Epson 3800 help pls

When printing with an Epson Pro 3800 and using CS4, when I click on print a window opens. Under the photo of what I am printing are 3 check squars. The first on says "Match print colors". My question is what does this do? Any input will be greatly appreciated.
Al

Rick -
No, this is not a new driver. As per the Epson description I posted, this driver was made available on 9/18/08. If you read it carefully, the blurb also indicates the driver (technically ver. 6.11), is compatible with SL.
I'm out of my pricey Epson paper but I just ran a test using some old Heavyweight Matte I had laying around. Seems to print fine and produced a fairly accurate print - especially considering I used a mismatched Epson canned profile.
When you install SL, you have the option to install Rosetta - I did but as far as I know, nothing is running through Rosetta during the print process. The installer file has the option to run through Rosetta with Get Info, but I didn't enable it.
I installed SL the same way I always install a new OS - on a (wiped), test drive keeping my production drive completely in tact. I install apps from scratch and configure everything a little at a time. If I run into problems, my production system is a reboot away - no bleeding edge here. :-)
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PHOTOSHOP AND EPSON 3800, HELP!!

I bought a Epson Stylus 3800 4 months ago, everything was working perfectly, but since 2 weeks (I don't remember doing something special) when I print an image this dialog box appear just when use the button PRINT "Some postscript specific settings (Interpolation, calibration, encoding) will be ignored since you are printing to a non-postscript printer". And now my photos are darker and the colors looks awful. I have an exibition in two months and this is a nightmare... Someone having an idea???

Rick -
No, this is not a new driver. As per the Epson description I posted, this driver was made available on 9/18/08. If you read it carefully, the blurb also indicates the driver (technically ver. 6.11), is compatible with SL.
I'm out of my pricey Epson paper but I just ran a test using some old Heavyweight Matte I had laying around. Seems to print fine and produced a fairly accurate print - especially considering I used a mismatched Epson canned profile.
When you install SL, you have the option to install Rosetta - I did but as far as I know, nothing is running through Rosetta during the print process. The installer file has the option to run through Rosetta with Get Info, but I didn't enable it.
I installed SL the same way I always install a new OS - on a (wiped), test drive keeping my production drive completely in tact. I install apps from scratch and configure everything a little at a time. If I run into problems, my production system is a reboot away - no bleeding edge here. :-)
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Color printing shift in Epson 3800 & InDesign CS5

Somebody please help!
I wrote about this once before and have been looking for a thread to help me figure out why I am having so much trouble printing from my Epson 3800, since I upgraded to CS5. The issue is specific to InDesign and Acrobat. I have the identical settings from CS4, but when I print, the colors look faded. I have tried exporting the files to PDF (for high quality print) and then printing from Acrobat and I get the same result.
the two things that are different are the Mac OSX (Snow Leopard, used to be Leopard) and CS5. All other setting are exactly the same.
If I open the pdf in photoshop, this isn't a problem, so what has happened?
I would be so grateful to hear from anybody experiencing this problem.
Thanks so much!
sharon

In and of itself, synching settings in bridge won't have an effect on output, and won't affect existing docs unless your policy settings are to convert to the working space or you do it manually (neither of which are necessarily a good idea in all situations). Nor do we have any indication that this is a profile mismatch problem.
Without a lot more information about working profiles, whether they're already synchronized, driver settings, whether transparency is involved, and the patch levels of both ID and OS X I hesitiate to speculate on where the problem might be. There have been a lot of problems with printing from CS5 on OS X 10.6, but most seem to be worked around by exporting to PDF, which seems not to be the case here, so a lot more information would be beneficial.

Prints too dark on Mac )S 10.6 with Epson 3800

All prints are too dark with Photoshop 6 using Epson 3800 on IMac OS 10.6 ; Help?

what workflow
are you using 16-bit options in the print menus (don't)
this has been covered here and on the web many times...
http://www.gballard.net/photoshop/epson/cs6/

Problem printing with Epson 3800 and Photoshop CS5

I came across a problem trying to print with my Epson 3800 in Photoshop CS5. I recently upgraded to Photoshop CS 5 (and Lightroom 3). I tried to print using my Epson 3800 with CS5 but could not adjust Print Settings, Color Mamagement, Paper Configuration, Expand Border because those options are unavailable and there is a line crossing through them. I get a message that says "The bundle 'Print Setting' could not be loaded because it does not contain a version for the current architecture". It then says to contact the creator listed here for the latest version: PrintSetting version 3.57, Copyright SEIKO EPSON CRP 2001-2006. I can print through Photoshop CS4 as usual, but CS5 is a problem. I haven't tried printing though Lightroom 3 yet, and have not typically used Lightroom to print, but I wonder if that will be a problem too?
Any help will be appreciated.

