I am using epson 3800 printer

I am unable to print anything larger then a 5x7 print regardless of the setting that I use in lightroom 4 can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong, or how to print a image that is 11x14. ??????

I also have an Epson 3800 and have no problem printing on any size paper I can fit in it. It is hard to tell where the problem is based on your minimal description but, you may have the 5x7 paper size selected in print section of LR or your printer driver may have that paper size selected. To check the printer driver settings, click on "Page Setup" in the print module and drill down into the printer properites. What is your paper source set to?

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I've had the snow leopard disc since it came out some 6 months ago, but haven't installed it due to so many issue that I've read about.
1) Is anyone using snow leopard successfully with the Epson 3800 Printer? Epson has yet to release (if they ever will remains a mystery for owners of this printer) a full-fledged update for the driver.
2) Is anyone using Photoshop CS4 with snow leopard without issues?
Thanks.

Well Adobe did it again offering a discount to convert to CS5 just before they released a new version of PSE that is PSE9 for mac
Tested it and the colours come out perfectly just like CS5 and they acutally left in the option on the print screen to select "NO COLOUR MANAGEMENT". In CS5 they pulled it out and as PSE9 appears to be made up of CS5 they must have back tracked on this option after the yelling and screaming from the community.
However we now have(another problem) an issue with grey/cyan printing outside the image area being printed see
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3172635#3172635
cheers.

Drivers for Epson 3800 printer

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.

OK ... A difference! In ColorSync Utility, I clicked on Devices, expanded Printers->Epson Stylus Pro 3800->Pro38 PLPP. Then, clicked the drop down for "current profile" associated with this paper, and chose Other and navigated to the Pixel Genius Epson Exhibition Paper profile, because this is the profile I want to use with EFP paper from LR. The driver paper selection is PLPP. Now it's associated with the profile I want to use. If I were to ever want to use PLPP paper, I would have to remember to reverse this in ColorSync I presume. NOW ... I went into LR and proceeded as if I would print using the PG profile from LR. When I went into the driver, I clicked on Preview and low and behold .... NO more green cast!! I can assume the output to the printer would be OK. Whether the PG profile is doing its job from LR, I don't know for sure. It looks from Preview the same as if I had specified Pro38 PLPP in LR. Anyone??
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!
TIP: As learned from Jeff Schewe in his Camera to Print tutorial, remember to set Print Sharpening to High in LR to achieve printer output sharpening.

I am trying to print a color photo on my MacBook Pro from iPhoto (not using Photoshop) using Epson 2200 printer, and everything I do in the Color Matching and Print Settings results in a photo with a pink cast to it. What am I doing wrong?

I am trying to print a color photo on my MacBook Pro from iPhoto (not using Photoshop) using Epson 2200 printer, and everything I do in the Color Matching and Print Settings results in a photo with a pink cast to it. What am I doing wrong?

Have you checked the ink cartridges and made sure the nozzles are clear? Are you able to print from outside of iPhoto with the correct color?
Try the following: make temporary copy of the library and do the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home()/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
OT

Epson 3800 printer profiles not showing up in Photoshop 3 and 5

When I try to print to my Epson PRO 3800, asking Photoshop to handle colors, this printer profiles are not available. I have this printer for years and have always used PS CS3 to print (and handle colors). Now I have PS CS5 but continue to use 3 for printing to the 3800, because the Epson profiles disppeared from CS5. Now they have disappeared from CS3 too. Any advices?
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it might be helpful to include what os you are using (unless i missed it)
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/print-settings-option-unavailable-print.html
gballard.net/photoshop/epson/cs5/

CS3, Mac OS 10.5.5, Epson 3800 Printing Problems (v6.11)

Since recently migrating to MacIntel running an obligatory 10.5.5 , I've been encountering problems printing to my Epson 3800 of 2 kinds that had previously not arisen on PPC based Macs using 10.4+: 1) When switching media that requires a change of black ink (photo black to matte or vice versa) there does not seem to be a straightforward way to go about this without encountering glitches (previously this had been handled smoothly by the driver); 2) The driver indicates randomly that my paper feed parameters are incorrect for a given job, when in fact this is not the case, and this makes printing needlessly irksome and inefficient. This is a marvelous printer that I've been using for the past 15 months so I'd appreciate any suggestions that would allow me to remedy these problems.

