Lightroom printing problem Epson R1800, XP SP2, colors dark

I'm having no success with printing from Lightroom 1.3.1, with a quite new Epson R1800, on an IBM R51 with Windows XP SP2.
Printing is fine, using Epson's Easy Photo Print, and PhotoShop Elements 2.0. In fact, the results with Epson's Easy Photo Print and Elements 2.0 are almost identical.
I played with ICM on, off, downloaded new Epson icc profiles for glossy paper, loaded new cartridges, cleaned nozzles, etc.
And I searched this users forum and the general web. Sounds like printing problems with Lightroom is pretty normal.
Any other clues or hints to solve the problem? Seems pretty stupid that Lightroom can't be used to print.
...Vick

Vick,
I'm new to printing on my Epson 1800 and am sure others know more than I do, but this might be a start since I had the same problem printing from Photoshop CS3 on a R1800 and R200. I think the problem is in the printer properties/printer dialog setup and since the problem is the same maybe the solution is also the same.
In Lightroom click File - Print Settings or, to get to the same place, click File - Print and click the Page Setup or Print Settings or Print button. Whichever, it takes you to the print setup for the 1800. Click Properties which takes you to the Epson Stylus Photo 1800 Properties window. In the bottom right, click Advanced button. A "note" warning about making changes pops up. Click continue. Under the Main tab, color management make sure ICM is NOT selected. I have "Color Controls" selected. Click OK (twice I think) to get back to the Lightroom print window. This corrected the dark colors problem I was having. When printing in PS3 it asks, "Did you enable color management in the printer dialog?" Somewhere else I found the suggestion to disable ICM color management when printing from PS3. So much to know!! Hope this helps.
Allen Round

Similar Messages

  • Help with Aperture 3 printing to Epson R1800 please

    No I haven't got the wrong forum, I think I will get the best answer here. I am a fully paid up member of the Lightroom 2 club and like to use both as I am sure others here do.
    I cannot get a good print from Aperture 3, there is always a slight magenta colour cast. Prints from Lightroom and CS4 are perfect! And yes all settings are correct, I am not a beginer at this. This is with custom Permajet paper profiles and with Colormunki profiles. And as I have said prints from Lightroom and CS4 using a digital dog test print are spot on.
    I remember back in earlier versions of Lightroom printing to the R1800 was problematic and the only way to get round this was to go into the ColorSync Utility and and under Devices and then the default Epson Media type, change the Current Profile to the paper profile that you wished to use. It now seems that this is also the only solution for A3. Doing this will give me an identical print to LR and CS4.
    Now was this a problem with Lightroom or the R1800 driver? I am using the latest driver V6.23.  Also I am using Aperture 3.0.2 and OSX 10.6.3.
    I would be grateful for any help.

    Hi Ian,
    I am glad to hear you're getting good prints from LR and CS4. I am not aware of any outstanding issues with print color management in Lightroom (the print path is pretty solid and conforms to the OS requirements, and will perform correctly as long as the driver also conforms to the OS requirements; many recent drivers do, some older ones do not).
    FYI, I understand you feel that there are forum participants here who may be able to help answer your question with Aperture. Though that may indeed be the case, that does not make it an appropriate use of this forum. (As an analogy, many forum participants here are also well-qualified to answer Photoshop questions, but Photoshop questions should be directed to the Photoshop forum, instead of here.)
    Eric

  • CS 5.1 won't print 13x19 print on Epson R1800 printer.  Other sizes will print.  Suggestion?

    CS 5.1 won't print 13x19 print on Epson R1800 printer.  Other sizes will print.  Epson offered suggestions and said it relats to Photoshop.  Anyone else have this issue?

