This may be more a problem associated with early photograph processing, but what I'm seeing is very peculiar. I have a photograph (of my lovely grandmother) that was taken and processed and printed in about 1915. Here is a scan (scanner is Epson V600 Photo) of said photo....
However, this is the way it prints (printer is Epson Artisan 50)....
The print looks like this whether I use 'Photoshop controls colors' or if I let the printer do so.
It appears there was some material added by the photographer to scrub the lower part of the subject so that the image would look as it does. However there is no actual color in the original print, as you can see.
My system is a Dell XPS8700 with an i7 processor and 24gb of ram; Photoshop is version 24.4.1. The Epson printer has a mixture of Epson and generic color cartridges, but I've never had a circumstance like this in any recent prints.
I've considered using a color selection of the red, adding the selection to separate layer and change the color in that layer to a complementary green, but I doubt I could generate a perfect color profile to begin with and have no idea what the result would be. After all red plus green equals black.
I look forward to your suggestions, and I hope there's someone who may have worked on photos of the early 20th century in your staff :). Is there a way to suppress a certain color in printing? Perplexing issue.
Thanks, Bruce
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Hi @bruceb76700895 I can see the images in your last post. Yes it was me who requested that test. So there's likely an issue with your printer it seems - but you may want to try resetting Photoshop in case that helps? Maybe print using another image utility and see if you see the same error (albeit with inaccurate colour)
Perhaps try a thorough reset of Photoshop preferences?
(read this entire post before acting please)
Resetting restores Photoshop's internal preferences, which are saved when
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A couple of ways to cross-check this…
Are you familiar with soft-proofing, which is simulating the printing conditions on screen using a color profile of it? Because many issues translating the image colors to the printing inks should also show up if it’s soft-proofed. I have a different Epson printer, but I set up View > Proof Setup > Custom in the way shown below, and I saw no problems with the first image you posted. You can set yours up the same way, with the main difference being that in the Device to Simulate menu, you should choose the color profile consistent with the paper and inks you’re using. Your Custom Proof Condition menu will probably say “Custom” unless you save it, and it will work fine that way.
After you click OK, this print simulation will be in effect; to disable it choose the View > Proof Colors command to deselect it.
If the same problem doesn’t appear when you do a soft-proof simulation of the print colors, then another thing to try is to make sure the inks are working properly. If you haven’t already run a nozzle check since this problem started, run one and make sure all nozzles are firing. Because another common cause of problems that look like that are some ink nozzles being clogged and not filling in those tones or colors properly.
I agree with Conrad that this looks like ink nozzle clogging.
Just looking at the finished print, the red blotching is the result of excessive green and blue channel clipping in the low end:
If the yellow color cast bothers you and you want to "normalize" the color, this is just a curves and a levels layer:
Thank you for this update, whoever sent same (Neil?)
Since my last post I photographed the Old Photo and processed same to this
image.....
It prints, however, like this....
This print appears to be lacking in yellow, even though the yellow shows up
on a nozzle check. In more than mild frustration I replaced all the ink
cartridges with Epson cartridges, which I bought a couple weeks ago because
my prints looked a little strange and I thought it was due to some really
bad generic cartridges I had bought earlier. Nyet. Even with a full range
of Epson cartridges the print looks the same. (And yes, all the prints
were in jpg, which I'm assuming squashes layers.)
I also noticed the open line on the left of the subject, and supposed it
could be due to higher resolution of a slight blur. Also nyet, see below.
Then I received the prompt to download a test image, which I did and here's
a scan of the result. You'll notice the same red wash on the monochrome
image in the upper left, and also the same open line as mentioned above.
So, I need recommendations for a new printer, especially one that will use
the same Epson cartridges :).
Thanks to all who contributed to this thread, especially the person who
sent the info from colourmanagement!
Can you post these two windows,
if you are are using the correct settings, ie disabling colour management in the print driver and letting photoshop colour manage then I would suggest youve either blocked the head in some way using 3rd party inks or havent purged them from the system yet. You can still have a blocked or damaged head even if you have good nozzel check pattern, its only a rough guide for the user. Im just in the process of replacing rather expensive head on my Epson 9900 that is printing perfect check patterns.
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