printing via printer management

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November 12, 2024
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Colour profiles show up in Photoshop but not via the Epson print management. The ICC profiles are in what I believe to be the correct Profile folder in the ColorSync folder. I have reinstalled the print driver. Also, when printing from other apps via the Epson 2880 printer, all the expected profiles are available. Advice please.

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NB, colourmanagement

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@melichar if you follow the instruction from @bellevue scott do you now see device profiles listed?

Selecting 'Printer color management' in Photoshop passes the output device profile selection to the printer driver software where the ICC profile (that auto-selection of the output device profile is based on the media option selected by the user inside "printer settings".

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Thanks for your reply
Perhaps my problem - profiles not appearing when printing is managed by the printer - was not clearly expressed. The solution to the problem was to change the 'Photo Black' ink cartridge to the 'Matte Black' cartridge, and the desired profiles appeared.
I don't know if this is an idiotic feature or a bug.

NB, colourmanagement

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@melichar Some confusion here I think - "Perhaps my problem - profiles not appearing when printing is managed by the printer - was not clearly expressed."

I think you are right.

When selecting "Printer manages color" you normally won't see your ICC profiles.

Photoshop manages Color would show your ICC profiles - Is that where you're looking for them?

See below

here I have an Epson 4900 ICC Ultrasmnooth media ICC profile selected

that's where ICC profiles are shown in Photoshop printing

Epson print drivers [accessed via print settings] is where you find media types

That dialog will not show media types which are unsupported by the loaded ink.

I've a feeling the missing "profiles" you're mentioning aren't ICC color profiles at all, but items missing from the list of media names - those which are found in "print settings" under media type? Is that right?

see below

With an Epson, certain media needs matte ink and certain media needs photo ink.

If you have matte ink loaded, then ONLY the names of media which Epson recommend using matt ink upon will show up in the driver dialogue shown above in "Media Type"

If your media is gloss then it's the opposite, photo ink has to be loaded for those media names to show up.

This feature is designed to save Epson's users from wasting ink on media it's not suited for.

Does that make sense?

"Media types/names" and "ICC media profiles" are two different things and appear in different places.

Although, of course, ICC profiles do include the name of the media they are made for. And the name of the printer. within

You don't see the name of the printer in "media typer" within the print driver. I hope that helps you to see the difference.

I suspect you've been thinking driver media types ARE ICC profiles?

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