferences, but I'm not hightly optimisitic that this is a prefs issue. It would help if you told us about the OS and your printer, and what language you installed. Have you updated to 7.0.2?

Print dialog missing

I'm running Lightroom 5.2 with OSX 10.8.5 on a Mac Pro with 14 Gigs of RAM.
The first time I click the Print button in the Print module, I get -- as expected -- the OSX print dialog for paper type, etc.
However, if I don't change images and click the Print button again, the Print dialog does NOT appear, and the print job proceeds as normal. In past versions of Lightroom, the print dialog always appears for every print job from Lightroom.
Is this a bug? Or is there some new option/feature that I've overlooked?
Thanks,
Dave

I just tried reinstalling the latest update and it didn't seem to help. Is there anything else I could try that is a little less severe than a complete OS reinstall?

Print Dialog Missing Text, Icons

For the last few months my print dialog has been pretty screwy looking:
Anyone have a clue what is going on here?

I just tried reinstalling the latest update and it didn't seem to help. Is there anything else I could try that is a little less severe than a complete OS reinstall?

CS5 printer issues with Epson R2400

Upgraded (????) to CS5
Win7-64, Photoshop CS5 - 64 & 32, Epson R2400 (Epson Easy Photo Print v1.51 Drivers)
CS5 will not print multiple copies. Can change it in printer settings, makes no difference.
CS5 will not allow me to change orientation to landscape. Have to go to printer settings. Will not stick. have to change it everytime I want to print the same file.
CS5 will lose the printer. Have to change the printer then change it back. "because the printer does not exist" is the error message. (Not even a complete sentence!)
Printer profile will not stick.
These issues did not occur with CS4.

You need the 6.5dAs drivers from http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?oid=54861&infoType=Downloads
The copies issue is a known problem. Sorry about that. But the other problems are not things we saw when testing with those drivers.

Photoshop CS5 Mac Printer dialog

I cannot get a printer dialog window for any printer that I have tried ( Epson or HP). When I choose "Print" or type Command P the Photoshoop printing dialog comes up (choice of printer, page setup, Color Management etc), but on clicking Print not printer dialog appears, and a print is made. I am unable to choose any of the options normally available for the printer. I am working on a 27" iMac, and I still have CS4 installed. (Thank goodness! I can use it to print in contrast to CS5.)
Any suggestions?

Laurie
I'm not sure that I understand the source of your problem with the Epson profiles, but I don't think that it has anything to do with having both versions, CS4 and CS5 being installed on the same machine. Having them both running at the same time might cause some problem both I don't know what that would be.
What is always more perplexing is the location of the Epson profiles. The Epson driver software, for whatever the reason, installs the standard profiles for its papers in a "package" located in Hard Disk Name > Library> Printers > Epson > Inkjet Printer>ICC Profiles> Pro38.profiles. You cannot discover this by doing a search of your Mac. Once you have navigated to the "package" however, you can view its contents by holding down the Control key, clicking on the package and choosing Show Package Contents. After then navigating down to Resources you will discover the 3800 profiles all named Pro38...
Why Epson chooses to hide its profiles in a "bushel basket" I have no idea but, the profiles should be discoverable by CS4 or CS5 or any other program that uses ColorSync. I suppose that you could do the following safe experiment if you do find the package and the contents are as described. Make an alias of the package (or one of each of the individual profiles) and put the alias(es) in your usual ColorSync folder. That ought to work and reveal to you the profiles that you want to use in CS5. It should also prevent any interference with whatever peculiar scheme Epson has for hiding the profiles in the first place.
And just to make matters a little more confusing (!) if you download and install any of Epson's custom profiles these will go into a folder named Epson Stylus Pro 3800 and this folder in turn will be found in Hard Disk Name > Library > Color Sync > Profiles.
I hope that is helpful.
Finally, the problem I had was simply that I did not realize that Adobe had changed the printing routine but incorporating access to the printer dialog into its own Print dialog window. where it used to say Page Setup it now says Print Settings{!}, and in the Print Settings dialog it now says Save rather than Print. So the final say on actually getting the printer to print is in the CS5 printing dialog window - not in the Epson printer dialog. And why did they do that? Well .. if you're going to sell an upgrade you have to make some changes, and if you can do it - why not?

Need to upgrade, concerned about running epson 7800 from 10.6

My G5 is dying, and might have to get a new Mac Pro. Does anyone know if I'll be able to use my existing icc profiles in CS2 on Snow Leopard, to print on an Epson 7800? I have print editions in progress, and need to be able to continue working in the same color environment.
Can I possibly get a new Mac and run 10.5.8 on it instead of 10.6?

cjsadlon wrote:
My G5 is dying, and might have to get a new Mac Pro. Does anyone know if I'll be able to use my existing icc profiles in CS2 on Snow Leopard, to print on an Epson 7800?
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
Epson's Web site does list a driver for OS X 10.6 for that printer. In addition, this Apple page
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#epson
does mention a "Gutenprint" driver.
Can I possibly get a new Mac and run 10.5.8 on it instead of 10.6?
No. In general, a Mac can't run a version of OS X older than the one that first shipped with it. However, you could buy a used Mac that runs OS X 10.5.8. MacTracker (http://mactracker.dreamhosters.com/) will give you information of the version of OS X that was current for each model.

