Epson R1900 = Bad?

I just bought a new Epson R1900. Running OS 10.5.3 and CS2. When I try to print from Illustrator, the print is pixellated. Tried adjusting Doc settings, Doc Raster Settings, Printer settings.. all to no avail. Called Epson (On phone for a good HOUR.. 45 minutes of that ON HOLD). And... nothing! The technician suggested it was an Adobe issue. When I printed with PS and opened the PS in Acrobat, the file was FINE. When I switched back to the r1800, and printed to PDF, I got that awful bitmapping effect, which leads me to believe it may be a driver issue... ? But I just downloaded the most recent driver. Tried reinstalling everything too.
I am nonplussed!! About to commit heinous defenestration. Please. Please anyone. Please help.
Thank you.

Is that a postscript printer? I started to answer this yesterday, but then realized I didn't fully understand it and assumed someone would be along with a better answer than what I can come up with.
My understanding is that Acrobat acts as a postscript interpreter for non-postscript printers, while Illy just prints raw postscript, which a non-postscript printer is ill equipped to deal with.
Someone here can explain it better than that, but the short answer to your problem is to refrain from throwing the printer out the window and print from PDFs in Acrobat (which you've already discovered)

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Very slight blue cast on epson r1900 when match print color check box is checked

Ok, so this problem has been bugging me for some time now and I know other people have it too, because I can see it some of the screen shots.
I am running CS3 and and epson r1900. Using the latest drivers, and latest ICM epson paper profiles downloaded again just yesterday. So what happen is when I go to print a photo, whenever I check the match print color box, the proof instantly assume a very light blue cast which prints on the paper as well.
Let me tell you what I know it is not.
1. It is not double color management- ICM is disabled on the epson print manager side
2. It is not a badly calibrate monitor, My spyder 2 is working just fine.
I am wondering if its some type of gamut compression inherint the the ICC profile, but if that were the case, if I converted my photo into the icc's color space, it just take on the blue cast, but it does not it. The blue cast appears only after the match printer colors check box is checked. Even if I add additional whitespace to the picture, that what space, which when you think about it, should just be paper white, get printed again with the light blue cast. In checking and unchecking that above mentioned box, I can see that other features within the photo are being affected or shifted as well. If I use a different icc profile, say, the Kodak Professional Paper profile or a red river paper profile, there is no Blue Cast period when the box is check or unchecked, so it seems to be something related to epson profiles, and Photoshop.
I have removed the printer and reinstalled with all the latested drivers available at epson website, as well as removed all my old epson paper iCC profiles and reinstalled them from that latest available from epson as well.
I can see on some epson printing tutorials avaiable on the web, this blue cast in the screen shots. Like here- http://www.gballard.net/psd/printing_epson_photoshop_cs3.html
compare the the preview print area , the the white in the in input box for print size and you can see there is a cast.
So is this normal?
thanks
Patrick

Patrick,
ICC profiles include white point information. When you check the match print color box, Photoshop trys to show a quick soft proof of your image there in the print dialog. The blue cast is Photoshop trying to simulate the white point in the profile - which happens to be the shade of the paper. Some papers have more of a pronounced blue or yellow shade, and this shows up in the soft proof.
In reality you will not see nearly the level of shift on a print as you do in the Photoshop print dialog. That soft proof is not really super accurate.
To summarize it is indeed the paper ICC profile that is causing the effect. Different profiles will all show slightly different variations in the white point under these circumstances.
Drew Hendrix
Red River Paper
www.redriverpaper.com

Problem printing in illustrator with my epson r1900

Hi, all. I recently bought an epson r1900. Tried to print out some images and types with my r1900 in either illustrator or photoshop. The images printed allright, but all my types is getting some "pixelated edges" when its not a stright line...the edges are not smooth at all...no matter when the type is 12pt or 72pt... But on the other hand, when i convert the document to a jpeg and print with "Preview" the problem sloved... it does have a solid edges type... why is that?? i did have lots of experence with my pervious epson 1280,2200,and 2400 but i never got this problem before....can you guys help me with it??
thanks
wing

Wingyluk, were you ever able to find a way around this problem? Any driver download or RIP app that works with this printer? I have the same problem. However, I had the same problem a few years back with my older CS3 and older mac and somehow it ended up working (can'y for the life of me remember). Now that I have upgraded I am faced with the problem again.