If you run CS5 or LR as a 32bit application you will have all these option available to you. You can then save these options as presets that can then be applied when you are running the applications in 64bit mode even if you can not access them individually.
Also you might want to check Epson's download site especially the European site to see if there are newer drivers or updates for your printer. The newest drivers for other printers like the 7600/9600 support application running in 64bit mode.
Doyle

LR3 wont print to Epson 3800 on Mac OSX 10.5.8

I have never been able to print through the print module ever since upgrading to LR3. I have an Epson 3800 on a MacPro running 10.5.8.
I have absolutely no problems printing through Photoshop CS5. Beautiful results! NOTHING from Lightroom: Very frustrated! Any help, suggestions
greatly appreciated! - Craig

What happens when you try to print, any error messages?
Have you tried printing in Draft Mode (check the box in the Print Job panel)?
What settings are you using to print with?
Both my Macs print to my 3800 perfectly, I am on 10.6.5 though - have you considered upgrading?

Print output not as wide as it should be (CS5 on Epson 3800)

I'm having problems printing (to an Epson 3800) on 17x25 paper (the image is 16x24 @ 240dpi). The image is not printing the full width of that it should. The odd thing is that it fills a different width every time I try to print it. I have tried multiple images and the same thing happens, so I do NOT think it is something specific to the image.
I suspect it is a problem with my printer. But after spending almost 45 minutes on the phone with Epson, they claim is must be a problem with PS (I'm using CS5 [12.0.4] on Windows Vista 64-bit, SP 2 machine). Epson support had me save the image as a JPG and print it from Windows native print util (and not PS), borderless on 17x25 paper and the printer was able to print the full width of the paper...they thus concluded it was not a problem with the printer...but I'm not so sure, I think it could still be a problem with their printer driver (and not a problem with the print head physically not being able to move that wide).
I've printed hundreds of prints this size with this version of CS5 on this exact same machine and printer and never had a problem bef
The "native" dimensions of the image are 2336 x 3504. I have resized it to 3864 x 5796 (which is 16.1 x 24.15 inches @ 240dpi). The first time I printed it (where this problem occurred), it printed about 12 inches wide; the 2nd time about 11 inches, the 3rd time about 13 inches. Note: the image is NOT being scaled, it is printing at full size but it just being cut off.
The weird thing is that if I size it to any of the other 4 sizes I regularly print at everything is fine (5 x 7.5 on 5.67 x 8.33 paper; 8 x 12 on 8.5 x 12.5 paper, 10 x 15 on 11 x 17 paper and 12 x 18 on 13 x 19 paper).
My first suspicion was that their was a physical problem that was preventing the print head from moving that wide. But the experiment the Epson tech had me do shows that the print head is not "blocked". Thus, I can only think that there is either: a) CS5 is someone putting an incorrect "bounding box" in bit stream it is sending to the printer or b) there is a problem with the Epson print driver in that it is interpreting the "bounding box" of the image incorrectly (but only when sized at 3864 x 5796).what m
Does anyone have any ideas about what might be causing this or how I could fix it? I have a customer waiting for prints (that they've already paid for!). Let me know if there is any further information I need to supply in order to further diagnose.
p.s. I tried Adobe's Chat support and got nowhere and the hold time for phone support is over 2 hours...so I thought I'd try here

, Well, I finally got thru to phone support. They told me they couldn't help me because I hadn't updated to CS6. If I wanted them to help me I would have to pay them :-( I asked to speak to a supervisor because has never been the their policy before (I got phone support on CS3 as recently as 6 months ago without being asked to pay for it). After yelling at the supervisor, he agreed to transfer me back to the 1st-level support person and instructed him to try some simple diagnosis and if that didn't solve my problem then I would have to pay for more support.
The 1st-level support told me to:
1) quit PS
2) remove the Adobe Photoshop X64 CS5 Prefs.psp file from C:\Users\[my username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Adobe Photoshop CS5 Settings (path may be different depending on your version of windows)
3) restart PS
4) open/resize and print my image
low and behold, that solved my problem! I'm happy! And I didn't have to pay for it!
I still don't know exactly what the problem was, but somehow a corrupted preferences file was at fault.
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Can't get correct Print Dialog options when installing Epson 3800

