Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: roskav on October 15, 2009, 11:26:05 am
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Hello Folkes
I have a new Epson 3800 which has been profiled with Ilford Galerie Smooth pearl with an eye-one extreme.
I did notice that the printouts were a bit warmer initially but recently I have been trying to print front of house shots for theatres and I find that the skin tones are very red/yellow and have almost orange solarization bands around the shadow highlight transitions. As usual time is tight and I don't have much of it to be trying out different papers etc but I was wondering if this sounds familiar to anyone and maybe find out any solution?
PS, Worklflow: Printing from Photoshop CS3... uncheck "Match print colours"... then "perceptual" "black point compensation" profile correct etc. Then in Epson dialogue ... disable colour settings etc.
Hope someone can help.
Ros
Oh hang on I'll post an image here you go.
PPS. All looks fine on screen at all stages inc. gamut warning, proof colours and even thumbnails in printer dialogue .
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PPPS this is the image I'm trying to print from
Ros
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PPPS this is the image I'm trying to print from
Ros
too many possibilities here, but how does "Soft proofing" in CS3 compare to the final print? Zoom in on the image and look for defects.
I have a 3800, used that paper, and print mainly from Lightroom.
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Make sure you select "Photoshop Manages Color" in the CS3 print with preview window. Select "Document" also, not "Proof" (The source image will have something like AdobeRGB or sRGB next to it). Also, the "Match Print Colors" only relates to the image as it appears in the little preview window. If by disabling Epson "Printer Color Management" toggle, you mean selecting "Off/ No Color Adjustment", that is correct. In the Epson "Print Settings" toggle, select "Color", "Media Type", "Advanced Settings"
I use "Relative" with BPC checked, but if your profile maker suggests perceptual, try that first. BPC has no effect on the Perceptual intent.
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All looks ok in the soft proof with the printer profile set as the default. Yes the tonal grads become a bit more jumpy but there are no colour changes or flat areas of colour with no detail as is happening in the print.
Yes there are probably too many variables .. I'm getting my supplier to look at it next week.
Ros
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Could be a bad profile also. Even ones I make myself have a glich rate of something like 1 out of 100 or something like that. And it usually manifests itself in the form of weird banding in tonal transitions.
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Thanks all .. tried "Relative Colormetric" to no avail.
Re profiles .. I have tried 2 different Eye ones, one Colormunki and the downloaded profile from Ilford... all also to no avail.
(Interestingly the eye ones and the Ilford profile have little difference between them .. the Colormunki has the most variation.
Ros
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Do you print from a Mac? It looks like the well known "salmon issue". The image you posted is a bit too small to be sure.
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Salmon issue? .. will look up!
Ros
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Salmon issue? .. will look up!
Ros
If I remember correctly you can try to:
• Make sure that your Epson printer is the default printer
or
• Use the ColorySync Utility to set the default printer for your 3800 to profile to Generic RGB
PS: you should find a thread with salmon issue and the Epson 4000. It's quite old…
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Just changed profile to generic rgb as described in thread and restarted computer... am printing at present and will tell you how it goes in about 3 mins
R
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HORAY!!!!
Best result from LL forums in a long time! Thanks all very much.
Ros
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You're welcome Ros. Glad to see that your problem could be solved rapidly!