Hey folks,
Took the Mac plunge from the Windows world and trying to get my head around the "Mac Way". So far it's been pretty painless except for the printing. Hoping someone here can fill me in as Epson et al have been most unhelpful.
I have an Epson R-1800 and I work with a managed color workflow. One of the convincing points to the Mac was the integrated ColorSync and what I thought would be a much better color integration.
So let me boil it down into two parts: Attached and networked.
Attached I can get the Epson driver to install and after some coaching from Epson I got the printer profiles installed. However I cannot for the life of me find the printer configuration dialog to turn off ICM and assign the paper type, size and other settings to let Photoshop manage color. Hopefully this one will be a no-brainer for someone out there. I can get the ColorSync panel up - it shows two Epson Stylus R1800 printers - one with RGB, CMYK and something else with RGB default (which I assume is what the little blue dot next to that setting means). The second shows all the profiles and the Factory Default is selected. Nothing I do will change the little blue dot to another setting.
#2 I might just have to give up on but I find it tough to believe nobody has ironed it out yet. Initially I wanted to leave the printer on my XP machine and just use it as a shared network printer. I can see the printer but there is no way to get the Epson driver associated with it - rather it will only use the GIMP drivers which is totally unacceptable.
Help is definitely appreciated after dropping this kind of cash on the Mac to improve my life - not make it harder.
Thanks,
Jon
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Jon,
Q #1:
You don't need to touch ColorSync (using ColorSync Utility) on your Mac unless you are affected the pink/salmon issue (search on the forum). In Photoshop, use "Photosop Manages Colors" and set your printer profile, then, when the OS print dialog is displayed, choose the Color Management tab and choose "No Color Adjustment". You'll also need to select correct the type of media and other printer specific options.
I've also attached a copy of the settings I use in the ColorSync Utility application. If you really want to change the "blue dot", you need to locate "Current Profile" and click on the little triangle and choose a profile. In my example, I'm using Generic RGB to avoid the salmon/pink banding issue.
Q #2: I don't know if it is possible!