Re: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 140
Re: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 140
- Subject: Re: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 140
- From: Jeffrey Stevensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:46:23 -0400
I am not aware of any way to select rendering intent within the Epson drivers in Mac OSX (or system 9), and I prefer the Adobe Color Engine to Colorsync (and certainly to the Epson drivers). If you wish to use Photoshop to do your color management in printing, you must have a copy of the profiles in your Colorsync–Profiles folder in the main system Library under Mac OSX. Custom profiles should live there.
The problem with the Epson install utility that I have used (R2400) under OSX is that the profiles from Epson are not put there; they are hidden in the driver. They may be similarly hidden in Windows (I don't know. Anyone care to chime in?). Under System 9 they were put into the right place, the Colorsync–Profiles folder.
Go to Library–Printers–Epson–control click on the SPR2400.plugin (or other Epson printer plugin). Select Show Package Contents–Contents–Resources–ICCProfiles. Select all and drag to Library–Colorsync–Profiles. Or duplicate them, drag over the duplicates, take "copy" off the name. Restart Photoshop. Now you can choose the Epson ICC Profiles in the Print With Preview dialog box and choose your rendering intent (which may make no difference if that intent is not supported in the profile tables). On the R2400, the glossy and semi-glossy profiles are very good; I almost always use Relative Colorimetric.
I recommend Off (No Color Adjustment) in Color Management in the Epson driver, but select your paper and resolution settings to match your profile. These are ink limiter settings.
-Jeff Stevensen
On Apr 19, 2006, at 3:03 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Taking as an example what happens with the printer driver for my Epson 2200,
I do not see any place in that dialog box to select any of the "color
management settings" that are hinted at in the Help file.
I would think that the first couple of dialogs are Operating System
dialogs, customized by PhotoShop. The latter dialogs are written
by the printer vendor, hence the vagueness in the PhotoShop documentation.
So it sounds like your Epson 2200 drivers simply don't have the flexibility
of some of the later Epson drivers. Have you tried looking for any
updates from Epson ?
It seems to me that this "Printer Color Management" option offers no true
color management choices, but just a way to use the driver the same way one
would do without having access to the Print With Preview dialog box in
Photoshop.
It seems that (at least under MSWindows), there is more scope for the
printer vendor drivers to make "smart" profile choices, that is, automatically
matching the printer configuration settings to the appropriate profile,
while this isn't so easy/possible from the application side.
Jeffrey Stevensen Photography
82 Gilman Street
Portland, ME 04102
207-773-5175
www.jsphotographs.com
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