Epson Photo Printer 2400 Color Management

I cannot get my photos color and vibrancy to print on this printer. I have tried 5 profiles so far. Anyone have ideas on how to make this happen. What profile or devises might help me? I downloaded the matt and luster profiles but can't find them. Where are they supposed to be on the harddrive. Thanks delish

Having turned off the Epson colour management, you need to ensure you have selected the correct colour profile in CS3. It helps to calibrate your monitor correctly and use a profile designed for your printer / paper / ink combination to ensure what you see on the screen is what feeds out the printer. Paper brand can make a startling difference. There are companies that offer a profiling service. You print out a pecific photo / pattern from their provided file and send them the print on the ink / paper you use and they email a profile.. Google will find these companies for you.

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of color management. Getting a pink hue on my prints. Past experience is color management is getting in the way in the driver. Looking through the epson online docs, what I see on screen does not match with the window menu picks for the epson utility. Checked printers in system preferences/drivers nothing to turn off there. Any thoughts on turning this off?
Thanks,
The new guy with his first MAC.

Having turned off the Epson colour management, you need to ensure you have selected the correct colour profile in CS3. It helps to calibrate your monitor correctly and use a profile designed for your printer / paper / ink combination to ensure what you see on the screen is what feeds out the printer. Paper brand can make a startling difference. There are companies that offer a profiling service. You print out a pecific photo / pattern from their provided file and send them the print on the ink / paper you use and they email a profile.. Google will find these companies for you.

I keep getting a "waiting for printer to become available when trying to print on my Epson Photo Stylus 2400. It used to work.

I'm trying to print a .psd image from Photoshop CS5 using my Epson Photo Stylus 2400 printer. Yesterday, I downloaded a suggested upgrade and it hasn't worked since then. I used Time Machine and replaced the Epson utility with the old one. I then get a message:
Waiting for printer to become available...
and nothing happens. I need to be able to print!
I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Try Reset Printing System feature and then install the printer using Apples instructions from Mac Basics: Printing in OS X

Unable to print from a Mac using Maverick 10.9.2 on an Epson Photo printer with Photoshop CS4. Can you help?

I am trying to print in Photoshop CS4 on an Epson Photo printer (3880) from my Mac. I just upgraded to Maverick 10.9.2 when the problem started. Can you help.

I have the answer. It took quite a while but I know why the 3880 won't print from Photoshop 4 with Maverick. It is due to the Epson .icc page description files. The way to solve the problem is to make your own .icc. OK, so you don't know how to do it. This is what I did so now I get the quality prints I expect from an expensive printer.
You need to go to www.datacolor.com/spyderprint and purchase the Spyderprint hardware and software. It comes as a package for $300 to $350 depending on if you get a sale. The software will print on the 3880 test sheets of color blocks. With the hardware reader you then read the colors on the test sheets printed. What this does is match the monitor image with the printer, ink and paper you used. It makes an .icc page description file for you to select instead of the Epson .icc file. When you print again select the new .icc file and also choose "Printer Manages Colors" instead of "Photoshop Manages Colors" I know this is usual but it works. When you are done you will be smiling too with your beautiful results.
One other thing. If you want, it is optional, also purchase the Spider 4 Pro for $150. It calibrates your monitor and helps make excellent prints.
I understand it is more money and you already probably have a good computer, expensive camera to go with the 3880 so spend the extra money so it all works together.
I hope this helps.

Cs6- need to enable printer's color management in Print settings dialogue box

I have been printing successfully for months to my Epson R2400. Suddenly, I am getting a Caution Triangle with a note that says "Remember to enable the printer's color management in the print settings dialog box. I have selected Color Handling: Printer manages in the Photoshop Print Settings box. Where else would I make this change.

Just select Photoshop Manages Color, and the printer driver color options should be disabled.

How to disable the printer's color management in Photoshop CS5 with Mavericks?

Hi there, does anyone know how to disable the printer's color management in Photoshop CS5 with Mavericks? There doesn't seem to be an option. Could you help? Many thanks

Just select Photoshop Manages Color, and the printer driver color options should be disabled.

So, CAN I turn off the printer's color management? Pixma Pro-100.

