Cannot find where to turn off colour management in Adobe colour utility

[Vicki29023941qjbt]

 Hi all. I have an Epson 970 and some Marrutt fine art paper and the colours on the printout outs are too dark and cold. After doing research i downloaded the adobe colour management utility and i am following the you tube videos for PC (windows 10). on the tutorials it says to go into the app and select 'print', then to go into Mode and turn colour management off. I don't see an option for this. I don't have photoshop or any fancy photo apps so that isnt the problem. I am definitly within the utility app. I have attached what the you tube video displays compared to what i am seeing. Hope someone can help 🙂 Thanks 

[Per Berntsen]

The ability to turn off color management is a feature usually found with dedicated photo printers.

You seem to have an all-in-one printer, which might not have this feature.

I looked at the manual for the XP-970 online, and there is no mention of color management.

[Vicki29023941qjbt]

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. So I think maybe just print it off with the settings I use through the utility? And send that off to the paper company for the profile? 🤔

[Per Berntsen]

I took a closer look at the manual, it might be possible to turn color management off after all.

https://files.support.epson.com/docid/cpd5/cpd57393/index.html

https://files.support.epson.com/docid/cpd5/cpd57393/index.html

Set Color management to ICM,

then set Color correction to Custom, and click the Advanced button.

 

[Vicki29023941qjbt]

Oh wow thank you so much. I will have a go today. Thank you so much 👌

[Per Berntsen]

You say you don't have Photoshop, so what application are you printing from?

When you get your profile for the paper/printer combo, the procedure is to set that printer profile in the application you print from (I use Photoshop), and to disable color management in the printer driver.

I suspect that you can set the printer profile only in professional software, like Photoshop or Lightroom.

So if the application you print from doesn't let you do this, you're back to square one.

My advice would be to subscribe to the Photography Plan (20 GB), which includes Photoshop, Lightroom Classic and Lightroom at 10 US Dollars (or equivalent) a month.

If that's not an option, you'll have to play around with the settings in the Color correction tab of the printer driver, and see if that can get you acceptable colors.

[NB, colourmanagement]

@Vicki29023941qjbt 

1: that doesn’t look like an Epson driver to me but perhaps something generic, the real driver should show actual paper name such as "Premium Luster", "premium semigloss'

2: If Marrutt (or another service) are wanting you to print the target out for profiling, then printer color management does indeed need to be disabled and they are the ones to support you on this, the option to disable colormanagement is part of the printer driver software, not an Adobe program. It's sometimes hidden in an advanced section.

You wrote: I don't have photoshop or any fancy photo apps so that isn't the problem. 

That will very likely become a problem when you want to use the ICC profle made for you, you can't use an ICC profile in the Adobe Color Print Utility, its only intended use is for printing colour patches when making profiles.

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