Magenta print preview in Photoshop w/ Epson 3880

Just got an Epson 3880 printer. When controlling with photoshop (cs5, Windows 7, 64 bit), print preview is extremely magenta. Previewing to an Epson R220 is fine, as is previewing to the 3880 from MSWord. Tried myriad settings with little variations in results; all were poor. Using printer managing did give credible results.

check the colour settings, maybe they got changed.
edit > color settings
what is it set to? north american general purpose?
the second thing to look at is what printer profile are you using?

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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.
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The print preview isn't all that important to me. But without this possibility I really, really would like to see softproofing in LR.
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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")
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So you're right that the larger cache didn't solve the problem.
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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.
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Elements was working fine with epson 3880.
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