Printing problem - Lightroom 4

I'm not able to print photos from lightroom 4 ver 4.4.1; using windows 8 with HP photosmart printer c310a. Printer software has been removed and reinstalled. Can print from all other s/w applications but not Lightroom. Any suggestions how to resolve this issue?

Mary Ann,
I'm having the same problem. It appears that changing the print option to "let LR manage colors" doesn't save and hence the color shift.
- Joe

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Lightroom 1.3.1 Printing Problems with Apple OSX 10.5 (aka Leopard)

Whilst the majority the majority of Leopard related print issues were addressed when Adobe updated Lightroom to 1.3.1 and printer vendors released updated drivers some issues remained and it has been left to users to establish workarounds. One such proven workaround is presented below:
Information and text by Jason Hicking
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.
Attached screenshot of ColorSync Utility provided by Ian Lyons
A Lightroom print tutorial is also provided at: http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr_13_print/lightroom_print.htm

Well, maybe, CS3 is the only one fully compatible, but Photoshop CS and CS2 will work...mostly. There are a couple of niggling little problems, but I have been able to do what I want, one way or another, with CS1. Elements 2 is, like PS7, a dead letter in Leopard, but Elements 3 and 4 work. Of course, these older programs run in Rosetta, being non-Intel native, and so my MacPro runs them at the same speed as my old G4 dual 800. I'm looking forward to a speed boost when my Xmas upgrade to CS3 is installed.
Francine
Francine
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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 5.44 printing problem

I am using Lightroom 5.44 on two computers: (1) MacTower with OS X 10.7.5 and a (2) MacBook with OS X 10.7.5. I also use Adobe CS6. (Neither can upgraded to the latest version of Mac OS X). I am printing to an Epson R1800 on a wifi network. After upgrading to Lightroom 5.44 I was able to print two glossy 13x19 images on the Epson R1800 by subsequent efforts to print all hang up at the preparing image for printing stage. I reinstalled Lightroom 5.44 and the printing problem repsisted. I reinstalled the Epson R1800 printer software/drivers and the proble persists. I am able to print other images from Photoshop CS6 on the MacTower and from Lightroom 5.44 on the MacBook. Thus the problem appears to be in LIghtroom 5.44 on the MacTower and is not resolve by reinstalling Lightroom.
I note that the Apple Console log has multiple meesages and reports in reponse to the print job, including the following:
5/1/14 1:56:35.291 PM Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5: Could not find image named 'LayoutDirection1.png'.
Is this an Adobe Photshop LIghtroom 5 problem or a Mac OS 10.7.5 problem or both? How should I proceed?

I have an SSD drive that has my OS and applications. I looked in the Macintosh SSD/Users/[my username]/Library/Preferences/ directory and I do not have a com.adobe.Lightroom5.plist file.
My old Macintosh HD drive has been renamed "Macintosh HD Archive" and I now use it for file archiving. it has a Marcintosh HD Archive/Users/[my user name]/Library/Preferences/ directory which contains the preference files for my older versions of Lightroom (Lightroom, Lightroom2, and Lightroom3).
After I installed the SSD drive and used it as my startup disk I have used Lightroom 4 and Lightroom 5.
Lightroom4 and LIghtroom5 have been installed on the SSD drive. I deleted Lightroom 4 after I installed Lightroom 5.
There is no com.adobe.Lightroom5.plist list file on my Macintosh SSD drive or on my MacIntosh HD Archive drive.
Perhaps the printing problem is due to a failure to create these files with the installation of Lightroom 5.44 on the SSD drive.
I do not recgnize the name "LayoutDirection1.png" as significant any of my images, but its occurence in the console log in association with Lightroom5 at the times print attempt failed suggested that the hangup was due to a missing file.

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

Printing Problems with Lightroom!!