    You'll get better answers on that in the proper PS forum...
    Mylenium

  • Crash in LR2.5 printing to Epson R1800

    I'm running LR 2.5 on a Mac - OS X 10.5.8 - and trying to print to my Epson R1800 on Firewire interface.   When I select that printer from LR either in Print Settings or Print (even before hitting the print button), I get an immediate LR crash.  Printing to the R1800 from CS2 works fine, and printing from LR to another (non Firewire) printer also works fine.   I've downloaded and installed the latest drivers from Epson (no joy), have reloaded LR 2.5 after deleting LR prefs and application support files (also no joy), and have backed up to LR 2.4 with the same results.
    When I just tried switching the R1800 to a USB connection and reinstalling the printer as a USB, LR got even more unhappy and crashed right when I clicked on the Print Settings button in LR.
    I'd appreciate any thoughts about new things to try.   Guess I can always keep exporting to CS2 and printing from there, but that shouldn't be necessary.
    Thanks,

    You probably have a corrupt print template. To check this you should temporarily remove the templates (i.e. move them out of the Lightroom presets folder). You can do this fairly easily from Lightroom Preferences panel. Open Preferences and choose Presets tab, then click on button labelled Show Lightroom Presets folder... This should open an OS window with the Lightroom folder already highlighted. Open the LIghtroom folder, locate the Print Templates subfolder, then drag it out to your desktop. Restart Lightroom, which will automatically recreate the folder and default presets. Now click on the Print Setting button to check if crashes are stopped. Assuming above fixes the problem you can then drag the print templates back into the newly created Lightroom folder one at a time. Obvioulsy, you will need retry Lightroom Print Settings after each.

  • Dark prints with Epson R1800

    Having upgraded to Snow Leopard, when I print to my Epson R1800 from Lightroom or Photoshop, the prints are extremely dark, and a bit oversaturated. I am printing by choosing a paper profile, and turning off color management in the driver. This worked perfectly before Snow Leopard. If I tell Lightroom to let the printer manage color, then use Epson Vivid with Gamma 1.8, the print is reasonably good. But if I can not choose a profile, I will be limited to only Epson papers.
    The latest Apple update for Epson print drivers only contains the Gutenprint driver for the R1800, so I downloaded the latest Snow Leopard drivers directly from Epson. I believe I thoroughly removed the existing drivers before installing.
    I am seeing some discussion about this here and other places online, but no solutions that work so far.

    Wait a second, I just realized something very important. If you go to the Epson Drivers page for the R1800...
    http://tinyurl.com/2gp4g9
    The first link there is a Drivers and Utilities Combo Package for MacOS 10.6 (i.e. Snow Leopard). But the driver that this combo package actually contains is version 6.12, which as listed further down the page, is from 12/18/2007.
    So in other words, there really is no Snow Leopard support for the R1800.
    Also, the R1800 is not in the product list on the Epson Snow Leopard page...
    http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/SupportSnowLeopard.jsp

  • Print CD Epson R1800

    Found a work around to CD print driver problem for R1800 in Leopard. (Epson site no help.)
    1. Open Print CD
    2. Command Print.
    3. Ignore Error Message "Epson printer driver dealing with CD printing is not installed."
    4. Select "Manual Print"
    5. In "Page Setup" window choose as paper size "A4(CD/DVD)"
    6. In "Print" window, select "Print Settings" then as "Media Type" choose "CD/DVD"
    7. Hit print.
    Cumbersome, but works fine (for now).

    This finally worked for me too (using a Stylus Photo 1400) with the addition of choosing Tray 2 before selecting Manual Print.

  • Printing problem: epson R2880 , CS5 + 6, OS Mountain Lion

    Hi There,
    First of all apologies if this is in the wrong thread, If so, could an admin please move it to a correct one?
    I have searched google and these forums for an asnwer but am still having the same problem.
    Since upgrading to Mountain Lion (from Snow leopard) my prints are not coming out well at all, it's mostly the reds which ae not vibrant at all, and coming out very orange.
    I have tried numurous variations of settings:
    photoshops manages colors, printer manages colors, relative,perceptual, made sure printer maanages colors is off, different paper types etc.
    *I took screen shots of every setting to match to the prints so can post if neccesarry
    I have also tried printing from Preview and LR 4, still having the same problem.
    I even tried printing on a different machine with Snow Leopard installed (but was foreced to update to the latest Epson driver (9.0.2).
    Does anyone have any idea where the problem could be?
    I've been trying to print my portfolio for an important meeting and this has taken up about a full day of trial/error tests.
    OS: Mountain Lion
    Printer: epson R2880 (Px 5600 in Japan) Driver (9.0.2)
    Paper: epson Photo crispia / Superfine Matte (making sure to switch out the matte blak and photo black cartridges eveytime)
    SW: CS5, CS6, LR 4
    Thanks in advance,
    Jake

