Re: Epson 9900 printing issues
Re: Epson 9900 printing issues
- Subject: Re: Epson 9900 printing issues
- From: Peter Figen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:43:13 -0800
I've recently run into problems similar to Martin's while printing to an Epson 9900. I've had no problems with print sizing or 44 inch wide prints, but I have run into this weird cyanish mist overprint issue.
When I upgraded to Snow Leopard a couple of months ago, I started seeing what Joe Holmes calls one of the "dark bugs" that can infect the Epson/Apple/Adobe system when printing from CS3. CS3 had always been my most reliable way of printing from Ps through the Epson driver and had never given me the problems I had experienced in CS4 or the horrible interface "improvements" of CS5.
In order to get a project printed on time, I started printing from CS5, letting Ps manage the color and overall, the prints were perfect. At least until I noticed the slight cyanish overprint that was only outside of the actual image area, occupying a band in the white border on the top and bottom of the frame.
Everything I read online pointed to version 4 ICC profiles and although I have never made those, I double checked the preferences in ProfileMaker 5.10 and they were still at version 2. After a conversation with Joe Holmes, I tried printing using Epson's Seiko profiles that were made in Japan, and also printing using the Gretag profiles printing through the Adobe Color Print Utility, and neither of those two options resulted in the overprint. I did not experience any of the bugs in the Adobe Utility that Joe has experienced, but printing through that adds needless steps to the process which are a pain in the ass when you've got a huge print job to get out the door. And I did completely wipe all drivers from the print center and reinstall the latest Epson drivers downloaded from Epson's site.
Of course, printing black and white using Advanced Black and White has no overprint either.
Whatever is causing this seems to be triggered by some interaction between whatever is in Snow Leopard and something in the Gretag profiles.
That's as far as I've gotten in solving this, and no one seems to have any sort of idea or explanation - not my x-rite dealer, not Joe Holmes, not the folks I spoke to at Chromix.
Peter Figen _______________________________________________
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