I am completely new to Lightroom and was hoping that someone could help with my printing problem. I have been taking all my photo's in both JPEG and RAW versions for flexibility and I have not carried out any development to any of the photo's yet. I have tried going straight to the print module and tried print a basic copies, however the pictures print in very dark tones like the picture was taken in very bad light and there are some blue vertical lines appearing on each copy. Please note that this happens with both the JPEG and RAW pictures. I have ruled out the printer as a problem because I can print out the same photo via the software that came with my printer and they look great, just as they appear on the screen. Is there something that I am doing wrong? Hopefully there is a quick answer!!
Many Thanks,
Gareth.

Sorry for the delay, I seem to be experiencing delays with this website.
OK here goes:
Under the Color Mangement Banner on Lightroom it has profile with managed by the printer next to it. Underneath that is Rendering Intent with perceptual by it, but these are blacked out.
I looked in the Printer Properties on my PC and under the color management tab it has set to Automatic (I hope this is what you asked for)
The Printer is an Epson stylus PHOTO RX560
My Operating system is Windows XP, Media Centre Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2.
Hope this helps.

Print Problem: inconsistent density between sizes and Lightroom/Photoshop

In the past I printed using only Photoshop. I recently made a batch of prints from Lightroom, using the same paper, printer profile, rendering intent, and noticed that the output does not match the output from Photoshop. The Lightroom prints have noticeably more density. I then noticed that large Lightroom prints, for example 16 x 24, have noticeably more density than smaller size Lightroom 6 inch x 9 inch prints. I find no difference in print density when printing from Photoshop regardless of the print size. I can not determine why I am experiencing these variations in print output.
All prints are made using an Epson 7900 on Museo Portfolio Rag, same ICC profiles, same exact setup in the Epson printer driver (off no color adjustment), PS: PS manage color and same icc profile specified in both Lightroom and Photoshop. The computer is a Windows 7 machine.
Has any one else experienced these problems? My first thought is that this is some sort of bug in Lightroom's color management. But if that was true, then it seems like a lot of people would be having this problem. I have been using a color managed workflow for a number of years and have gotten very satisfactory results. My prints are a close match to the soft proof in Photoshop. Since printing from Lightroom the prints do not match prints made from Photoshop, plus the prints made by Lightroom vary in density depending on the size. Bizarre.
Please help

Solved. Somehow the custom media setting for the Museo Portfolio Rag paper was lost when I set up the LR template. The custom media setting reduced the color density by -20 in the Epson Printer driver. With out this setting the color density was at the default zero and the density was greater.
This brings up another question that I will have to explore. I arrived at the -20 color density setting when testing various Epson Driver media settings for the 7900 prior to profiling this paper after Epson replaced the nozzle heads on my 7900 printer. I found at the default zero color density I encountered banding. Prior to the replacement of the nozzle heads the default zero color density worked fine and there was no banding. Interestingly, on the 16 x 32 print that mistakenly used the zero color density setting there was no banding. Now I want to go back and redo my media tests. Is it possible that the new print heads needed a breaking in period and that is why I encountered banding on both the Museo Portfolio Rag and the Epson mat paper?

Epson Leopard Lightroom 1.3 - UK Europe Drives Print Problems

From reading these forums the print problems (poor color when using profiles) that everyone is having with Leopard, Epson Printers and Lightroom 1.3 is related to print driver issues. While there have been no updates on the Epson US site there have been driver updates on the UK/Europe Epson site.
Has anyone tested these updated drives referenced as version 6.12 and do they resolve the issues. In particular I am interested in the R1800 drivers.

Ivan J:
I downloaded the 6.12 driver for the Epson R1800 from the Epson UK site. From my testing so far, I see essentially the same color prints from the driver itself or from using the Epson-supplied icc profile. All with Intel Mac on OS 10.5.1 and LR 1.3.1. So far so good. Still no sign of the new driver on Epson America. Hope this helps.