    Apologies for the legth of this post but it needs it.
    For 3 years I have struggled to get a B&W print without a magenta colour cast.
    My old printer, an Epson 1400, only had 1 black so I thought this was to blame and bought a new Epson R2880 with 3 blacks earlier this year..
    My setup is
    CS5
    Fotospeed paper
    Fotospeed Crystal dye inks
    Profiles for each paper.
    A calibrated screen
    Windows 7
    All drivers etc are up to date.
    Because it was originally loaded with Epson inks, I used the Advanced B&W (ABW) setting to print B&W photos, which were actually very good considering I wasn't using Epson paper. When the Epson ink ran out, I changed to Fotospeed Crystal dye inks with profiles.
    I have successfully printed colour photos with the new setup for a couple of months.
    Yesterday I had a batch of photos to print so I set the system up to Photoshop Manages Colour etc (PMC). ( I know what I am doing here)
    The first, a colour print, printed OK.
    Because the second was a B&W, I did a test print using ABW and then a test print using PMC. The ABW had a magenta colour cast, the PMC printed B&W so I printed actual size with PMC and it worked great.
    The third photo, another B&W, I again used PMC and did a small test print - it printed magenta. This was only minutes after printing photo 2.
    I did the usual messing around with perceptual and relative col. and quality and max. quality setting, PSD v Tiff etc. and everything came out magenta.
    Shutdown PC and went to bed. Printer remained switched on to save on ink cleaning routines.
    Today.
    Booted up PC.
    Did a small test print using PMC and it came out B&W - no colour cast. ??????
    Printed full size and it came out B&W no colour cast. On checking the print I noticed some blown highlights so went back into CS5 and did some adjustments to recover the highlights.
    Tried a small test print with PMC and it printed magenta. Again, only minutes between the two prints and it goes from B&W to magenta.
    Closed everything down and did a PC restart. Tried again with PMC and still magenta.
    Several magenta attempts later and I nearly gave up the will to live.
    Had a brainwave - I have Canon Digital Photo Professional on my machine as I use Canon cameras so I tried to directly print from the Canon software.
    If this printed B&W then it would indicate a problem between CS5 and Epson. If it didn't work then it would absolve CS5
    The software allows you to select paper profiles etc in a similar way to CS5 and I also set up the Epson software as no colour adjustment (just like when you use CS5)
    Tried a test print and it printed B&W.
    Went straight away into CS5 and printed the same test photo using PMC and it printed magenta.
    Went straight back to the Canon software and printed a full size print and it printed B&W.
    Can someone from Adobe please explain why
    CS5 and the Canon software must be using the same print driver yet one of them is successful and the other isn't?
    Why, when using CS5 to manage colours, two prints, two minutes apart can change from B&W to magenta?
    It suggests to me that the CS5 software is not handling the Epson driver correctly (or vice versa) and double profiling is occuring. In any event users of these products should rightly expect one of you to pick up the ball and run with it and not just blame each other.
    So my third question is - will Adobe run with the ball?

  • Printing with epson r1800

    When I attempt to print an image from Aperture with my Epson R1800 why am I presented with two sets of print options? One is built into Aperture which I dully wade through. Then when I press the print button I move on to Epson's options, which for the most part undo or ignore those set up in Aperture.
    This is very odd, anyone know how to turn off the Epson options?

    To quote a famous guide, "Do not panic!"
    All the work has already been done for you...
    http://blogs.oreilly.com/aperture/2008/06/printing-tips.html
    Tony

  • Lightroom printing problem

    I am encountering an issue while printing from Lightroom ( I recently upgraded from Lightroom 4 to Lightroom 4.4) to an Epson Stylus Pro 3800. Using Epson 13 x 19 paper, and printing an image that should be 11 x 18, the result is a portion of the image, measuring 10" wide x 6 7/8" high, being printed. I have tried this with several images with the same result although the exact dimensions of the printed result vary. It does appear the resulting image, on horizontal image, is the lower left area of the image. On the vertical attempt, it is the upper left portion of the image. Does anyone have an idea?
    David

    I have been having the same problem with my Epson 3880 with LR 5.3. Some templates seemed to work OK but then inexplicably I'll get only part of the image in portion of the intended printing area. Particularly with larger paper sizes like 17x22", which gets expensive. This happened repeatedly after checking all the dialog boxes and page setup over and over again. When I take the image to PS from LR it will print fine there. But it would be preferable to be able to go to lightroom and use the templates if I could sort it out.
    I'm using Mac 10.9.2.

