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Aldo Tristan
 

Photoshop Printing Warning


 
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Photoshop Warning
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Aldo Tristan

 
 
Every time I use Photoshop and make some adjustments to one of my photos, I get a warning/message when I try to print the photo. When the printer is done printing the photo, the results are awful. Colors are all out of whack. I'm using Photoshop CS (Mac version) and my printer is a new EPSON Stylus model.
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September 25, 2008

 

Richard Lynch
  You are most probably set up wrong and making the wrong choices in both color management and when you go to print. Printing can be tricky between installing and selecting the right drivers, calibrating your monitor, and making color management choices that make sense.
It is a big issue, which is why I teach a 4 week course in color here at better photo. I've also blogged about it recently:
The Psychology of Color Management and Calibration
I think you need to start by having the right drivers installed for printing, as if you are choosing the right one, it will know the printer is not postscript. That will not solve the color management problems which will have to be addressed separately.
Does that help?


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September 26, 2008

 

Aldo Tristan
  I downloade the drivers from Epson website and restarted the computer and I still get the same warning message.

Aldo


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October 08, 2008

 

Richard Lynch
  Downloading and installing are good steps. Are you sure you are using the printer driver you installed? Can you display the Print dialog here?

Richard Lynch


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October 08, 2008

 

Aldo Tristan
 
 
  Print Settings 1
Print Settings 1
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  Print Settings 2
Print Settings 2
Print Settings 2

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Here are the printing settings using Photoshop.

Thanks,

Aldo Tristan


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October 13, 2008

 

Richard Lynch
  Aldo,
Please click on the Color Management drop list, choose Output and take another screen shot. If you have checked boxes on that screen (this is where settings for emulsion, interpolation, etc., are), this may be the issue.

Richard


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October 14, 2008

 

Oliver Anderson
  Richard, Downloaded the driver's for my buddys MAC and his new HP printer. (I'm a PC guy) So it presented quite a challenge....Getting it to USE the profile was a whole other problem but its using WAY less ink and the photos look great now. He was hesitant to let me do it and now he's a complete believer.


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October 14, 2008

 

Aldo Tristan
 
 
  Color Management Options
Color Management Options

Aldo Tristan

 
 
Richard thanks for your response, sorry I took so long to reply. By clicking on the Color Management I don't get many options (see attachment).


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October 26, 2008

 

Richard Lynch
  You have to click on Color Management, but select Output as it changes the view of the screen. After the view changes, then take the screen shot.

Richard


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October 26, 2008

 

Aldo Tristan
 
 
  Color Management 2
Color Management 2

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Ok, here it is. Thanks for your help by the way.

Aldo


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October 26, 2008

 
- Carlton Ward

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  Hi Aldo,
I noticed you do not have use color calibration which is what you will set your profile to and it appeared you were printing from an sRGB file.
I highly recommend that you take Richards class and get up to speed with color calibration and printing. I would also recommend that you print from your high res tif image and not a small res jpeg file.
Good Luck - Carlton


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October 26, 2008

 
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