Lightroom 2.1 upgrade printing problem

I was getting great printing with LR 1 and my Epson R200 printer on Windows XP. My computer died and the new one is on Vista. I upgraded to LR 2.1 while I was at it. now my prints are way off color. I love the new color management features of LR, but there doesn't appear to be a Vista profile for the R200. I tried the one for the R300 and the prints have a decidedly yellow cast, which I can't seem to remove in LR. With the printer managing the color, the prints come out way too dark and weird colored. I need to finish some print orders, any ideas?
Thanks,
Dave

LR 2.1 Final still has the problem of 'sunburned faces' and other somewhat less noticable color shifts on my system.
Win Vista Ultimate x64
Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 8GB RAM
B9180 Printer
Advanced Photo Glossy profile
Application manages color
The same images using the same printer settings on the same system print just fine using Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS4 so the problem is definitely in something specific to LR.
And I have reported this to Adobe via http://www.adobe.com/go/wish and I suggest that anyone having printing problems with LR2.1 file a bug report.

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

Lightroom 3 printer problem

When I print from Lightroom 3, it does not return my printer to it's default setting of 8 1/2 x 11 and duplex mode. It leaves it set for the last used Lightroom print setting I used instead. Bummer! So, if I forget to reset the printer and my wife (not knowing better) does a printout, it comes out photo sized (often 4x6 which I use a lot). Anyone else noticed this? Have a solution?

Do what I did....get a printer for your wife and one for prints.
It is not a function of LR to reset your printer.
Rich

My "fix" to print problems in LR (using MS XP)

Having had the same problems printing from LR as many others are complaining about, I thought that I might give my 2 cents to what I did to solve (?) the problem. I have to run with current setting in a while to be convinced that it is not just an intermittent fix though ;-)
My problem when printing from LR was that the print came out much too Cyan-Green and somewhat dark when color management where handled by LR. When the same photo was exported to PS Elements (PSE) in Tiff with the Pro-photo color profile embedded, adjustments from LR, and printed using the same driver setting and color management, the print came out fine.
I must mention that I have had fine printout in previous LR versions but I'm not sure when the problem started. But at least from LR version 1.3, 1.3.1 I have had problems printing a proper print.
As I'm not 100% sure what caused the fix, I don't want to leave much info un-documented, so I start by describing my system etc.:
- Athlon 64 3500+ with 2 GB RAM
- Lacie 119 LCD monitor (calibrated with a ColorVision Spyder 2)
- Epson Stylus Photo 890 printer; an old (6-7 years) 6 color dye-sub printer, but it can still produce very good prints. (It is BTW, the A4 printer version of Epson 1290).
- Microsoft XP service pack 2
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.3.1.
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 5
- Latest Epson 890 printer drivers ver. 5.21/P (from 2004)
- ICC profiles for various Epson printer paper
- Paper used: Ilford Printasia Photo Glossy Paper (but I have tried Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper as well with same results)
I used following setting:
- In printer driver: "No color management" was selected
- LR and PSE color management; printer profile: Epson Stylus Photo 890 Premium Glossy Photo Paper, Rendering Intent: Perceptual
. LR Print sharpening: High
- LR Print resolution: 360ppi
When the photo was opened in PSE and I had printed a small print with above mentioned printer driver/color management settings. The print looked good, but with a little magenta color cast, so I thought that if I used a different printer profile this might help (I have no ICC profile for the Ilford paper). So I chose the "Epson Stylus Photo 890 Photo Paper" instead and printed again, and this time the photo looked as it did on my calibrated monitor. I have to admit I was a bit delighted even though it was from printed from PSE and not from LR, but seeing that color management worked in other applications was a relief.
In PSE, I also I tried changing to a different Rendering Intent before changing printer profile, but with no success.
Another thing that helped further was to change Media Type in printer driver from "Premium Glossy Photo Paper" to "Photo Paper".
After the print success in PSE I went back to LR and changed the Printer Profile to "Epson Stylus Photo 890 Photo Paper" (still with "No color management" and "Photo Paper" selected in printer driver) and printed the photo again. Now the photo looked as good as it did in PSE (!!!???).
Now I have made a few printer preset in LR for various print sizes, and the prints look fantastic. Every time! Do I have to mention that I am a happy guy ? :-)
BTW, remember that a printer preset also saves the printer driver settings. Forgetting this can easily cause some unexpected results.
The only thing is that, I still do not know what fixed the problem, and I am a bit worried that the problem might come back again. Maybe the print related changes made in PSE and the following selection of the same settings in LR did - somehow - "synchronize" LR to a proper color management. Sounds weird, but if it works...
I hope this long explanation was useful to - at least - some of you, who experience printer problems in LR. LR is a fantastic application, and I enjoy using it, but the printer problems has really been frustrating.
Good luck!
/Per