  • Lightroom printing problems

    I am running Lightroom 1.3.1 on a new Mac Pro '08 with a calibrated 23" ADC and an Epson R2400 with the latest driver (6.12).
    When printing from LR, the color of the prints is off. I have the proper printer/paper profile selected in LR along with "Relative". Color management is turned off in the R2400 driver.
    However, I get excellent results in Photoshop CS3 using the same settings. I've attached an example image to give you an idea. The first image is a scanned print made in PS CS3, and it looks identical to what I see on my monitor. The second image is a print made from LR - notice how much more yellow and anemic it looks.
    What could be causing this?
    Lightroom
    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2049/2216911803_6b7126bf3a.jpg
    Photoshop
    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/2217706530_6ee60a2964.jpg

    Hi Chris (and everyone else!)
    I've been having exactly the same issues running a nearly identical system but on a MacBook Pro with an external Eizo 24" monitor for critical work. My results also mirror yours ie slightly greener and darker prints from LR than PS.
    I've spent literally hours troubleshooting this as I own a digital imaging company that offers printing and colour management to our customers, many of whom have the same setups and same issues. Well I'm glad to say that I seem to have found a (temporary) fix. Read on and let me know your thoughts...
    If you go into the Apple ColorSync Utility (in the Utilities folder on your hard drive) then follow these steps I'm pretty sure you'll get accurate prints that match Photoshops output.
    Step 1 Open ColorSync Utility and click on the Devices button at the top of the window.
    Step 2 Click on the grey arrow to reveal the Printers list
    Step 3 Click on the grey arrow next to "EPSON Stylus Photo R2400"
    Step 4 Locate the profile that relates to the media setting that was used when you created your custom profile. For example I create most of my custom profiles for gloss or satin media using the Premium Semi Gloss media setting so in Colorsync Utility I choose "SPR2400 PremiumSemigloss"
    Step 5 Click on the arrow next the text "Current Profile:" and choose Other...
    Step 6 From the window that opens, choose the profile that you are using to print through in Lightroom, as an example I choose "R24 IlfSmGls PSG NCA" as this is the profile I made to print on Ilford Smooth Gloss and the one I'm selecting in Lightroom.
    Step 7 Click on OK to accept this change and ensure that it's actually changed in the ColorSync Utility window. If everythings OK then close Colorsync Utility and return to Lightroom.
    Step 8 Print from Lightroom, choose the exact same profile and rendering intent that you would normally, click on the Print... button, make sure the preset is set to Standard then select the matching media setting and quality settings that were used to create the profile (as you would when printing from Photoshop), remember to check that No Color Adjustment is set in this part of the driver.
    Step 9 Click on the Print button and in a minute or so you should get a print that matches your Photoshop output and more importantly matches your 'calibrated' screen.
    Step 10 Presuming this works save this setup as a template in Lightroom for future use.
    This may seem long winded in text form but it's a one time operation and I wanted to make sure that every step was included for clarity.
    What I feel is happening is that there is a double profiling issue with print stream from Lightroom to the the Epson driver (v6.12) and by selecting the identical profile in both places we are ensuring that no conversion takes place in the driver, something that simply setting "No Color Adjustment" usually achieves in Photoshop and other older applications that use a different print stream to Lightroom. Also note that even when your profiles are set this way in the Colorsync Utility there is no difference in accuracy or colour when you leave it set like this and print as usual from Photoshop.
    I've emailed Adobe with my findings and also contacted Epson UK (although Epson haven't returned my call), so I'm hoping that we may be a step closer to getting a resolution, or at least an understanding and explanation of what exactly is happening.
    Hope you all find this useful, but if you have any questions feel free to ask either on the forum or emailing me directly at jason at replica-imaging.co.uk.
    Cheers for now - got to give my fingers a rest!
    Jason

  • Panoramic print problem epson 3800

    I set up a custom page of 40 x 13 inch, put the cell size in for the picture size i require and set everything else.  print preview shows the print as i want it, but when it prints it only does a small portion of the print the wrong way round.  Is there something in lightroom i'm missing or is it to do with the printer (epson 3800) setting.  paper is fed via sheet feeder, which i had done successfully on 2400 previously.    

