Printing too dark in CS4

Larry:

No Problem. I'm glad that this worked for you.

THM

BINGO - Tom Thank you. I just printed the first CS4 matching print without a bunch of girations on my Epson R1800.

Greetings to All:

This is to all Epson R1800 users that have had trouble printing with Intel Mac's in CS4 or LR2. Despite everyone's suggestions in this forum, I couldn't get anything to work. The prints were too dark and adjusting the image to lighten it before printing defeated the purpose of working in a color managed workflow. I found a thread on these Adobe Forums (now lost) that suggested downloading the R1800 driver from the Epson European site - Epson UK. The Driver is 6.23 and is listed as 322037eu dmg. You will find it if you look on the right side menu, select your printer model, operating system etc and download. It is a 66mb file so it takes a while. I am not advocating this but it worked for me. You have to remove the old driver (6.12) then install the new driver. There might be some other adjustments depending or your particular setup. For example, the paper names are different and the menus aren't the same.

By the way, if you look at this site it is clear that the Europeans clearly anticipated the advent of Leopard and began the process of developing drivers to suit. No pun intended but why do we live in the dark ages?

Happy New year to all,

Tom Mikkelsen

To stop this Mac OS/Printer nonsense just go online and get the latest updates for a PC/XP.

I prep on the Mac, print on the eMachine PC/XP. No sweat. BTW: I still print documents on the Mac but not the money stuff.

Yes, but the Darker setting really is the "normal" setting. When you send a gamma 2.2 file through ABW, that Darker setting should give you a print that very closely matches your calibrated screen.

Under the advanced B&W setup, there are choices for darkness settings. The default is darker. If you have not already, reset it to normal. I am not sure what names they use, since I am at work and do not have access to the printer. But you will see what I mean.

Just to let you know the new Canon iPF series 1.91 drivers on the Japanese site fixes the PSCS4 and LR2.1 double profiling problems with the iPF9000.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcweb.canon.jp%2Fdrv-upd%2Fbj4b%2Fbj4b-driver.html&sl=ja&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

With CM by PS the Color Matching selection in the driver setup are still grayed out but in Main/Color/Set/ No Correction in now the choice. It used to default to ColorSync which resulted in double profiling when printing from PSCS4. The behavior is now back to the way it was in PSCS3. Plugin still works fine with the 1.91 drivers installed.

I can also select Fast Graphic Process but I still cannot select monochrome.

All I did was install the iPF81009100-Drv-MacX5-191. I did not add any printers. Just installing this driver fixed this problem.

I suspect for those with the iPF5000 installing the 1.90 driver would fix this as well.

Doyle

Buko

Don't confuse IDCS3 with PSCS3. Those are entirely two separate problems.

And speaking of ID and IL. Why can I have all the printer controls available to me in ID and IL and can not have all the printer controls available to me in PS and LR. I had all the printer controls available to me in LR1.4.1. So why change it in LR2.1?

Talk about going around and around.

But I will say it's not just Adobe. This same issue has now popped up in Canon's DPP 3.51 and with Canon own printer drivers.

When ever 10.5.6 is released lets hope there is some fixes for all of this.

I love it when people who are supposed to know what they're doing go around and around.
Now the whole damn country and most of the rest of the world is doing it.
Why doesn't some one fix ColorSync while they're at it?

There was printing in Photoshop BP and then there's printing in Photoshop AP.

BP = before Polaschek; AP = after Polaschek arrived on the scene. Coincidence?