Epson R1900 Color Issues Only Printing From Lightroom

Hi all - my first post here thought I've been reading this forum since I purchased 1.1 a while back. I'm using 1.4.1 with XP Home, service pack 3. I've had very few issues with this release (which is why I haven't jumped to 2.X yet). To date, I've occasionally printed snapshots with an HP 1115, but most printing has been through labs.
I recently purchased an Epson R1900 and I've been unable to get colors to print remotely correct through Lightroom. It looks to me like the color is getting managed twice, regardless of the settings I use. The R1900 driver allows a preview before actually printing, and the colors it shows are always off by a lot, regardless of whether I let Lightroom manage color or the printer.
Other less sophisticated programs do not have this problem. I can print a JPEG image through Windows Photo Printing Wizard or a pdf through Adobe Reader with much closer correlation to the monitor. Prints from the HP 1115 are comparatively much lower quality, but through Lightroom or other applications, color is within reason. I'm assuming there are others that are successfully using this printer with Lightroom running on Windows XP. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I solved my color problem by updating the printer driver to version 6.60. When I discovered that a newer driver was available I had attempted to update it but it would not install correctly. I contacted Epson for help, but only received links to non-relevant information. I eventually determined that using MSCONFIG to keep all nonessential programs from starting would allow the driver to correctly install. Simply shutting down all user launched programs and my virus software was insufficient.
Prints are definitely on the dark side, but I've been able to compensate as Dan has suggested. Otherwise, I am quite pleased with the prints it produces on Epson Premium Glossy, and am looking forward to experimenting with other papers and ICC profiles. Thanks all for your help and suggestions.

Epson R1900 Print Problem - Image shift/Cropping

When Printing 13x19 files in Photoshop, the image always prints centered in an 8.5 x 11 area at the lower right corner of the page as it comes out of the printer. The image is cropped into this letter sized area at its correct size and is not scaled. My best guess is that the printer is thinning the paper size is set to LETTER, not Super B. I have checked all the settings multiple times but see no place where the paper is not set correctly or that the printer is not set to Epson R1900 (i.e. it is not set to "Any Printer"). I have had this printer for several years (and have been using Macs & Epson printers professionally for 20 years), and it has worked properly in the past with this sized image. I have not needed to print this size image for a while so not sure what might have changed in the mean time.
This ONLY happens in Photoshop (CC and CS5 tested). It will print correct from InDesign and Illustrator, but the color is shifting too much. I have always gotten my best color when printing directly from Photoshop and this particular project requires accurate color.
Happens on 2 different computers (newer iMac and older MacBook Pro) and on different photoshop files. Drivers are currently up to date according to Apple's Software update.
Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.
Roger
Mac OSX 10.8.5 on iMac (less than 2 years old)
Printing from Photoshop with the following settings:
Printer: Epson Sylus Photo R1900
Print Settings:
Printer: Epson Sylus Photo R1900
paper Size: Super B (13 x 19 in)
Color Management:
Color Handling: Photoshop Manages Color
Printer Profile: SPR Ultra Premium Presentation matte
Normal Printing
Perceptual
Position & Size
CENTERED=ON (-0.118 / -0.152)
Scale 100%
Height 19
Width 13
Scale to Media=OFF
Print Resolution: 300ppi
ALL OTHER SETTINGS ARE OFF
Document size is 13x9 at 300ppi

To further clarify, the dialog box that I refer to DOES come up if the printer chosen is the $100 HP printer I have for office
work. The choice between "best photo" quality, etc is right there in the dialog window - like I assume that it
should be for the Epson.
This dialog box is definitely shown in the User Guide of the Epson printer????