    I rencently have a problem using custom paper size with an Epson 3800 and Lightroom. It may not be the same problem. I was not able to determine or understand if it was an LR or an Epson driver (Mac OS 10.5.6) error.
    I use Moab Chinle "square" album (12"x13"). When I was printing this paper size, I got almost always half-printed page. I have tried many things but the last setting I modified solved my problem.
    By setting the longest side to the height of the paper in the custom page definition, I do not have half-printed page anymore.
    Hope this will help.

  • Epson Printer problem "Epson Stylus Photo PX710W" - solved!

    Hello All,
    My system: OS 10.6.4
    I am posting this in the hope that it is useful to someone. Firstly, the printer is great. However, I had a really frustrating time trying to print via Iwork, Iphoto or print off an email directly in a web browser. Each time I did this an error appeared stating there was an error with the library and it failed to print. For me, I really wanted to be able to print from, say the Apple word processing programme "Pages", or print of emails with important details etc. So I persevered and finally came to a solution!
    After contacting Epson (and Apple!) a few times one Epson guy gave me the following instructions. Please note I accept no loss or damage directly or indirectly from following this advice if you have the same problem of not being able to print out emails in browsers or print from Iwork, or Iphoto, whether you choose to follow this advice or not is solely your responsibility, however this worked for me:
    EMAIL FROM THE EPSON ENGINEER
    From the information you have provided, it would suggest that either a communication problem is present or the Mac is unable to display the EPSON driver in the Printer Browser.
    It is recommended that all EPSON Printers are removed and re-installed and you repair the communications.
    To uninstall your printer:
    1. Make sure that the EPSON printer is connected to the Mac through a direct USB connection (not through a Hub or the Keyboard) and switched on.
    2. Make sure that the Mac is on and booted.
    3. In the Mac Hard Drive/Applications/Utilities open the Printer Set-up Utility.
    4. Remove all the references to the printer model.
    5. Disconnect the printer from the computer.
    6. We will now remove the EPSON Printer driver from the system and delete the drivers that you downloaded.
    Go to the Mac Hard Drive/Library/Printer and move the complete EPSON folder to the trash. Warning this removes all EPSON Printers.
    7. Also remove any drivers that were previously downloaded to the trash if the file name does not match that from our web site.
    8. Restart the Mac.
    9. Empty the trash.
    10. Now we will run a repair utility that may take up to 30 minutes to complete so please plan for this. Go to Mac Hard Drive/Applications/Utilities and open the Disk Utility.
    11. Select Disk First Aid at the top of the dialogue box.
    12. Select the Mac Hard Drive Icon in the left hand pane.
    13. Select Repair Permissions at the bottom of the dialogue box.
    14. When this has completed restart the Mac. Power the printer on and ensure that it is directly connected to a USB port on the Mac and not via a third party device such as a USB hub.
    You will now need to download the driver/s from the Epson website. Please connect to the Epson website via the link below:
    http://www.epson.co.uk/support
    Type in your product in the search field and then select the correct model. Then select your operating system if this is not automatically selected. Then please click the down arrow next to drivers and downloads and download the printer driver for your printer and ensure this starts in the Download Manager. The file may be in a SIT format, which requires Stuffit Expander to expand the compressed files, if you have not installed Stuffit, it is available from:
    http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander
    Please try the following to install and add the driver:
    1. Locate the downloaded file, if in a SIT format, this requires Stuffit Expander so have Stuffit running.
    2. If the file is a .DMG file, you do not require Stuffit, double-click the downloaded EPSON driver file and this will expand to reveal the dmg file and mounted drive.
    3. Double-click the blue VISE icon when presented.
    4. Follow the on screen prompts to install the driver, restarting the Mac when necessary.
    5. Once restarted the driver needs adding to the printer list. To do this please go into the hard disk, go into the folder called Applications, double click on the folder called ‘Utilities’. You should see in this window the ‘Printer Setup Utility', double click on this icon. This will present the Printer List.
    6. Delete any reference to the printer that may be on this list already as these may not be the genuine EPSON driver.
    7. Click the add icon at the top and a dialogue box will appear, this will be the Printer Browser.
    8. Next highlight the printer and then select add printer. Note: Do not choose a printer from the list of Epson printers. Your printer will not appear here, nor will the genuine Epson driver. You should be able to highlight the printer and choose 'Add'. If 'Add' is not available, leave the Printer Browser open and do not do anything else on the Mac, leave it open for about 10 minutes. When you come back to it, you should now find 'Add' available.
    9. The printer should now be added to the printer list. Test the printer by highlighting it on the Printer List and selecting 'Utility'. The EPSON Printer Utility will appear, ensure paper is loaded and select to print a 'Nozzle Check'.
    If you have an All in One, then to install the scanner component, locate the downloaded EPSON Scan driver and double-click this. The files will unstuff and a window will appear with the EPSON Scan Installer. Double-click this icon to initiate the installation.
    11. Once installed, restart the Mac and the scanner should be ready to use. You can test this by going to: Applications : EPSON Scan.
    If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.
    Regards
    Steven Wood
    e-Service Support Technician