Little unclear about the border thing- you say it prints with a too wide border, but also say:
When I print the image with this set up, it still is printed without a border.
It's a factor of your printer, though; some can never print without a margin around all sides; this can be a border, or cut off. Good news, though; you can have a 5 x 7 borderless, or with any size border you wish if you print on larger paper, and trim to taste.

Printing from Lightroom (2.5 - 3) into Adobe Acrobat 9

I just wanted to post that I have been searching for an answer about errors when printing from Lightroom to Acrobat. When I went to Win7 64 bit Professional and CS5 Design Premium two weks ago - all the problems started.
Looking at the forums - I found several others with similar problems in a 64 bit environment. I tried their suggestions and none helped. I called Adobe this past week and spent 3 hrs on the phone to be told they didn't have a solution but would get back with me (one can only hope). I upgraded to Lightroom 3 hoping that would solve it and it has not.
When collecting images and going to Print, then printing into Acrobat as a 2/2 cell contact sheet, no images are embedded. In Lightroom 3, a clean sheet appears. Has anyone else experienced this? Even when using a new tiny catalog, the same result occurs.
I am running a PC with quad processor, 4 Gigs of RAM, NVidia graphics card that is two years old - all newest drivers for 64 bit. SATA drives, dedicated scratch disk... etc.
The catalog is new and tiny.
The images are small for testing purposes (only about 6 at 300 dpi).
Luckily, I can do a work-around using Bridge but I use Lightroom for processisng photos and sending contact sheets to clients and need this function. Any help would be much appreciated. If you are having the same problem, please call Adobe and report it.

Ok, I've run some tests: files with full native Canon 30D images (RAW) that had been edited in LR 3 and followed the set up given by Adobe. It failed. Some of the pics came in and retained their file names and some showed just file names and blanks for the pic space. Ok, I'll run more tests and come back to this.
I tend to edit, make JPGs (6 x 4 at 300dpi) and then import those and set up the contact sheet. Running full bore - as explained above, it doesn't work.I'll try multiple JPGs to see if that works.
I'll go back into discussions with Adobe. Their support page is convoluted and expensive. I began under the upgrade of CS5 and Lightroom 3. I'll try again.
I do recommend, if possible, that you edit/resize and control your resolution (I set up the printer box in LR for 200 dpi) and then make your contact sheets as per their instructions. You also might try limiting how many sheets your make to see how that works. Create one sheet, then two, etc. so you can see where the cutoff is for your system. I'm afraid some of this may be hardware and how much info you are asking to be transferred from LR to the PDF.
It is very odd that some are coming in and some are not. There is definitely something flaky in Lightroom to Acrobat. I suspect the coding may not be set up to handle 64 bit and that's why it's failing. As far as I know, the only software that is full 64 bit, at present, if Photoshop. The others are running under the 32 bit environment within a 64 bit OS of Win7.
Is this not true?

Color shift printing from Lightroom 1.3

Windows Vista, HP officejet Pro L7580 printer, Lightroom 1.3, Photoshop CS3. All that being said and having used Photoshop since ver 5 with a variety of printers I find myself stumped with my latest soup of hardware and software. Screen colors do not print out anywhere close on paper when I try to print from Lightroom. Move the file over via "edit in Photoshop" and print from there and everything is fine. In Photoshop, whether Photoshop or the printer controls the color there is no problem. In Lightroom, however I have no control that I can find. I have no additional profiles so the printer controls the color. Photoshop and the printer are both set to AdobeRGB1998.icc. Other then just printing from Photoshop what am I missing in Lightroom?
By the way Adobe, in the future think about either Lightroom or Bridge but not both.