Illustrator CS5 with Epson R1900 = aliasing lines

Hi all,
I've been searching for answers as to why my Epson R1900 is printing with aliased lines when printing from Illustrator (CS5), without much luck. I've read in another forum that it is perhaps a driver issue but have not found confirmation from other sources. We haven't used the printer in a few months and this is the first time it is happening. I'm fairly knowledgable about color mangement and using the correct profiles and have tried various combinations with no luck.
I've downloaded and installed the latest Combo Update from Epson's website and have gone through the deletion and reinstall process about three times. The colors are accurate and the Print Utility works well (showing ink levels etc), but the quality of the line work is obviously aliased. The hitch is that if I convert the files to PDF, then print from Acrobat Reader, the line quality is perfect. I really don't want to (nor feel I should have to), convert my files to PDFs to print them (because of the workflow, it becomes a little harder to manage the color correctly and transparencies get tricky).
Can anyone please provide some insight and/or help with this?
FYI:
Color space: sRGB
Set to let Illustrator handle color.
Media Profile: Epson Ultra Prem Presenation Matte
Color result: Very acceptable (maybe 95% accurate)
Thanks for your time and help!
Cheers,
Michael

Can you manually tweak the ink and line bleed setting in the printer driver? Sounds like that just needs to be set a little higher for the printer to produce additional droplets for the antialiasing...
Mylenium

Epson R1900 and iCC/iCM profiling...when do you give up?

I'm using Windows 7 64bit (non-SP1) and Lightroom 3.3 with a Epson R1900 printer.
Sorry if this is winded, but I've tried a lot myself and had to break down and post here.
I've read a lot of posts already about disabling color management in the printer or in LR 3.3. I've downloaded all possible profiles from Epson or other places that sound logical enough to help with my specific paper. I understand that my screen could be too bright or too dark and lightroom's interface itself could even give the impression of a photo being too bright or dark. I've read about iCC profiling twice, first in software then in the printer. I've used a Spyder3 Print SR and Spyder 3 screen calibrator.
No matter what combintation I try, my photos print too dark of course, but even worse, the color is really off (more than the brightness). Also, I understand there is a lot of printers so it can be hard giving exact toggles in options that might not even exist with ones printer.
Now I'm not nearly as educated as most of you on these issues, so I'm going to ask some questions (sorry if they seem "newbish").
First, I understand (or currently am under the impression) that Lightroom uses something called "MelissaRBG or a.k.a "BastardRGB" to print to the screen (?). If this is true, shouldn't the exporting iCC profile be MelissaRGB.icc? Now if this is true, shouldn't the Host (Win7) look different being set at sRGB than that to what is in Lightroom? It doesn't on my system. So again if this Melissa profile is true, does Lightroom only export in MelissaRGB between the print to screen and whatever given .icc profile you have chosen to export in? In other words, is there only a handshake happening with Melissa.
Second, where does the host .icc start and end. I assume since Lightroom does not come packaged with drivers for every possible graphics card, that the host's color manager has to pass off a matrix for colors to the Lightroom software.
Third, being that the above 2 questions might be out of a users simplistic control and that I can't see what I'm doing wrong, should one just use the basic controls of the printer module? In my case the best prints I get are when I use the printers modules color manager of "Epson Vivid" with a +10 in brightness and +4 in saturation. Of course, this isn't going to help when I want to print to canvas or may other paper types. However, all the profiling in the world with my Spyder3 Print SR might be correct, but I'll never know because the prints always come out way off.
All the trying and failure make me feel like the guy who is barely qualified to make small rocks from a boulder, just give me a hammer. Should I just give up and let it rip with sliders and keep my eyes closed?
By the way, there is really very little found easily through search engines that explain how the profiling should be SET UP on a computer in specific pratice . But yes, there is A LOT that want to walk you through the math and theory of it all, just not how any particular software handles it, not even the operating system.

