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Epson SP-790 and Mac OS X
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Epson SP-790 and Mac OS X


  • Subject: Epson SP-790 and Mac OS X
  • From: Peter Gaunt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 03:17:52 +0000

I've been lurking on this list for a couple of months in the hope of seeing and answer to my problem but to no avail.

I print photos on my Epson SP-790. Most of the photos originate on a different machine (Acorn Risc OS) which takes input from my Nikon Coolscan 3 scanner. The Acorn has no colorsync type capabilities. I do most of my processing on the Acorn (can't afford Photoshop!), convert everything to PDFs and then print from my iBook. This worked fine and produced excellent results under Mac OS 9.1. I use Epson Premium Photo Glossy paper.

Under Mac OS X (various versions, currently 10.1.3) the results are dire. Absolutely dire. Colours are washed out and with a pronounced colour cast (cyan more or less I think). Nothing I do with ColorSync profiles makes any difference at all. The results always look exactly the same regardless of which profiles I set up and from whichever application I print.

If I use the ColorSync utility there is no printer device registered. Should there be? There are no Epson profiles listed under System preferences either unless I copy those from OS 9.1. Even when I do this the results don't change one jot.

I can get /reasonable/ results under OS X using the printer driver's own colour controls (with a bit of fiddling) but they're still not as good as I used to get under OS 9.1 with ColorSync.

I'm fed up with running Classic every time I want to print a photo. Does anyone know just how /do/ I get good results from the printer under OS X? It's driving me crazy apart from anything else!

Help!

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