RE: Printing to Epson R1900 stylus fromCS3

Seems simple- cannot figure out how to turn off color management in printer dialogue box so PS manages colors. Drop down menus are not what is shown in manual?! New printer, installed software and ICC profiles for photo papers. Am not getting good prints - any ideas?

There are different drivers for Leopard vs Tiger. The latest for Leopard can be found at:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/SupportLeopard.jsp
and choosing the 1900 model. It seems to work pretty well, and from Aperture, at least, has an option to turn off Color Management.
Ernie

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Posted problem awhile back. PDF would not print to my Epson R1900. Downloaded umpteen different drivers. I am on a G5 Intel Dual Core running OS 10.5.6 or 10.5.7 since yesterday. Adobe very little help, Epson likewise, although I talked to an Epson Tech for about 45 minutes one day.
Decided I had to fix this myself. When in the Print window Click on "Advanced", check mark "Print as Image". This enables printing the PDF.
Adobe has a note about this on their website now.

Thank you!!!
I recently noticed that when using the Gutenberg drivers on my Epson Stylus Photo 380, it was shrinking the pages slightly.
So I decided to update the Epson drivers, and use them instead.
After updating, I could no longer print over my network. It was making my crazy. I tried everything that I could think of.
I saw your post & tried it. Perfect, worked like a charm!
And such a simple solution.
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Dark Prints from Epson R1900 w/ Colormunki

I use the Epson R1900 and Colormunki and still get dark prints. Here is my setup.
GEForce 8600 GT video card
Sceptre DCLCD20 monitor
Epson Stylus R1900 printer
In the calibration process, I have to turn my monitor Brightness control all the way to 0 to get to come close to what Colormunki wants.
I have to turn off the Enbale DDC Calibration function in the preferences or Colormunki sets my monitor so dark, I can barely see it.
I've tried printing in both Lightroom 2.4 and PS CS4 using the Colormunki generated profile and both prints come out dark - the same but dark
In LR, my color management settings are Profile: Epson ... (my profile) and Rendering intent: perceptual.
In PS CS4, my Color Handling settings are Photoshop Manages Color; Printer Prilfe is my colormunki generated profile, Rendering intent is perceptual.
Both print previews look fine.
Both prints come out dark
Any suggestions would be appreciated?

I don't use a Colormunki..but what you say here
kentmcpherson wrote:
In the calibration process, I have to turn my monitor Brightness control all the way to 0 to get to come close to what Colormunki wants.
I have to turn off the Enbale DDC Calibration function in the preferences or Colormunki sets my monitor so dark, I can barely see it.
sounds very strange. Usually when profiling a monitor and setting the luminance value (which is either called the brightness or backlight) control, you start from the brightest point the monitor will go to and then the device measures this and sets a recommended luminance value measured in cm2 (that is candles to the square meter) and you reset your monitor brightness until it matches the required value. Are you reading the instructions carefully as what you say here just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Setting the monitor to 0 (o what?) and saying the calibration device sets your monitor brightness (this will be done on the monitor controls not by a calibration device)
If you are also using the colomunki to make printer profiles I have heard of several serious problems with the device regarding this. I understand it makes icc v4 profiles and your printer drivers may use icc v 2...this will cause difficulties. You will usually be better using the canned profiles supplied by any paper manufacturer than attempting to make your own profiles with these cheaper end of the market devices in my experience.

Illustrator CS2 Printing Help - Epson R1900

Hi there,
I've been printing to my Epson R1900 with no problems from Illustrator CS2 from my Macbook for a year without a problem. I got a new Macbook, only slightly newer than the last, reinstalled Illustrator, and now my print quality is in the gutter. I've tried to adjust the print settings, which I never had to do before, and it's still very poor. What I am printing are just graphics I've drawn on-screen. No images. In the Output section of Print Presets, I can't adjust anything except Right Reading or Left Reading. Can anyone help? I don't know what changed. All of the printer drivers are the same and are installed. The strokes of lines look pixelated, as does the text. I know I could do "Create Outlines" to sharpen it, but I never had to do that before, and I want to be able to edit the text later.
Hopefully someone can help.
Thank you for your time.
Keli

You upgraded your OS as well and that is what has changed you will not be able to print from the epson R1900 with smooth curved lines or smooth paths.
Simply not possible in the newer OS above 10.5.
This is what you must do, Print from Acrobat or if you wish rasterize the art and print that.
Or save it a psd rasterized and print that from Photoshop.
Or purchase a RIP software.

Printing with epson r1900 and cc photoshop

I have just purchased a new windows 8 computer and have cc photoshop installed. when trying to print with my epson r1900, the only print options available are landscape or portrait and paper size letter or a4. has anyone else had this problem and if so, how did you solve it.

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Printer ICM Epson Photo Stylus 2200

New computer with Window 8 64 bit. Installed Epson Stylus Photo 2200 printer. Download windows 8 driver update epson15163.exe with stylus driver v5.93. After setting Photoshop manages color for printing, subsequently in advanced tab, highlighting ICM causes error message:" Printer driver host for application has stopped working." Any resolution available? Can only print image by allowing printer to manage color.