PC prints to Epson 7800 good from CS5- bad from Lightroom

I run a small govt photolab. I am on a network running the whole CS5 suite. Printing from photshop using the default setting everying comes out roughly the way it looks on the screen.
Printing from Lightroom the colors are way off, or they're flat. I've tried different, including one from the paper manufacturere (Ilford) No luck.
We are not very sophisticated here. This is not fine art printing and we don't use any kind of calibration. But when i had a Mac everything went from the screen to the print accuratly.
I've tried converting to JPEG first along with a few other random efforts, but I'm not making any progress.
Thanks
Dave

A few questions (or skip to the para below):
Do you start with jpeg or raw? If jpeg, what colour space?
What working space is set in Photoshop - is it sRGB?
Are your monitors colour-managed (calibrated and profiled with hardware colorimiters)?
Are your printers capable of colour management - do they take account of the profile of the image being printed - or alternatively do you colour-manage from Lightroom and Photoshop, and have the driver set to be colour management aware but also set so that the driver knows that the program is doing the colour management?
If you're not sure of the answers to these questions, then try this: print from Lightroom, but in the Color Management panel (bottom right of print module) set the profile to sRGB (or sRGB IEC61966-2.1 or similar). Does that make a difference? Does it now print images the same as Photoshop?
If setting a profile of sRGB IEC... makes a difference, then the reason for the problems is probably that the printer doesn't recognise image profiles (or has colour-management turned off). Lightroom always uses ProPhoto colour space as its Working Space. If you print and select the profile as "managed by printer", then Lightroom sends the image to the printer in ProPhoto colour space. If the printer can't colour manage (doesn't recognise and act on embedded profiles) then ProPhoto images will look very flat and desaturated.
If it looks OK in Photoshop, I'm guessing you've got the Working Space set to sRGB (Edit menu, color settings, and top line in the "Working Spaces" box near the top of the dialogue).
If printing in LR using sRGB profile fixes the problem, then job done, but it also suggests you might not be using colour management in the printers, so you might do better with colour-mangement in the printers and appropriate profiles and calibrated and profiled monitors.
PS - just noticed you're using Epson 7800 printers which I'm sure are capable of colour-management, but I guess you may not be using colour-management (that is, not specifying a printer profile and enabling colour-management, which defaults off in Epson printers).

Photoshop CS5 Print Printing problem: print count and print to ICC profile

Since Adobe still haven't acknowledge the printing issue with CS5, I start this thread to report my own problems.
Problem 1:
print copy count is not working. The first print is always one print regardless how many copies you set in the dialog window. The next print will actually print the copies set in the previous print job.
This is a well documented problem, and until today no fix. I am not too worried about this problem because I can always print one copy each time to get job done, until the day Adobe acknowledge and fix the problem.
Problem 2:
when I let the Photoshop manage color and print to a custome ICC profile (generated by Spyer3Print), Photoshop RANDOMLY decides to print a light colored magenta cast picture. It's like Photoshop has used the wrong ICC. Now every time I print a 13x19, I have to pray. Because this thing is so random, I can't even reproduce the problem consistantly.
here's the information about my system:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit (not a fresh system) with 8GB RAM. Printer drivers installed: Canon Pro9000II, Canon MP600, Epson 1400.
I experience problem 2 after I installed CS5 with Epson 1400 printer, but not too frequent. Later on I installed drivers for Epson R1800, Epson R2400, and I mainly print with R2400. All the printer drivers, software updates are the lastest available.
I was a software developer. I wrote windows application before. I am pretty sure the problem is with CS5 based on my knowledge. If I wrote an Windows application that crashs Windows or another party's appliction, I certainly would not blame Microsoft or another party for not writing a bulletproof system. I would try to find a workaround in my own application. That's just my take. Adobe may have different mind set. They are still pointing finger to MS and Epson.

I don't condone the problems, but a workaround I've recently read about for the copy count problem is to do the following, in order:
1. Set the copy count you want.
2. Click the Print Settings... button to enter the printer driver setup dialog.
3. [OK] out.
4. Print
This is reported to get the proper copy count into the print driver and make it "stick". I just tried it and it seems to work.
Keep in mind you may want to go through this again after printing to get the copy count to default back to 1 for the next print.
-Noel

CS5 print dialog missing Epson 7800 profiles

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