Epson Drivers & OSX 10.1.4
Epson Drivers & OSX 10.1.4
- Subject: Epson Drivers & OSX 10.1.4
- From: email@hidden (Anthony Sanna)
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:05:20 -0500
Is anyone having trouble with the Epson Print Dialogs when printing from
Photoshop 7 in OSX? I'm in the middle of setting up a new iMac and Epson
820 for a friend who has never touched a computer before. I've just
finished all the OSX, user, and application settings, and I must say that
this machine is really cherry. But my final task has been to create a
few fool-proof printing presets for three different types of paper, and
here's where I've hit a snag.
If I printed from Photoshop 6 in OS9 this would be a typical Epson
print-flow: I might, let's say, set the "Media Type" to Matte paper -
Heavyweight, set the "Mode" to "Advanced" and choose "No Color
Adjustments" and the print resolution options from the next screen, click
OK and taking me back to the original print dialog where the "Source
Space" would be the image's "Adobe RGB (1998)", and I would set the
"Print Space" to the appropriate profile for the Matte paper and choose
my rendering intent.
I could then SAVE these settings as a custom setting that I could choose
from a drop down menu. I might have several for different papers and
resolutions that I could conveniently select from the custom menu. This
is what I want to do on the iMac.
But the OSX (10.1.4) print dialog is a real mess. Actually, I should say
print dialogs. Command-P no longer brings up the "Print" window (that is
now Command-Option-P), but brings up "Print Preview".
"Print Preview" gives you just that, and if you click the "Show More
Options" checkbox, you'll see a lot of Adobe-style options for screens,
bleeds, calibration bars, etc. However, if you change the drop-down menu
from "Output" to "Color Management", then you'll see the choices for
Source and Print space.
From there you click "Print", which takes you to the "Print" dialog (that
you could have gotten by Command-Option-P), where there is drop-down menu
that selects five further option screens, a summary screen, and a "Save
Custom Settings" selection. Only two of the drop-down menu choices
affect color, "Print Settings" & "Color Management".
Now, depending on how the windows come up, you've had to chose as many as
six different settings-windows before the final Print command. This all
wouldn't be so bad *IF* you could save custom settings for different
papers and resolutions like you could in OS9, and like the "Save Custom
Settings" in the new Print window promises to do.
However, all you can do is save what you have as "Custom". That's it!
Just one group of settings called "Custom", and who would trust printing
from this without first going through all the windows again to check out
what "Custom" means - plain paper/auto/360dpi or PGPP/No Color
Adj/1440dpi. Who could tell?
And even if this "Save Custom Settings" feature worked as it should,
it's still a lousy setup since it's disconnected from the initial "Print
Preview" window where you selected profiles and rendering intents.
...that is IF you clicked the right checkbox and menu, AND EVEN THEN the
selection of the printing paper's profile is in a completely separate
dialog and several additional steps away from the point where you select
the PAPER.
THIS IS REALLY DUMB! ...or I am really dumb if I've missed something
obvious here. But if not, who put this Rube Goldberg together?
Tony
Anthony R. Sanna
Vice-President
SACO Foods, Inc.
6120 University Avenue
Middleton, Wisconsin 53562 USA
email@hidden
www.sacofoods.com
1-800-373-7226
(608) 238-9101
(608) 238-8149 - fax
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