Just checking off a few things. You may have done all this and some has been said before, I'm just trying for the complete list:
I think you're saying you've calibrated your monitor with Spyder 3. As a check, when you check the profile in W7 control panel, it will show the profile you've created with Spyder 3 as the default for the monitor (if not, something's wrong)
I'm not familiar with Spyder 3 software, but does it give you the option of setting screen brightness? It should be 100-120 cd/m2. No more. If you can't set it in the Spyder s/w, try turning the brightness down and recalibrating with Spyder. You can also use the "Colorimetre HCFR" software (http://www.homecinema-fr.com/colorimetre/index_en.php) to measure profile parameters, including brightness.
Another check on brightness: get a piece of blank printer paper, and with normal room lighting hold it near your monitor when displaying something white. Does the screen look significantly brighter than the paper? If so, it may be too bright. Modern monitors are way too bright by default. My HP monitor brightness is set to 15 out of 100 to get 100 cd/m2.
When printing from LR, select in the "Print Job" area (bottom right in print module) "profile: SPR1900 Premium Glossy", or whatever the profile name is for the paper you're using (I'm guessing the name, I have an R1800). This is telling LR to colour-mange the printer, and telling it which profile to use.
Click Page Setup... (bottom L) and set the paper type in the Epson dialogue. Click Advanced (I think it's a separate tab in R1900, it's a button in Main tab on R1800) and in "Colour management" check ICM and (very important) check "Off (No Color Adjustment)". I'm not sure with the R1900, but on the Main tab, you may also have to "Mode: custom" and "No Color Adjustment" in the drop down. This is telling the printer driver that:
colour management is being used (so don't mess with the colours to make them "pretty", which it would otherwise do)
colour management is being done by the application, not the driver (in other words, telling the driver not to do anything itself)
The important thing is that colour management of the printer should be done in one place only. The method above gets it done in LR, you can also turn it off in LR and use the driver, but I recommend the steps above.
If all that's OK, it ought to work. Printed output is never going to be identical to the screen - they're different physical representations of the image - but colour should be fairly close.
You mentioned LR using a form of ProPhoto colour space as its working space. That's not an issue. It's just a convenience for LR, and has absolutely no bearing on the output. The only point is that the working space should be at least as large as the original image colour space, the monitor colour space and the printer colour space (so it's not limiting the colour). LR automatically converts the image to:
the monitor colour space when displaying images (provided you have an appropriate profile set for the monitor, which should be done by spyder 3)
the printer colour space, which you specify when you print, remembering to set the driver as above.

Printing Problems in CS4 with EPSON R1900

I recent bought a new Epson R1900 and much to my dismay, I can't print from InDesign or Illustrator (haven't yet tried from Photoshop). Basically what happens is that the printer ignores any settings I configure, and prints with the "Default" settings. So not only can I not control the quality or media type, but by default it uses up the Glossy Optimiser, by assuming I want to print on glossy stock.
My workaround in the meantime is to create everything as a PDF and print from Acrobat. For some reason, Acrobat can talk to the printer.
Has anyone else found these problems? Is there any solution to be had?

Ive gone crazy trying to get ID CS3 to print on my HP Laserjet P1006. Various Adobe techs have spent hours trying to find a fix. They really have been very nice and all tried
to be helpful. And - THANK GOD - most of them spoke English. Im hard of hearing and
unfortunately speak very little Indian. (Someone told me that all ID techs speak english.)
It will print PDF. And CS3 Illustrator and Photoshop will print.
One tech suggested that I download CS4 for the 30 day trial to see if it will print. But, after
reading your problem, I will skip even trying.
For quite a while, I was told that it was an Apple problem and that 10.5.6 was going
to fix it. But it didnt. My printer prints a blank page.
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Does a new imac support epson r1900

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When using printer Epson R1900 with Aperture 3 and if I mistakenly choose the wrong paper such as, epson's luster instead of glossy, does that change the exposure? Like make it too dark one or two stops!

When using printer Epson R1900 with Aperture 3 and if I mistakenly choose the wrong paper such as, epson's luster instead of glossy, does that change the exposure? Like make it too dark one or two stops!

Hi,
If you choose the incorrect settings for printing, yes - the print quality will be affected.
Different papers absorb the ink differently, so you can end up with prints that are too light, too dark, or have a colour cast if you make incorrect choices in your Aperture or printer settings.

Epson R1900 dark prints from CS5

I had Photoshop 7.0 on my PC and printed to an Epson Stylus Photo R1900 with great results.
I purchased a MacBook Pro and tried printing some of the same art prints (transferred via hard drive) using Photoshop CS5 and the same Epson R1900 printer. The prints are very dark!! I switched to 'Printer manages color' on the advice of an Epson technician who said PS is managing color based on 4 ink colors. The Epson has eight colors. I have tried multiple settings, I bought a Color Munki and calibrated my monitor. I still can't get the same quality print that I got using my old PC and version 7.0 of Photoshop. Has anyone else solved this problem yet? I have found numerous comments online about the Epson R1900 printing too DARK!