Hi,
I am certainly not an expert at Mac OS. I have exhausted all my options on getting the Epson 3800 driver installed correctly. I am very thankful for any help since I have been working on this issue for 4 days.
I connected my Epson 3800 to my PowerPC via USB. The proper driver shows up on the "About this Mac" window under printers. I added the printer through the "Print & Fax" option. I select to use the 3800 printer option for the Selected Printer for the Print Dialog. However, when I use print in any application (Text Edit, Photoshop CS3) I only have the following options available in the pulldown below the Presets box:
Copies & Pages
Layout
Scheduler
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Summary
I have no PDF button available on the panel. I should have about 3-4 more items on the list (e.g. Print Settings). Also the driver being used doesn't show up on Print Dialog.
I can get different settings with my cheap HP Officejet 4300 All-in-one printer.
I've reinstalled the OS a couple times. I've reinstalled the driver many times. Sometimes there is a Epson USB option available from the More Printers button in Add Printers and sometimes not. I've also tried installing with Ethernet and got the same result - shorter Print Dialog options.
I have printed to the printer without using any advanced options. However, this greatly limits the capabilities. The printer appears to be talking to the computer - I can get ink levels displayed on the screen.
I've been walked through the setup process by Epson technical support twice but they were stumped. Looking for any suggestions or areas to investigate. I'm really baffled and I've spent hours on it.

The PPD File version is listed as 1.0
I tried the safe boot option. You weren't kidding about taking a while. I thought my Mac was trying to take off with all the fan noise. :o) However, it still didn't work - no PDF button.
I did the printer utility reset but that didn't seem to work either.
I tried the shareware you recommened. However I got the same result. Perhaps I should restart? This is the output from it:
+The file /private/etc/cups/classes.conf is missing. This file is deleted when using the Reset Printing System option.+
+The file /private/etc/cups/printers.conf is missing. This file is deleted when using the Reset Printing System option.+
+The permissions for the directory /var/root/Library/Printers are incorrect!+
+They are drwxr-xr-x, but should be drwx------+
Repaired.
+The permissions for the file /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/High Quality Print.joboptions are incorrect!+
+They are -rwxrwxr-x, but should be -rw-rw-r--+
Repaired.
+The permissions for the file /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/PDFX1a 2001.joboptions are incorrect!+
+They are -rwxrwxr-x, but should be -rw-rw-r--+
Repaired.
+The permissions for the file /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/PDFX3 2002.joboptions are incorrect!+
+They are -rwxrwxr-x, but should be -rw-rw-r--+
Repaired.
+The permissions for the file /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/PDFX4 2007.joboptions are incorrect!+
+They are -rwxrwxr-x, but should be -rw-rw-r--+
Repaired.
+The permissions for the file /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/Press Quality.joboptions are incorrect!+
+They are -rwxrwxr-x, but should be -rw-rw-r--+
Repaired.
+The permissions for the file /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/Smallest File Size.joboptions are incorrect!+
+They are -rwxrwxr-x, but should be -rw-rw-r--+
Repaired.
+The permissions for the directory /var/root/Library/Preferences/Acrobat/8.0_ppc are incorrect!+
+They are drwxr-xr-x, but should be drwxrwxr-x+
Repaired.
+Recreating symbolic links...+
Done.
+Verification complete.+
+846 files examined. 8 problems were found and repaired. It is recommended that you verify the permissions again to make sure the values are correct.+
Any other ideas? I really appreciate your suggestions.

Cs5, Epson 3800, OSX

I had Lion, Epson 3800 and CS5 - no problems - suddenly printing only portion of image in center of paper or top edge depending on "center image" box checked or not -   used to be when this happened it was a Page Set Up issue -   no longer HAVE page set up....
So dumped Epson driver and redownloaded - same problem
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I want my Page Set up back!!!!!!
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rear load for the fine art paper
I have been printing successfully with CS3, the 3800 and various Macs for quite a few years and other incarnations of all of the above for a LONG TIME .... and now I feel like a complete neophyte -    what am I doing wrong?
Please help I am losing money, going crazy and almost sat on the studio floor and cried....   two days of trying small changes and drastic ones ....
Thanks - Katherine

Thats a pitty. The problem isnt with Epson though its with Adobe, because when I reset photoshop with the shortkey while starting the program it works for a few days.
It's pretty anoing that it can't be fixed. Would be nice if Adobe could jump in to safe the day once again.
Thanks for the response either way.

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Hi, I am just beginning to learn how to print and would like to set up my Epson 3800, print from Lightroom, using Leopard. From reading all the issues folks have had, my first question is this: Should I even download the drivers that came with the printer, or do I use the new ones available on the Epson site? I gather paper profiles are included on the CD that came with the printer--would those also be on the download from the Epson site? Having never set up a printer to begin with, any help would be greatly appreciated.

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EDIT: I've CONFIRMED it! The ColorSync workaround DOES fix the 3rd party profile problem in LR! I specified Pro38 PLPP as the profile in LR, compared it with the PG Preview and there was a difference, proving that the PG profile was being used to render the print output from LR, now without the color cast.
BINGO! Just printed out the previous problem image, and it printed exactly as shown in Print Preview specifying the PG profile in LR for Epson EFP (which says to use PLPP in the driver, but that paper is now associated with the PG profile via the ColorSync Utility). At least there's a workaround fix to the the color shift problem printing from LR!
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