Re: Epson and Leopard
Re: Epson and Leopard
- Subject: Re: Epson and Leopard
- From: Tom Attix <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:28:49 -0800
Epson US has only started posting drivers for Leopard in the past few
months. Previous to that they we're indicating that the drivers were
Leopard compatible, but they weren't. When you got to the OS print
window there were no driver options (like paper type and color
management prefs). My rule of thumb is that if the driver wasn't
posted after 10/2007 it's not leopard compatible, regardless of what
driver description says (this is for the Epson US website).
The new, actual, Leopard drivers work correctly in my testing of the
3800 and the 2400. I haven't looked at the 1800 or 800 yet.
-Tom Attix
On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Gene Norris wrote:
Mike Adams' post yesterday caught my eye. He says --
"I spoke to a photographer today who gave me an earful about her
brand new Epson R800 not being able to print application color-
managed from Leopard. Specifically not being able to turn off color
management in the print driver.
"I remember an involved discussion not long ago about a similar
issue, but I wasn't paying close attention and of course I've now
deleted the relevant posts.
"Anyone care to shed some light? Is this as common an issue as she
says? If so, is there a fix or a work-around available?"
The gurus at adobe forums-->macintosh photoshop, and others, have
been saying for some months that Leopard is broken as far as
printing from Photoshop to Epson printers is concerned and
they recommend printing from a Tiger (Max OS 10.4) system. I don't
recall any mention of paper types they use, , etc there. So I've
done some experiments.
I rebuilt a Mac OS 10.4.11 system on an external drive, downloaded a
fresh Tiger-compatible Epson R1800 driver (v. 3.0 aAs) and fresh
profiles for glossy and matte papers, and reset the printing system
and rebooting before installing all the new stuff. To summarize, I'm
running OS 10.4.11 on an intel macbook pro with a 2.4 GHz core duo
chip, Photoshop CS 3 v.10.0.1 and printing to an Epson R1800. The
LCD screen is decently calibrated.
Printing with photoshop managing colors and printer controls off,
the colors are, well, OK, I guess. BUT-- changing ONLY the printer
profile from SPR1800 prmgglossy.icc to SPR 1800 EnMte BstPhoto.icc
results in horribly discolored prints, with dark areas flooded with
blue and cyan ink. The results are just as bad with Tiger as with
Leopard. Finally, selecting
ColorSync in the Print-->Color Management menu along with Photoshop
Manages Color in the photoshop print window produces similarly
discolored prints.
All the other settings -- rendering intent, black point
compensation, match print colors, etc doesn't really make much of a
difference. The bottom line, for me, is that I can manage to print
on glossy paper with better results from Tiger than Leopard, but I
can't use any other kind of paper-- emhanced matterm double-sided
matte, watercolor, etc from either Leopard or Tiger.
A pointer back to earlier discussions would be appreciated.
Eugene Norris 727 865 8518
876 Ponce de Leon Drive
Tierra Verde, FL 33715-2026
http://mysite.verizon.net/e_norris/index.htm
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