I think I found a work around. I am also having this problem. I went to Control Panel > View Devices and Printers > Select the Epson 2200 Printer Properties *NOT PREFERENCES* (right click will get you a menu to select this) > Advanced > Printing Defaults > click ICM > click No Color Adjustment > select the other details for the print job > click Save Setting > give the setting a name and click save > NOW, go to the print settings from printing out of photoshop and apply the saved setting you just created and it should change to have both "ICM" and "No Color Adjustment" clicked.
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LR2 Printing Blank Pages on Epson R1900

Printing to Epson R1900 and Lightroom spontaneously started sending blank images. Made one print which was fine. When I sent my second print all I got was a 13x19 page with just the gloss optimizer. In the LR2 print preview window the image also shows blank. The image in the main window is fine. Printing is still good out of Photoshop so not the driver (which I subsequently re-installed).
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Hi!
You say you updated all the software in the system.
Does this also mean you updated the security update
after upgrading your OSX version to 10.4.7?
If you updated some things and not others, that could
have effects on your wireless printing. And so could
upgrading the OSX from 10.4.4 to 10.4.7.
There are some newer printer drivers available from
what used to be known as gimp print; some free ones
that are supposed to help some printing issues; but I
do not know if they'd be of any help to your wireless
printing issue as presented here.
Sometimes just doing routine system maintenance
can help the computer access peripherials and the
parts just start working again. Do you use any interface
utility such as OnyX to run system maintenance and
do you occasionally run "repair disk permissions?"
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Epson R1900 dark prints from CS5

I had Photoshop 7.0 on my PC and printed to an Epson Stylus Photo R1900 with great results.
I purchased a MacBook Pro and tried printing some of the same art prints (transferred via hard drive) using Photoshop CS5 and the same Epson R1900 printer. The prints are very dark!! I switched to 'Printer manages color' on the advice of an Epson technician who said PS is managing color based on 4 ink colors. The Epson has eight colors. I have tried multiple settings, I bought a Color Munki and calibrated my monitor. I still can't get the same quality print that I got using my old PC and version 7.0 of Photoshop. Has anyone else solved this problem yet? I have found numerous comments online about the Epson R1900 printing too DARK!

I took my Epson R1900 printer to Washington State University and asked the printer technician to see if he could help.
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Because when you start a new thread someone inevitibly gets on you for not searching for an existing thread.
I have an HP 2509m monitor. There is no luminance setting but according to specs it's 300 nits. Brightness is set to 90. I can't find anywhere that will give me the cd/m2. I really don't think it's the monitor since my Epson R1900 does not have the same issue. I played with the settings some more and it seems color density is the only thing that make a noticable difference. I turned off color controls on the printer and used CS4 for color management. Set the ICM to the right printer and paper. That DID make a difference but not much - still very dark printout. And I'm not talking a little darker than what's on the screen - I'm talking black where it shoud be gray.
Here's the picture I'm having trouble with. This is reduced in quality so I could post it, but you can still see what I'm talking about. Note the building on the very bottom. To the right of that are some hills that are dark green and you can make out some of the detail of a road with parked cars along it. They're dark, but you can make them out. In the printout, pretty much everything except the building is black.
http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy173/pdeys/DSC_0067_comp.jpg
Can you see the green hills on your monitor?
I thought it might be the paper so I tried it with glossy instead of semigloss. Same result.

I keep getting a "waiting for printer to become available when trying to print on my Epson Photo Stylus 2400. It used to work.

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After installing the last software update, my printer (an Epson Stylus Photo R1800) immediately ceased to function. How do I fix this?

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Problem printing in illustrator with my epson r1900

Hi, all. I recently bought an epson r1900. Tried to print out some images and types with my r1900 in either illustrator or photoshop. The images printed allright, but all my types is getting some "pixelated edges" when its not a stright line...the edges are not smooth at all...no matter when the type is 12pt or 72pt... But on the other hand, when i convert the document to a jpeg and print with "Preview" the problem sloved... it does have a solid edges type... why is that?? i did have lots of experence with my pervious epson 1280,2200,and 2400 but i never got this problem before....can you guys help me with it??
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Epson R1900 Color Issues Only Printing From Lightroom

Hi all - my first post here thought I've been reading this forum since I purchased 1.1 a while back. I'm using 1.4.1 with XP Home, service pack 3. I've had very few issues with this release (which is why I haven't jumped to 2.X yet). To date, I've occasionally printed snapshots with an HP 1115, but most printing has been through labs.
I recently purchased an Epson R1900 and I've been unable to get colors to print remotely correct through Lightroom. It looks to me like the color is getting managed twice, regardless of the settings I use. The R1900 driver allows a preview before actually printing, and the colors it shows are always off by a lot, regardless of whether I let Lightroom manage color or the printer.
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I solved my color problem by updating the printer driver to version 6.60. When I discovered that a newer driver was available I had attempted to update it but it would not install correctly. I contacted Epson for help, but only received links to non-relevant information. I eventually determined that using MSCONFIG to keep all nonessential programs from starting would allow the driver to correctly install. Simply shutting down all user launched programs and my virus software was insufficient.
Prints are definitely on the dark side, but I've been able to compensate as Dan has suggested. Otherwise, I am quite pleased with the prints it produces on Epson Premium Glossy, and am looking forward to experimenting with other papers and ICC profiles. Thanks all for your help and suggestions.

RE: Printing to Epson R1900 stylus fromCS3

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