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Rob Hadlow
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September 19, 2024
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PS 25.11.0 Won't Properly Print a Colour to a 3880

  • September 19, 2024
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Hello;

 

Using an Apple MacBook Pro Late 2019 w/ currently OS Sonoma 14.6.1 and PS 25.11.0

For rougly the last Four (4) Years, I cannot print any images that have Heavy Greens.

Everytime I print an image with heavy greens in the image, the greens go to mud and are just ugly.

Screen is Calibrated, using the correct printer profiles and settings, but nothing with heavy greens prints correctly, just mud..

 

I've heard that ADOBE has stoped supporting the 3880 Printer?? Still shoes up in teh print menu, but wondering is somewhere written into the sofware it doesn't reconize the 3880 to it's fullest anymore?? 

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Conrad_C
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Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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September 19, 2024

Adobe doesn’t directly support or not support any printers. Typically, if the currently installed printer driver software is compatible with the current OS, it should work. Photoshop and the other Adobe apps simply send standard image data to whatever printer driver software is selected. From that point, it’s the responsibility of the printer’s driver software to properly receive the data and render it to what the printer needs. 

 

Because Photoshop doesn’t directly support or not support the Epson 3880, printing to it should be no different than it was before. I just printed large images for a show on my Epson 3880 on macOS 14.6.1, and had absolutely zero problems. Now, that was with Adobe Lightroom Classic, not Photoshop, but it would be highly unusual for only one of those applications to no longer work with the same printer driver software.

 

So the problem you’re seeing may be something that just needs troubleshooting. I might try a test print or two from Photoshop to my 3880 just to make sure that Photoshop still works with it, but there has no indication that anything has changed in this area.

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Rob HadlowAuthor
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September 19, 2024
I know the printer works, just finished a big print job.
However those were colours but green. In the last four years when I print something with Mostly Green, it goes muddy. All paper, matt, lustre. Just aweful.

Never used to be that way.

Thxs
NB, colourmanagement
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NB, colourmanagementCommunity Expert
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September 24, 2024

@Rob Hadlow You'll need an icc profile specifically for the printer model, media and ink loaded. Do you have that? Also, be aware that you need to set the "printer settings" to those used by the profile maker. If you are using non-Epson media those details need to come from whomever mad the ICC profile. 

Its also important to note that some rich on-screen colours are beyond the gamut of the printer/ink/ media capabilities.

Photoshop's view/Gamut warning can help with anticipation of this but only if the media ICC profile is accurate 

 

I hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net - adobe forum volunteer - co-author: 'getting colour right'
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