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jeannehilary
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June 25, 2022
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Print accurate Pantone UP colors from INDD w/o printer profile?

  • June 25, 2022
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Is it possible?
Since the last update, Epson no longer makes profiles for the Epson XP-15000.

I've turned off color controls in the printer settings dialogue box.
Is there any way to set up the Indd print dialogue to get accurate color? 

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Mejor respuesta de Willi Adelberger

Without an output profile no color can be accurate. A generic output profile wouldn't help neither. There are several companies who are delivering color profiler for printers like many do with screens.

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rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
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June 25, 2022

Hi @jeannehilary for my Epson printer on OSX, Epson installs the media .icc profiles in a package, so they are accessible from the OS Epson print driver, but not InDesign’s Print dialog.

 

On OSX the path to the .profile package is

‎⁨startup drive⁩ ▸ ⁨Library⁩ ▸ ⁨Printers⁩ ▸ ⁨EPSON⁩ ▸ ⁨InkjetPrinter2⁩ ▸ ⁨ICCProfiles ▸ EpsonModel.profiles

 

If I right click the .profiles package I can show package Contents and get at the profiles—from there I could copy the profiles into one of the system profile folders where the InDesign Print dialog could see them:

 

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jeannehilaryAutor
Inspiring
June 25, 2022

Thank you, Rob. When I follow that path, I find the icc profiles for the Epson 2200 I replaced with the XP-15000.

The solution to this problem was downloading and reinstalling the Epson software for the latest OS.

When I did this before, a few months ago, the profiles didn't load. An endless call to Epson support landed me with a guy who said Epson doesn't provide profiles for this printer.

So I don't know what the problem was, but now it's fixed. Maybe there was a lag between updating the printer software and updating the profiles for Mac. I've been using Epson printers since the 90s, and its support for Mac OS has not always been the best.

 

Willi Adelberger
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity ExpertRespuesta
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June 25, 2022

Without an output profile no color can be accurate. A generic output profile wouldn't help neither. There are several companies who are delivering color profiler for printers like many do with screens.

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