I took my Epson R1900 printer to Washington State University and asked the printer technician to see if he could help.
The instructor and technician were co-teaching my photography class that included adjusting our digital photos in Camera raw and using correct settings in Photoshop to make prints. My prints turned out perfect on the WSU Epson. They were too dark on my R1900-(terrible actually.) I had a photo of mallard chicks with dark brown feathers, on my Epson R1900 they printed out with almost black brown feathers. The instructors tried adjustments (Photoshop manages colors), adjusting curves, and got the same result I did.
We then tested to see if it was my Mac. We used the same image and printed to my Epson from the WSU Macintosh computers. This same image had printed perfectly on the schools Epson but printed dark on my Epson. Same settings. They suggested that I buy a different printer. The instructor said he had colleagues that had experienced similar problems. I just keep hoping I can find a solution rather than buying new.

Illustrator CS2 Printing Help - Epson R1900

Hi there,
I've been printing to my Epson R1900 with no problems from Illustrator CS2 from my Macbook for a year without a problem. I got a new Macbook, only slightly newer than the last, reinstalled Illustrator, and now my print quality is in the gutter. I've tried to adjust the print settings, which I never had to do before, and it's still very poor. What I am printing are just graphics I've drawn on-screen. No images. In the Output section of Print Presets, I can't adjust anything except Right Reading or Left Reading. Can anyone help? I don't know what changed. All of the printer drivers are the same and are installed. The strokes of lines look pixelated, as does the text. I know I could do "Create Outlines" to sharpen it, but I never had to do that before, and I want to be able to edit the text later.
Hopefully someone can help.
Thank you for your time.
Keli

You upgraded your OS as well and that is what has changed you will not be able to print from the epson R1900 with smooth curved lines or smooth paths.
Simply not possible in the newer OS above 10.5.
This is what you must do, Print from Acrobat or if you wish rasterize the art and print that.
Or save it a psd rasterized and print that from Photoshop.
Or purchase a RIP software.

PDF's not printing to Epson R1900

Posted problem awhile back. PDF would not print to my Epson R1900. Downloaded umpteen different drivers. I am on a G5 Intel Dual Core running OS 10.5.6 or 10.5.7 since yesterday. Adobe very little help, Epson likewise, although I talked to an Epson Tech for about 45 minutes one day.
Decided I had to fix this myself. When in the Print window Click on "Advanced", check mark "Print as Image". This enables printing the PDF.
Adobe has a note about this on their website now.

Thank you!!!
I recently noticed that when using the Gutenberg drivers on my Epson Stylus Photo 380, it was shrinking the pages slightly.
So I decided to update the Epson drivers, and use them instead.
After updating, I could no longer print over my network. It was making my crazy. I tried everything that I could think of.
I saw your post & tried it. Perfect, worked like a charm!
And such a simple solution.
Thank you.

Photoshop Manages Color Epson R1900

My epson R1900 printer will not print the color green- all inks are full

Are you saying that you have tested it from other applications, and they are OK and that it is only Photoshop that won't print green?

Epson r1900 Prints too dark after upgrading to cs5 from cs3

Ok this one has got me stumped. While still in photoshop CS3 my epson r1900 was printing photo's just fine. After upgrading cs3 to Photoshop cs5 it now prints everything too blue. Nothing else has changed. My monitor is still calibrated, my printer paper profiles are still the same, the only change was upgrading to cs5. To me it looks all the world like ICM is being applied twice (in photoshop and the printer) but in photoshop I have selected "photoshop manages colors" just like I did in cs3, and in the print dialog box for the printer, I have selected no ICM again just like I did in CS3. But now the prints come out with a, to my eye, dark blue tint. Very very frusterating. I have deleted the color prefs file and let that recreate, but that did not help either. I am out of tricks. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Patrick

There were a lot of reports of "double profiling" with Epson printers when Photoshop CS5 was first released. I believe many people were seeing magenta-looking prints at that time.
Unfortunately, I don't think there was ever a resolution or even a good workaround... I recall at least one person bought a new printer to be able to continue to work.
Of course, double check to see whether Epson has released any updated printer drivers.
As I don't have an Epson myself, I can only suggest that you'll want to experiment with your settings to see if you can find a way to disable color management in the printer driver, so that only Photoshop does it - or disable color-management in Photoshop so that only the printer driver will do it.
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