I appreciate your response Rodney and wonder what I am up against here. I print a lot of art, some original and some other people's art. What I was doing yesterday was printing a batch of photographs made by an experience photographer. He had done the color correction he wanted and gave me the images. I laid them out on a large canvas to print for simplicity and to save paper. I was wondering if that caused some issue, though I can't imagine why. I then tried printing them separately and got the same color cast. As I said above, it changed somewhat with changed rendering intent, but it was there. Then I sent the print management to the printer, which I had never done, using the epson print driver, and the cast went away.
I downloaded your test print that is similar to one I use and it looks to me like the color cast is not there today. Other things I printed today both using the Photoshop Drivers and the Epson drives do not have the colorcast.
I don't think it was the photographers images, per se, as the cast did not show up on the monitor or print preview and did not print with the Epson drivers, only the Photoshop drivers, but it is gone today.
I just signed up on the pluralsight web site and am going to watch your video, Photoshop CC color Management. Is that the one I should watch?
Any thoughts on why I was getting the colorcast. I have a spectrometer and was going to make my own print profile for the paper. The x-rite software will let me profile the exact colors in an image.
Printing photography is very different than printing art. The photographer I was working with yesterday was talking about Ansel Adams and how he thought Adam's skill was as much in the darkroom as behind the camera. It makes me think that photographers should be their own printers today as printing photography seems to me to present its own challenges.
In the 1960s I had a lithographic offset print shop and a large darkroom and we attempted what we do now in Photoshop in the darkroom with chemicals and enlargers and our imaginations. We had a large positive printing-on-paper camera and a large process camera that printed negatives for the printing plates. Photographic color photo separations for printing was too expensive and technical for us so we did the separations manually for the multicolor art we printed. It was a different animal than today. Gradients were created by mixing the ink on the printer. We worked with an old 17x22 inch Harris that could spit out a thousand prints and hour.
--Kenoli