So, I am trying to turn off the color management function for the Pro-100...
On my Windows desktop, I use Photoshop to print with Canson Rag 210, color profile installed, allow photoshop to manage colors and print a beautiful, perfect print with the Mark 9000. Now, I have the Pixma Pro-100 and using the exact same settings, I print wirelessly with my laptop, and I get these dark, red/orange hued prints that are atrocious.
I should mention the same exact photograph printed between setups ALWAYS prints better with the Mark 9000 and my desktop. However, when using my laptop and the Mark 9000... Crap. Laptop and Pixma Pro-100... Crap. What is my MAC doing that my desktop is not?! How can identical settings print such drastic results? Photoshop does warn me (newer version on my MAC vs. Windows) to turn off the printer's color management in the printer's settings, but I do not see that option. Maybe I'm missing it? How do I do that? I'm thinking it may help!

Have you tried printing from the MacBook using Canon Print Studio Pro or letting printer manage colors? I know this doesn't specifically answer your question, but PSP is designed to handle the PS/printer interface.
Download PSP 1.3.5 from the Canon support site.
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/printers_multifunction/pixma_pro_series/pixma_pro_100...
John Hoffman
Conway, NH
1D Mark IV, Rebel T5i, Pixma PRO-100, MX472

How do I print without color management in CS6?

EVery time I print a test target for color profiling, I open CS4 so that I can print with no color management. I can't figure out how to do it in CS6. I must be missing something obvious, but I just can't find the option to print without color management anywhere in the CS6 driver.

As someone who prints Digital Negatives (there are quite a few of us out there now), the ability to print without color management is a huge liability. Why would you take that out of Photoshop and create a completely seperate application to do this? From inside photoshop, I can print with registration marks (necessary for multi-negative prints).
So now there's Lightroom to manage the locations, open up Photoshop to apply curves and then figure a way to add registration marks to the file itself, the print from another app altogether.
Even just the ability to add profiles (AdobeRGB tagged file, then print with photoshop manage color, AdobeRGB profile) works in this situation.. but for some reason.. you've decided to pick and choose which profiles we can and can't use.
... unhappy with CS6
jim

Printing Problems CS4 & Epson Photo R-2400

When I download profiles form Epson and install them they don't show up in the print dialogue page. I have installed to the photoshop applications folder. Should they go somewhere else? Is there a step by step tutorial on how to add profiles to photoshop?
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Don,
>but the print is streaked and the colors are wrong.
Streaking is often a sign that some of the ink jets are plugged and require a cleaning cycle. What do you mean by "the colors are wrong"? Is it red-prints-as-green wrong? Or red-prints-as-reddish-brown wrong? Have you recently hardware-color calibrated your monitor?
Tell us exactly how you are printing, including color profiles, paper profiles, etc. -- and
screenshots of your print setup dialog boxes (linked to posted images on your server to pixentral.com can help a lot here).
Neil

Photoshop Help | Printing with color management in Photoshop CS6

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This is usually done in the printer driver's console.
What make/model printer do you have?
Good luck,
Hunt

Printing: ICC Color Managed -vs- Driver Managed

Hi,
I have a Dell U2410 monitor calibrated with a Datacolor Spyder4Express.
I have an inexpensive Canon 6220 (dye) and also a Canon 9550 Mark II printer (pigments).
I tried printing a test print from Picasa as well as from Adobe Elements and Lightroom.
We went through manh of the permuations of printing from each printer using the different print modes.
Observations:
0. all the prints look different. Some are passable some are not.
1. the Adobe ICC color managed prints from Lightroom and/or Elements don't look better (or closer to the U2410 calibrated monitor).
2. each print has strenghts and weakness (e.g. - too much red, blue is weak, etc.)
3. we viewed the prints in a variety of viewing environments.
Questions:
1. would printer profiling help at this juncture?
2. in reality are the actual printers different then the Canon ICC profiles?
3. do the printer profiling tools measure the distance (error) in the standard ICC profiles -vs- what was measured/computed?
Thanks in advance!

Too much Red (weak Blue) is a symptom of Double Profiling. I am guessing you are printing to profile in Lightroom and failing to turn off the Windows-based color management.
In your Canon Print Dialog (9550) Main tab, Color/Intensity setting. Click the Manual button and then the [Set…]
This takes you to the Manual Color Adjustment dialog. On the Matching tab, set Color Correction to None
Now go back to Lightroom and print using the Printer/Paper profile.

Attempts to wrap my head around printing and color management.