Dear Ralph,
Thank you for replying to my post.
It does not seem that I will solve my problem by localisation "rectification". I am in an all International environment. Hmm.
Do you use InDesign CS3 in a totally colour managed environment?
I just got a Colour Profile done for my Intel Mac machine from InDesign and it is 'less than perfect'. Very frustrating.
This colour expert suggests I set up my work flow as follows:
[Well if I was allowed to include snapshots of my screen they would appear here.]
The Printer Profile I am using in the Colour Management dialogue box is the profile provide by the Colour Expert.
How do you set things up please?
I had, in fact still have, an Epson 3000 that the Colour Expert profiled and gave me phenomenal colour accuracy up until OS 10.5.5 when the Epson driver became non-operational. I am so disappointed that I am having so much difficulty with the 3800.
I think there are Adobe v. Mac issues plus driver problems!!!
If you can shed any light on this, I would welcome it.
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Why does my Epson 3800 printer not print to scale?

I have designed a cover for a brochure in Illustrator CS4 that I intend to print at home. This cover has a mixture of colour graphics and mono text. The mono text prints more clearly on my HP LaserJet 2200 than my Epson 3800 inkjet printer so I intend to run my covers through the laser printer first for the mono text and then through the inkjet printer for all the colour items.
I did this for last year's brochure cover without any apparent problems but my latest design is highlighting the fact that the laser printer is placing items on the page more accurately than my inkjet paper - which results in some misalignment. My Epson 3800 appears to be slightly expanding my Illustrator page layout even though I have selected the 'Do Not Scale' option in the Illustrator Print dialogue box. A measurement between two items in my Illustrator design is 278 mm. The same dimension on the printed page is 284 mm, i.e. 6 mm wider, which is a non-trivial error.
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Hi Harron,
Thanks for a rapid and accurate answer. The borderless option was indeed the culprit.
Your reply was also very useful in alerting me to the existence of the 'Retain Size' option under Expansion. I'd never seen that before, despite owning my Epson 3800 for over two years! Of course, I could have read the manual ....
The human brain is a puzzling thing. I don't think I'm stupid but I'd always ruled out the use of full bleed items in any of my amateur graphic design work as I didn't fancy printing everything on A3 just to cut it down to A4 (I use folded A4 to create an A5 brochure). I totally forgot my inkjet printer's capability to make borderless photographic prints. It's as if my brain was divided into a graphic arts compartment and a photographic compartment.
Quite by accident, your comments have made both halves of my brain talk to one another and now my cover design benefits from the use of full bleed. I can't thank you enough!
David

PS 6 & epson 3800 prints too dark

All prints are TOO Dark with PS 6 on Epson 3800 (using 27" IMac OS10.6) no matter what I have tried; HELP

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Restarting in OS 9 to use Epson C86 printer with OS 9 applications

I've installed the software for the Epson C86 printer on my iMac (Panther, OS 10.3) and I want to use the printer with applications running in the Classic Environment. I've got the OS 9 System Folder installed. The printer instructions say to restart the iMac in OS 9 and choose the C86 icon in the Chooser.
When I'm running in the Classic environment, the C86 icon does not appear in the OS 9 Chooser, and OS 9 does not appear in the Startup Pane of System Preferences. When I restart holding down the option key, only the OS X icon appears.
How do I start up in OS 9--and more importantly, how do I use the Epson C86 on this machine with OS 9 applications?
Thanks for any enlightenment you can offer!

Thanks for your response. (This is electric-hair with a new ID--consider this item marked "resolved"!) I downloaded the updated driver for the C86 from the Epson website instead of using the CD that came with the printer and everything worked automatically, just fine.
Is it always better to download and use the software from a company's website for a peripheral than to use the software on the CD that comes with? Simply because of updates...or is there another reason?

How to restart in OS 9 to use Epson C86 printer with OS 9 applications?

I've installed the software for the Epson C86 printer on my iMac (Panther, OS 10.3) and I want to use the printer with applications running in the Classic Environment. I've got the OS 9 System Folder installed. The printer instructions say to restart the iMac in OS 9 and choose the C86 icon in the Chooser.
When I'm running in the Classic environment, the C86 icon does not appear in the OS 9 Chooser, and OS 9 does not appear in the Startup Pane of System Preferences. When I restart holding down the option key, only the OS X icon appears.
How do I start up in OS 9--and more importantly, how do I use the Epson C86 on this machine with OS 9 applications?
Thanks for any enlightenment you can offer!

