Lightroom, epson 3880, print dialog problems

Hi, I hope someone can help me - I am really struggling with lightroom 5 on OSX 10.8.5 and printing to Epson 3880.
Whenever I change the print dialog eg to rear feeder, or photo glossy paper it daults to top feeder, and premuim lustre paper. Printing directly after making changes has no effect. I have tried deleting the epson drivers and associated files and reloading, deleting and re-installing lightroom, and no joy.
The printer dialog works fine in elements and preview, its just lightroom where it seems to have no effect.
I hope someone can help because its driving me mad!!!!!
Thanks

So it's the Epson/LR combo only?
If you haven't done it lately, I'd do the Epson-Apple driver fix hocus pocus which is to delete all instances of Epson printers from System Preferences>Print & Fax.
Then go to /Library/Printers and toss the whole Epson folder.
Toss LFP Remote Panel (IF you are using this utility for your printer).
Then reinstall drivers from Epson, never Apple.
When you go back to Print & Fax to add the printer, on 10.6 I had to wait almost a minute before the IP version of the printer showed up, whereas the Bonjour one shows up right away. Then add the IP instance of the printer. This is for printers on a network.

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WHen I print the same image from Preview, with the same print driver settings, it looks fine. So somehow the adobe apps (or my settings) are messing up the color sync.
I used to have an espon 2400 which worked just fine.
I have Mac OSX-10.9.1. Monitor is calibrated. (Prints to epson paper with their profiles look great...it's just other profiles that are really bad).
I need help!

Are you using moab icc profiles or are you using one of the epson profiles?
I always use the moab profiles which you can download from their Web site. This way you are matching the specific epson printer with the specific moab paper.
At that point you change the printer manages color to Lightroom manages color and select the specific profile. Very easy to do - they even have instructions on the Moab site for installing the profiles if you haven't done that.
Once installed you can also use them through the system print dialogs in PS but it is really much much easier to use in LR - Since coming on board with LR last summer, I have switched to doing ALL printing from LR. Since you mentioned that you are having the same problem with LR and PS, I'm betting you are using epson profiles and this will solve your problem.
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I have an i5 iMac running OS x 10.8.4 that I recently migrated to (about 3 months now) from a PC. My Epson 3880 printer and 1400 printer will not print from Photoshop CS6 or Lightroom 4. I have printed text and less intensive graphics to the 1400. When I print from these apps all I get in the progress is "Stopped - 'filter' failed". It does not tell me what 'filter has failed. I have deleted and reinstalled, restarted, googled the crap out of it and I see many having this issue up and a few have been solved but whenever I try one of the fixes listed - nothing.
Now when I try to print, say from mail, the 1400 is no longer printing at all, same message.
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Also, still can't find the generic ICC profiles for Epson that used to be installed with the driver (ie for glossy, matte photo paper). One support forum did mention the location where the 3880 ICC profiles were buried and I found them and dragged them out. No luck with the 1400 yet.
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Select "/var/log/cups/error_log" from the file list on the left side of the Console window. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar. Then select the messages from the time of the last failed printing attempt. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Trying to get Photoshop CS4 functional with Mavericks and an Epson 3880 printer. CS4 fails to send a file to the print queue. Have reinstalled the Epson 3880 driver for Mavericks. All looks good but no file is sent.

rying to get Photoshop CS4 functional with Mavericks and an Epson 3880 printer. CS4 fails to send a file to the print queue. Have reinstalled the Epson 3880 driver for Mavericks. All looks good but no file is sent.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

