RE: Problems with Dark Prints
RE: Problems with Dark Prints
- Subject: RE: Problems with Dark Prints
- From: "Willard, Chris (Tacoma, WA)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:19:02 -0700
- Thread-topic: Problems with Dark Prints
Most of the posts regarging dark printing have referred to either
Leopard or Snow Leopard upgrades. I can attest to having the same
problem suddenly crop up with Tiger as well. I run a Power PC G-5 with
Photoshop CS4 and was having no problems with my Epson SP 2200 also
utilizing profiles created by Monaco EZColor 2.6 until a recent Apple
software update "upgraded" me to 10.4.11 and I began having the same
dark printing difficulties. I used the colorsync solution posted 10-12
resetting the output profiles for the printer in the color sync
application and the dark printing problems went away.
Following advice here and elsewhere, prints from my Epson 7600 are now
the same as they were before Snow Leopard. But on first upgrading from
10.5.8 to 10.6.1 they were darker. I hope my solution may help others.
In both cases (10.5, 10.6) I printed with the same profile that I had
made in Monaco EZColor 2.6 in June 2009. As far as I could tell, the
print settings were the same in 10.6 as I had used in 10.5 (Photoshop
manages colors, no color adjustment in printer dialog, paper set to
'Watercolor Paper Radiant White', etc etc).
My upgrade to 10.6.1: I deleted the printer from 'Print&Fax' system
prefs, reinstalled the Leopard 10.5 driver from the Epson site
(epson12467.dmg) and then added the printer. But prints, apparently with
the same settings and profile as in Leopard, came out darker.
First I tried deleting /Library/Printers/ then reinstalling and re-
adding the printer; that did not help.
Eventually I discovered this note about 'default profiles' and the need
to re-set those when printing targets:
http://www.cwaynefox.com/Printing/Entries/2009/4/7_Changing_the_Printers
_Default_ColorSync_profile.html
I read there with some surprise that default-profile setting was an
issue in Leopard, as well as Snow Leopard, but I had not known about it,
or implemented it, when I printed the targets for my June 2009 profile.
Before I made a new profile in Snow Leopard, I went into ColorSync
Utility and changed the profile 'Pro7600 Standard_PK' to point to
'Pro7600 Watercolor-RW_MK'. [I am printing on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag, and
I use 'Watercolor Paper Radiant White' in the printer settings, so I
guessed this was the correct profile to set as default].
Prints with the new profile in Snow Leopard look like the old profile
prints in Leopard. From my user point of view, the only difference was
changing the default profile setting before I printed the target.
I don't have the patience to go back into Leopard and try to make a
profile there with the default profile reset, but I'm offering this
experience in case anyone more expert than me can get an insight to what
I, and possibly others, were doing wrong.
I'm wondering if some users are working with profiles, their own or
third party, made like my June 2009 profile, without regard to default
profile setting, and only in Snow Leopard are they seeing a problem.
Thanks to those who posted information that helped me.
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