You cannot start up in OS 9. The last mac that could boot into 9 rolled off the assembly line several years ago. However, you may be able to print from Classic by installing the OS 9 driver for your printer into Classic, the same way you would install it into a bootable system.

[WIN XP] Epson 3800 Print Previews

Hi,
After spending quite some time with Lightroom I developed kind of a love/hate relationship which more and more swings over to the love side. Right now I love LR because my prints come out of my 3800 like a charm!
One behaviour that I can't explain though:
If I am printing out of Photoshop, the Epson printer preview roughly matches the print. I am leaving the CM to PS, and I am using a hardware (Gretag) calibrated and profiled monitor. I am also using specific paper profiles. Results are perfect. Same good results for b/w with the Epson extended b/w mode.
In LR the printer preview shows totally unusable colors (magenta, too light etc.). The print itself: Perfect! Same behaviour of the preview with different paper profiles, CM to LR, CM to printer. BUT: The print preview in the Epson extended b/w mode was ok, as was the print itself.
Printing without preview delivers the same good results.
Does somebody have a clue why there are these differences between PS and LR?
The print preview isn't all that important to me. But without this possibility I really, really would like to see softproofing in LR.
Regards, Wolfgang

Thanks Dave for the reply. I do monitor the forums quite closely and have read all the links you suggest. The request for some more discussion was after already conducting tests about specific areas outlined in my post. Again, thanks for the reply. Any other replies would be nice too. LOL.
Peter

Simple workaround for Epson 3800 printing too dark

I've read the threads over the last year on this topic with interest. I have a 3800, run CS3 on a Mac Pro, OS 10.4.11, do regular monitor calibration have, custom profiles and am an experienced Photoshop & Mac user. My colour prints are way too dark, independent of the paper used, but since B & W prints are perfect I assume I can rule out monitor brightness as the problem. After tearing my hair out & getting as much expert help as I could in NZ & reading all I could find online, I've come to the conclusion that for some unknown reason, some 3800s just have this problem. My workaround is to duplicate the flattened image, setting blend mode to screen at between 15 & 25%, depending on the image. With experience I can now quickly gauge the % required – if I'm not sure, I run some test strips. Sure, it's not a particularly "scientific" solution, but it's quick, easy & it works. If others out there are still struggling, I hope this helps.

Just sorted my problem using the suggestion on this site>
http://www.photographyri.com/index.php/2008/11/11/photoshop-cs4-vs-cs2-print-engine-proble
I reset my printer as the Default Printer and now the prints are exactly(!) what I'm seeing on the monitor.
Wonder what the reset does apart from cure a bug?
Brill!
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The Epson 3800 printing dark problem Windows XP and 7

CS-4 on a dual boot machine that used to have an Epson 2200 (it died) connected that didn't have the problem with some of the same files.
Like many, I am having the "prints too dark problem. Does the European driver v. 6.61 September 3, 2009 (US driver is 6.50) solve the problem?
The copy the layer and set blending option to screen helps a bit.
Drop down to 8-bit color and lighten via Variations helps a bit.
Would transfering the files to another computer and printing through CS original or the version before that help?
I am following, step by step the manual, setting. Proof colors set to the paper, Driver shows proper paper. Driver color management turned off with Photoshop manageing the color, etc.
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Thank you and have a happy Thanksgiving.
Bill

Cured.
Uninstalled "latest and greatest" driver.
Reinstalled the older one on the included CD.
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Using Epson DX6000 printer with leopard and timecapsule

I can print fine when i plug in the printer direct to the macbook, but not when connecting the printer direct to the timecapsule. Macbook sees it ok, and says it's printed to it but nothing happens. Tried reinstalling drivers' deleting preferences etc but no good. And like i said works fine when connected directly.
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That was my experience as well - the key was getting rid of the old driver.
Finally figured it out after spending literally days on this problem.
Read this post first:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5862672
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Hello, I have been trying to get a decent printed photo (6" x 4" high gloss photo paper) using the above. All I seem to get are very poor quality prints. There does not seem to be a way of telling iphoto what medium I am using or the correct resolution I wish to use. Can anyone help !
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Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums
If paper type is available it is in the printer specific options on the second print window - select the photo(s) you want to print, click print, select the printer, paper size and print size and click print - in the resulting window any available printer specific options will be in the pull down line toward the bottom of the window - if they are not click on the gray triangle to the right of the printer name to open the full window -- note that the available printer specific options are controlled by the printer driver - not iPhoto
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