Totally stuck with Mac & Epson Printer

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Hi Guys
My first post and it's going to be a bit long winded so please bear with me.
My wife and I run a photographic studio in Hertfordshire and we recently bought our first mac (Mac Pro and 23" Hd Screen) after years of PC use. We have been trying for a number of months to bring our printing in house as the nature of our work requires 100% confidentiality.
We had bought an Epson R2400 and after a little messing around with screen settings and using a spyder pro to calibrate we were getting fantastic results. However this was on a PC and it struggled to run Photoshop CS3, Lightroom and a few other bits so we decided to invest in the Mac.
Anyway on to the problems (please be patient I'm a recent convert!) - I installed the printer using the drivers from Epson (6.12) and in profiler it is showing as using
Epson Stylus Photo R2400 - Gutenprint v5.1.3
From then on I'm totally stuck, I'm getting all sorts of weird prints, some really dark, some really yellow, here's what I am doing:
From photoshop selecting
(color settings are set to the default of North America General Purpose 2 and the doc is sRgb)
file/print
Photoshop manages color
relative colormetric
Profile is sRGB (No Epson profiles are available in the drop down)
Then choosing print
From the print screen I select printer features and set the following
Color Model: RGB Color
Color Precision: Normal
Media Type: Premium Glossy Photo Paper
Print Quality: Best
Resolution: 1440 * 1440 (I did leave it on auto but that seemed to just print in draft!)
Output order: reverse
all other settings are left as default
What am I missing, or more likely doing completely wrong? On the PC I just chose printer manages color, color to ICM with the epson profile, selected my paper type and getting excellent prints every time.
A little further information if it is of any use, I calibrated my cinema display with a spyder 3 pro and set the target to Gamma 1.8 and white point to native
Any help, advice or links to tutorials/resources would be greatly appreciated
Many thanks
Ossie

Answer 1

Hi
I had the same issue. The first thing you need to do is remove the Gutenprint driver and install the new Epson Leopard driver from the epson website.
As to the best colour mgt and print settings (re photoshop CS3 )if you search the boards here you will find several discussions on the topic and sugested settings.
I eventually got mine to work ok.
Hope that helps , good luck.
Tony C