Hi What operating system are you using? What printer are you using? What printer driver are you using? What version of the colorMunki software are you using? Could you expand on

Printed two color patch test sheets on Epson Premium luster paper and created a profile (which, as expected, is basically the same as the supplied ICC profile for that paper from Epson) ? One possibility is I am afraid pilot error. It is very easy to forget which printer path you used when making the test targets and also very easy to use a dose of colour management on the test target - even when you think you have not. The other possibility is that the colour management path is broken on your combination of software and kit. Apple have changed a few things in newer operating systems that older printer drivers do not know about. Some older Epson printers do not create accurate prints and the driver appears to ignore custom profiles.

Best Matthew Ward On 20 Jun 2012, at 04:14, Scott Goldstein wrote:

Pleas

I am trying to color match my IMac computer (27inch cinema screen, using Adobe Lightroom) with my Epson 3880 printer.

I rented the ultra expensive ColorMunki calibrator (since returned) and created a profile for my monitor. Did it twice. Identical results. Everything looks good and balanced. Fine

Then I used the device to calibrate my printer. Printed two color patch test sheets on Epson Premium luster paper and created a profile (which, as expected, is basically the same as the supplied ICC profile for that paper from Epson) Did this twice as well. Fine

But when I use the generated printer profile ( with the Epson printer control OFF), I get really funky prints... kinda stark contrasty and oddly somewhat low in saturation. In a word awful. When I have the printer control the color, it gets a lot closer to the screen image but still not right.

I don't know what to do.

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On Jun 19, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Scott Goldstein wrote:

I rented the ultra expensive ColorMunki calibrator (since returned) and created a profile for my monitor.

Sorry, I'm having a hard just getting past this sentence....."ultra expensive"? Funny how folks can spend the kind of money they do on a medium-to-large format printer, computer and likely a bunch of lenses....and yet the one device that can really make a difference in a color-managed workflow is labeled as expensive when it probably cost less than any SINGLE lens in their camera bag. If the ColorMunki is ultra expensive, what does than make my $5,000 iSisXL spectro and $9,000 Spectrolino/SpectroscanT? :-/ Terry