Hi,
Just a reminder for those who missed that thread (I guess this fix also
applies to LR 1 although I didn't check):
[FIX] Darker prints and color shifts when printing from Lightroom 2
(this is for Windows - Mac users please look here for a similar fix:
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr_13_print/lightroom_print.htm )
The problem :
When printing RAW or TIFF files from LR2, you get a printer output that
is much darker than it should be and that presents various color shifts.
I'm using an Epson Stylus Pro 3800 with the latest Windows driver
(6.50 - which is rather old by the way). The workaround described below
works for me under Windows XP SP3. It should also probably work with
other systems/printers/drivers. Use at your own (minor) risk.
The "official" procedure for printing from LR is as follows:
1. Do not let the printer manage colors and select "Other..." from the
profile dropdown list and select the ICC/ICM paper/printer profile that
you want to use.
2. Click on Print... in LR which opens the Print Settings dialog.
3. Select the options you need and the paper you're using.
4. *Disable the color management from the driver's side* (in Epson's
drivers, "Mode | Custom | No Color Adjustments").
5. Print
Unfortunately, *this doesn't work* for many of us and this produces a
print that is dark and has color shifts as mentioned above. Note that
the same image prints correctly from QImage or Photoshop CS3 (that is,
the printer output corresponds to what you see on your calibrated
display).
Apparently, although color management has been (allegedly) disabled in
the driver, there's something wrong between LR and the driver which
makes that both LR and the driver are still trying to manage colors. In
other words, the "No Color Adjustements" option of the driver doesn't
seem to work with LR.
The workaround (found after hours of hair pulling and paper and
expensive ink wasting):
In step #4,
1. Instead of selecting "No Color Adjustments", set Mode to "Custom |
ICM
2. Click Advanced...
3. Check "Show all profiles".
4. Select Driver ICM (Advanced)"
5. Set *both* the "Input profile" and the "Printer profile" fields to
the very same profile that you specified in LR.
That is, if you specified Pro38 PGPP (Premium Glossy Photo Paper) in LR,
then also select Pro38 PGPP in both "Input Profile" and "Printer
Profile". This has actually the same effect has disabling color
management in the driver (what "No Color Adjustements" should normally
take care of).
That's it. When printing, you'll get exactly the same color results as
when printing from QImage or Photoshop. No more dark prints. No more
color shifts.
One might think that the bug is in the Epson driver but in that case,
QImage would have the very same problem. So I tend to think that the bug
is on the Lightroom side.
Hope this helps.
Patrick

[FIX] Darker prints and color shifts when printing from Lightroom 2

Hi,
The problem :
When printing RAW or TIFF files from LR2, you get a printer output that
is much darker than it should be and that presents various color shifts.
I'm using an Epson Stylus Pro 3800 with the latest Windows driver
(6.50 - which is rather old by the way). The workaround described below
works for me under Windows XP SP3. It should also probably work with
other systems/printers/drivers. Use at your own (minor) risk.
The "official" procedure for printing from LR is as follows:
1. Do not let the printer manage colors and select "Other..." from the
profile dropdown list and select the ICC/ICM paper/printer profile that
you want to use.
2. Click on Print... in LR which opens the Print Settings dialog.
3. Select the options you need and the paper you're using.
4. **Disable the color management from the driver's side** (in Epson's
drivers, "Mode | Custom | No Color Adjustments").
5. Print
Unfortunately, **this doesn't work** for many of us and this produces a
print that is dark and has color shifts as mentioned above. Note that
the same image prints correctly from QImage or Photoshop CS3 (that is,
the printer output corresponds to what you see on your calibrated
display).
Apparently, although color management has been (allegedly) disabled in
the driver, there's something wrong between LR and the driver which
makes that *both* LR and the driver are still trying to manage colors.
In other words, the "No Color Adjustements" option of the driver doesn't
seem to work with LR.
The workaround (found after hours of hair pulling and paper and
expensive ink wasting):
In step #4,
1. Instead of selecting "No Color Adjustments", set Mode to "Custom |
ICM
2. Click Advanced...
3. Check "Show all profiles".
4. Select Driver ICM (Advanced)"
5. Set **both** the "Input profile" and the "Printer profile" fields to
the very same profile that you specified in LR.
That is, if you specified Pro38 PGPP (Premium Glossy Photo Paper) in LR,
then also select Pro38 PGPP in both "Input Profile" and "Printer
Profile". This has actually the same effect has disabling color
management in the driver (what "No Color Adjustements" should normally
take care of).
That's it. When printing, you'll get exactly the same color results as
when printing from QImage or Photoshop. No more dark prints. No more
color shifts.
One might think that the bug is in the Epson driver but in that case,
QImage would have the very same problem. So I tend to think that the bug
is on the Lightroom side.
Note: Although Photoshop CS3 produces a correct printer output, it
demonstrates the same problem as LR when using the "Match Print Color"
option for soft proofing. But in that case, only the preview colors are
wrong. The printer output is ok. Which also tends to demonstrate that
Adobe has the problem, not Epson. Or maybe both... :-) .
Don't ask me why some users have the problem and other don't.
Hope this helps.
Patrick Philippot
MainSoft Consulting Services
www.mainsoft.fr