    Here was an easy-ish way which I did it:
    Step 1) Install the bloated, piece of garbage Epson software so that you have a copy of the driver, or alternatively, just install the driver.
    Step 2) go into your router (http://192.168.0.1, user: admin, pass: admin) and set up what's called static ID. Just figure out the MAC address of your printer and assign a unique static ID to it, ie 192.168.0.100
    Step 3) go into system preferences> printers> add printer (+)> IP> Line Printer Daemon - LPD and as the address give it the static address you assigned (192.168.0.100). If you installed the driver, it should automatically detect and select it.
    VOILA!

  • Printing with Epson/PS CS3- missing color sync options

    When I try to print images from PS CS3 with my Epson Stylus Photo 2100, my print-box doesn't give me option "Color sync" anymore. I used to be able to choose whether to use Color sync or No Color management. I have downloaded all the latest drivers I have found from epson, but no help.

    What OS version, driver version?
    CS3 was one strange beast when it came to printing. Seems it had  elements of both Apple printing paths and depending on what OS version and driver version you are using you will get different results.  I have no trust what so ever printing from CS3.
    It does seem on a box running 10.6.3 and CS3 here that the 8.19 driver for the 9600 is working correctly like a application using Apple's new print path when PS Manages Color is selected. In the driver under Color Matching, ColorSync is correctly grayed out and under Print Settings, Color Settings is defaulted (grayed out) to Off (No Color Adjustment. This is the correct behavior.
    Now if you're trying to use Printer Manages Color, in the driver under Color Matching, Epson Color Controls is incorrectly grayed out  and there is no way to choose ColorSync. If this is what you are talking about you should try PS Manages Color. This happens in CS3 and CS4. In CS5 when choosing Printer Manages Color, in the driver under Color Matching, nothing is grayed out  and and you can choose ColorSync. Just maybe Adobe and Epson have finally caught up with Apple's new printing path, but then again this could still be a moving target.