So, I've been meaning to get (more) serious about printing my shots. It's the summer and I now have some time.
I know I've got the first piece of the puzzle in place. I have an i1 Display 2 that I use to calibrate my monitor - my MB + one of 2 Dells using either or TN or P-MVA panel. I try to use the latter more.
I've viewed the image with different monitors and lowered the brightness when 'soft proofing' with Canon's profile. It's the best I can do being that I don't own a spectrometer.
Anyway the result on my screen was so incredibly different. The black was grey. I lost shadow detail. And it just looked flat. I tweaked it a bit but it didn't help.
I decided to test print using the Canon Photo Plus Glossy paper I had. I set the ColorSync Profile box to the profile I soft proofed with. The result was horrible!!!! Incredibly dark and ugly. It however wasn't grey or very flat - though it was so dark.
I tried again with the colorsync profile set to system managed. This produced a result darker than the screen, but not grey like the profile. Sort of an average between the screen and profile. Much better but still not great.
Then I ran out of paper and couldn't try anything else.
So here's the technical info if it matters:
I'm using a canon ip5200 with 3 fresh inks. The other 2 are fairly recent and not used too much.
The paper was Canon Photo paper plus glossy
The photo was a sports shot with a heavy dark vignette I think a more even shot would be easier to work with. However, the dark vignette with blonde flying hair looked great. (Who says sports can't be artistic?- I love the vignette to for some shots!)
So what exactly is the ColorSync Profile menu in the print window for?
What am I doing wrong?
PS: Sorry if this is a repeat, but the search function is down.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but there are some seriously weird stuff going on with printing with Aperture and 10.5 I would not have believed it had a number of my clients and friends not experienced the same kind of issues that I personally walked through and witnessed.
I can give some general advise in terms of helping to resolve your issues. By all means update to 10.5.4 do a repair permissions on your drive, make sure that you reinstall the latest greatest printer drivers for Leopard downloaded from Canon, and wave some chicken bones over your system.
You may also want to trash your Aperture prefs and Printer presets and start from scratch. (if you do not know how to do this hit me back)
Then give it another try - make sure that you turn off color mgt in the printer prefs dialog, select the appropriate paper and then select the corresponding profile in the aperture print dialog. (Have heard reports that if you do not turn the color mgt off in the driver the option becomes unavailable after you select the paper profile in Aperture but does not turn it off - cannot confirm)
Hope this helps.
RB

Epson R3000 printing wrong colors after Apple software update from 24th January

I updated the EPSON driver version 2.16 within the Apple Update. Now the colors are wrong. I restored Library\Printers\EPSON from Time Machine with date 18th January. But I have still the problem.

Hi pilotmicha,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Try these troubleshooting steps if your printer is not behaving correctly:
Delete the affected printer, then add the printer again.
If the issue persists, try these additional steps:
Reset the printing system, then add the printer again.
If the issue still persists, reset the printing system again. Download and install your printer's drivers. Then, add the printer again.
Contact the printer vendor or visit their website for further assistance.
You can find these steps and more information here:
Troubleshooting printer issues in OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3147
Best Regards,
Jeremy

PS6; print; PS print settings; color management; printer profile: how to get paper profile to "stick" for multiple prints of same paper type, ie Matte. Mine reverts to Luster as the default.

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Hola Gustavo,
your task is for me not quite clear. I can see two scenarios:
a) Calibrate the press for ISONewspaper26v4 ink (your standard process) on salmon colored paper.
    Print the target by press on this paper, measure and build the profile. There is no problem so far.
    But preparing CMYK data with this profile for printing by press requires a very complicated gamut
    compression, becauses the gamut of the actual process on salmon paper is small and excentric
    in Lab. As mentioned in my previous post.
b) Simulate the appearance of press prints on salmon paper, disregarding the salmon color by profiles.
    This shall be done in your case by a toner printer.
    The toner printer has to be calibrated with white paper. As a result one gets a valid Printer Profile.
    The proof printing happens for a CMYK file, for instance a PDF/X-1a file so:
    Input profile: ISONewspaper26v4
    Output profile: Printer Profile
    Printed on salmon paper!
    The printer profiling converts the toner printer into a more or less reliable proof printer. This has nothing
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Page 11 shows an example:
http://docs-hoffmann.de/oki-ps-28082005.pdf
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

Printing with color management

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