What EXACT version of Photoshop CS4 are you running? You should be on Photoshop CS4 v 11.0.2.
Also run Apple's software update to see whether it offers you the latest Epson update:
Printer Driver v9.33
Epson Stylus Pro 3880, Drivers & Downloads - Technical Support - Epson America, Inc.
MOST IMPORTANTLY: have Photoshop re-create its own Preferences:
To re-create the preferences files for Photoshop, start the application while holding down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS). Then, click Yes to the message, "Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file?"
Note: If this process doesn't work for you while you're using a wireless (Bluetooth) keyboard, attach a wired keyboard and retry.
Important: If you re-create the preferences by manually deleting the Adobe Photoshop CS6 Settings file, make sure that you only delete that file. If you delete the entire settings folder, you also delete any unsaved actions or presets.
Reinstalling Photoshop does not remove the preferences file. Before reinstalling Photoshop, re-create your preferences.
NEW Video! Julieanne Kost created a video that takes you through two ways of resetting your Photoshop preferences. The manual preference file removal method is between 0:00 - 5:05. The keyboard shortcut method is between 5:05 - 8:18. The video is located here:
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Important: Apple made the user library folder hidden by default with the release of Mac OS X 10.7. If you require access to files in the hidden library folder to perform Adobe-related troubleshooting, see How to access hidden user library files.

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My Epson 3880 printer is connected to my Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion with a USB cable. Since changing to Mountain Lion, I have been unable to print. I've replaced the driver on the original software disc with the current driver shown on the Epson website with no improvement. The message I get tells me that the printer is "not communicating" with the Macbook. Any thoughts on how to fix this would be great.

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My first 17x22 print from Lightroom to my Epson 3880 didn't complete the entire image. After 10.75" of the photo, it kept repeating the first 0.5" of it down to the bottom of the printed area.
I called Epson. At their suggestion I printed a saved Jpeg version of the same image with no problem. They said this must be a Lightroom issue, and I believe it is. Didn't find any good answers on the web.
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Sean,
I'm using 16 bit output because that is recommended for highest quality by Julieanne Kost and others. I've used 16 bit output for the same image with 8.5"x11" prints with no problems.
And Lightroom should be able to handle this image!
With a 3880, compromise shouldn't be necessary. The workarounds get results, perhaps only with loss of time and not loss of quality.
I tried a few more things.
A different image printed out normally through LR on the C paper.
I double-checked on the first image that I tried. This has trees with plenty of leaves in the top half (high "information content")
But that had the same problem as before with the normal process, and settings as above, with the cache at 50G.
So you're right that the larger cache didn't solve the problem.
I tried two things:
Saved as TIFF instead of Jpeg. The TIFF file was 84.9M vs. 11.3 for the Jpeg, so I wanted to see if it posed memory problems.
Worked OK for the TIFF printed from Preview, as it had for the Jpeg. With LR closed. I suppose that conserved system memory, but I'm not sure exactly how printing is implemented in LR.
Then I tried another experiment. From the LR Print module, with settings as above, I saved a PDF. This is a branch. Earlier I had the corrupted print problem when I displayed a PDF and then printed from that, with LR still open. That didn't work. In the new experiment, I closed LR and everything else, and restarted the computer.
The saved PDF file is rather large - 3.52GB. Nevertheless, I opened it with Adobe Reader, used the OS Page and Printer setups as above, and was able to make a good print.
If it could be done this way, it should be possilbe for LR to do the same thing while open. Right?
To evaluate your suggestion, Sean, I would need to do something like printing the other image with 8 bit output, in order to determine whether I can see a difference in quality from the version that printed normally with 16 bit output.
I've been a persistent engineer/mathematician, and don't rest until I've solved a problem!
It would be nice if Adobe had a customer service line for dealing with this kind of problem. I'm a computer/image processing scientist, but not an Adobe programmer!
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Frank

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Lightroom 4.4. Mac OS 10.8.3
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MrhoniKeith wrote:
I received 2 custom color profiles and put them into /Library/ColorSync/Profiles. From Lightroom Print module, I can bring in these 2 profiles and they can now be choices. I select one of them as the Color Management Profile in the Print Module and then click the Print button.
So far, so good.
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In LR, you always select Default Settings (not a custom setting) for the driver because LR stores all the pertinent info in the print template. Now if you were printing in say Photoshop, a custom preset would be fine and save you some time in having to always configure the print driver. But not in LR!

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