  • Default Printer Problem - Epson 9800 and 9900

    OK. I attended the Epson Academy meeting in Chicago yesterday - -and I learned several new things.
    None of the Epson speakers, however, ever heard about an issue that is my problem:
    Blacks are blocking up on my 9800 used with MK. I am printing on Somerset Velvet for Epson.
    I am using an Intel MacPro with OS 10.5.6 - and Photoshop CS4. I have a new Epson 9900 on a USB line - and my old 9800 on a Firewire connection.
    I posted earlier that my 9800 is now dedicated as an MK printer (I gave my 9600 to an art department).
    My new 9900 is designated as the DEFAULT printer - on the MacPro with OS 10.5.6 - and Photoshop CS4.
    When I send a print to the 9800 (not designated as the default printer) - it appears to ignore my profiles - and prints huge BLACK areas where there should be detail - and some grays.
    I sent the same file to my 9900 - after switching it to MK from PK - and the print was perfect - matched my profiled monitor exactly - and was the same as a previous print done with MK on the 9600.
    So - today I am back in the studio and doing some research - and some experiments (putting my science Ph.D to work).
    At the suggestion of Epson's people yesterday, I reloaded the print driver (from Epson) for the 9800.
    I then Used Print-Fax (on the Mac - system preferences) to delete the 9800 from my list - and then re-added it (it is on a firewire link).
    I made another print - and (drum roll...) it is still filled with Blocked-Up Blacks.
    And so, I did the test that I mentioned doing earlier here:
    I went back to Print-Fax - and I designated the 9800 as the DEFAULT printer.
    I then made another print and (more drum rolls.....) - the print is PERFECT - matches the print from my old 9600 and the new 9900 with MK.
    So - the problem is that under OS 10.5.6 - and with an Intel MacPro - and with Photoshop CS4 - the 9800 MUST BE SELECTED AS THE DEFAULT PRINTER.
    My next test is to send the same file to my 9900 - with MK - with the 9900 NOT designated as the default (leaving the 9800 in that role).
    I want to be able to have both printers working (as in actually printing) at the same time so that I can keep up with Fine Art and canvas jobs.
    Will I have to switch the Default-Designated Printer for each job ? What will happen if I de-select the 9800 while it is printing???
    Stay tuned.
    In my former life, as a professor, I could apply for federal grants to do my research. Maybe I should send a bill to someone for ink, paper, and time.
    There is a problem here- but it could be Epson, Apple, or Adobe at this point.
    Dick Sjolund
    http://www.wilderness-studio.com

    Jeff,
    My sincere apologies -- I asked John Caponigro - who sent me over to Andrew - and we sat and talked right next to you ... maybe I needed a few minutes at the end of the meeting for more Qs. and As.
    So - now that we know there really IS a problem -- how do we fix it???
    What will happen if I am sending a job to the 9800 - with MK - designated as my default printer - and then, at the same time - send a job to the 9900 - but now select it as the default printer in the middle of the 9800's job?
    Any chance that OS 10.5.7 will fix this - or do we wait and start-over with 10.6 (Snow Leopard)?
    It was a great Epson session in Chicago - you were terrific - and I'm not at all surprised to learn that you knew the answer.
    Dick
    And - this just in ----
    With the 9800 Epson designated as the DEFAULT printer, I sent a job to the 9900 (now no longer the default) - and (even more drum rolls....) the print is perfect.
    So - it appears to be an EPSON - APPLE problem specific to the 9800 (in my case).
    If you have more than one printer - test the problem by changing the DEFAULT status around in Print-Fax.
    And - thanks, again, Jeff.
    Dick Sjolund
    http://www.wilderness-studio.com

  • Edge to edge printing problem epson 9800

    I need to know if my problem is a user error problem or is it an inherent problem within the latest driver from Epson 9800. I believe I'm setting everything correctly within the driver to be able to print an edge to edge poster, size ranging for 44" width to 24" width, I haven't had troubles before printing from a windoze machine. Whatever settings I have for the Mac it just won't print. Any help would be most appreciated.

    My name is Syd and I work for Epson America, Inc.
    The driver may be corrupted or there may be Apple driver interfering. Here are the steps to remove all Epson driver and re-install a fresh copy of the driver:
    1. Go to System Preference > Print & Fax.
    2. Highlight the Epson printer and click - to delete.
    3. Go to MAC HD > Library > Printers.
    4. Drag the whole Epson Folder to the trash.
    5. Go to Epson.com and download the Printer Driver v6.11 from your printer's support site.
    6. Install the Package.
    7. Download the Common Updater 7.0 from the printer's support site and install it.
    8. Once installed restart the computer.
    9. Once restarted, make sure the printer is on and connected. Go to System Preference > Print & Fax.
    10. Make sure the printer is added here
    Try printing again.
    Hope this helps,
    Syd

Maybe you are looking for