The dreaded Epson/OSX/Snow Leopard Scrum dot issue
The dreaded Epson/OSX/Snow Leopard Scrum dot issue
- Subject: The dreaded Epson/OSX/Snow Leopard Scrum dot issue
- From: James Horne <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:02:11 +1000
- Thread-topic: The dreaded Epson/OSX/Snow Leopard Scrum dot issue
Hi All
I'm positive there must already be many robust discussions of the cyan/grey
overprinting issue when printing from CS5 (and earlier versions?) on later
versions of OSX to Epson printers. I have been gleaning information from a
number of sources and I think that I have encountered a variable that does
not seem to have been mentioned yet. I don't understand the relevance of it
but hope that the observation may be useful to people who are working to
resolve the issue. I apologise if this has been mentioned before.
I have a setup in which I either do or don't get the overprint issue simply
by changing a single variable, the scaling factor in the print dialog of my
CS5 application. Indeed, I thought it must be an artefact of the scaling
process until I read more widely. The details:
OSX 10.6.7 (and OSX 10.6.4 previously)
CS5
Epson R2400
Printing at 100%, as selected in the CS5 print dialog gives clean prints
with no overprinted border. I scaled my images prior to printing to around
5cm smaller than the extents of the cut sheet and have checked with a
magnifying glass and good lighting. There is no ink beyond the printed
image.
Printing at a smaller scale, similarly selected in the dialog, yields prints
with the light cyan overprint to within ~4mm of the edge of the cut sheet
(probably as specified in the printing extents of my page setup in the
driver).
Also, selecting "printer manages color" in CS5 and manually pulling in a
profile via the print driver and using colorsync gives clean prints.
Clearly CS5 needs to be involved for the overprint to happen on my system.
I don't think there is anything new in this last observation but maybe the
first offers something new.
I hope it helps and I hope we get a resolution sooner rather than later. I
wish I could be more useful.
Cheers
James
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