A sincere thank you for your reply, Michael. Sorry about the "it just doesn't make sense" shortcut. I have been trying to solve this issue since LR 1.1, spending dozens of hours on different trials and digesting everything written on this forum and the B9180 forum about color management and double profiling. My shortcut was a summation of my experience (and my frustration) but doesn't really advance the conversation. Here are some data that should be more useful in diagnosing the problem.
I am running Windows XP SP2. I calibrate my monitor monthly with the Spyder. The reason I suspect this may be an issue of double profiling is because the results (moderately strong magenta overlay plus an increase in contrast) match what more knowledgeable people than I on this forum describe when double profiling occurs. Perhaps I shouldn't presume it is double profiling, and follow Patrick Philippot's lead in naming the problem "color shifts." Patrick does refer in post #2 of this thread, however, to obvious double profiling.
I certainly do have a successful and consistent print method. With PS CS3, and either my Epson 1280 or my HP B9180, the output is almost always dead on. Here is how I do it. In PS from the print dialog box, under color handling I always choose "Photoshop manages colors." Then under printer profile I select the profile designated by the manufacturer for a particular paper/printer combination. Then in the printer driver I disable printer control of color. With the Epson I check the box "Off (No Color Adjustment)." With the B9180 I choose the option "Application Managed Colors." While I sometimes may tweak the final output, these procedures have served me well with PS for several years.
Contrasted with my positive PS experience, my experience with LR printing has been inconsistent. I regret having to be so imprecise but truly sometimes LR produces accurate results that match the calibrated monitor, but most of the time it does not. I use standard procedures with LR that parallel the PS ones described above. In LR's printing panel, under color management, I specify the correct profile, just as I did for PS. Then in the printer driver I use the same procedures I use with PS. Most of the time the prints have the magenta overlay and too much contrast.
BTW, the inconsistent LR printing only takes place with my HP B9180. I have never had any problem with off-color LR prints with my Epson 1280. Again, I emphasize that I have standard procedures that always work with PS (no matter which printer) and LR (but only with the Epson).
Unfortunately the LR printing problems are intermittent. Some of the time (perhaps 20%) LR produces fine prints in the B9180, indistinguishable from PS prints. When LR is printing well, it will continue to print fine until "something happens" and the output shows the color shift. This means I do not get a random sequence of good-bad-good-bad prints, but rather good-good-x factor-bad-bad-bad. Ths problem is that I do not know what this "x factor" is. Once, when LR was giving me accurate output, I simply changed the default printer (Control Panel-Printers and Faxes) from the B9180 to my Samsung 1430 laser; immediately afterwards the LR output colors shifted. Did LR react to this change in default printers? Another time I had good LR printing success with version 1.2 but ran into the problems described above when I upgraded to version 1.3.
Sorry for the long post. I am hoping that someone will see something that I am missing and provide a hint. I think, though, that Patrick is correct when he states, "I tend to think that the problem is with LR. After all, similar issues (obvious double profiling) are observed only in LR but with various printers."

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