So i played around again to day. Rainy and s>>>ty so what better thing to do.:-)
Snag still when setting the epson profiles, then i realized i had not unzipped the profiles i downloaded during installation, they were still on the desktop. All i was getting was epson rgb etc. Using those and finally fiquring out i needed to click the icm button to get to the colour off switch, i printed out a fifth test picture. I am using ther glossy papaer, but there is no profile for the plain papaer so i used premglos something. Pretty close. I used a diffrent picture, non horse, with trees and bricks and wood doors. The print was very close to the monitor. I'll get some prem gloss and try again. Once i;m happy i can get good resuts, i'll inform my past and future clients, i have moved into the Epson zone for prints Thanks for all the help. I'll have new ?;s i'm sure when i load the Mac. Dave On 3/22/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I had this hanging about, I figured I'd repost it. > ---- > > Photoshop CS2 - Epson R2400 color managed workflow on Mac OS X > (Windows interface details are slightly different for Page Setup and > Print dialogs, but the methodology is identical.) > > First calibrate the monitor and set up Photoshop CS2's color settings: > > Using the Eye One Display 2 and iMatch software, I calibrate my > monitor to 140 luminance, 5500K white point and gamma 1.8. Other > settings work as well, but these give me a monitor appearance that > looks like what I want. > > Then, in the Adobe Photoshop CS2 'Edit->Color Settings...' dialog, > use the "North American Prepress 2" set as a baseline. Customize that > to use ProPhoto RGB for color and set the policies to convert > embedded profiles to the working colorspace. > > Whenever you open an image file, either convert any embedded profile > to the working colorspace or assign the working colorspace. ProPhoto > RGB is bigger than all the other colorspaces so you can do this with > zero loss. > > Then work on your image. > > Once image adjustment is completed, use "Print with Preview" to setup > the print processing. In the dialog, be sure to press the "More > Options" button to reach the extended toolset, and pick the Color > Management tools from the popup menu. In the Options section, set > Color Handling to "Let Photoshop Determine Colors", pick the profile > for your printer and the Epson paper you're using, set Rendering > Intent to "Relative Colormetric" and leave Black Point Compensation > checked. Click the Page Setup dialog and set the printer type and > page size, orientation. Use the preview window and sizing to fit the > picture to the paper per your desires. > > Once you've done that, click the Print button. This takes you out of > Photoshop's control and into the control of the printer driver. In > the Epson printer driver, first go to the Print Settings panel and > select the media type (paper type), Advanced Color mode, and Best > Photo quality. The next panel to look at is the Color Management > panel: here you want to set color management to "OFF" (remember that > you told Photoshop that it was going to do the color management). > Once done with that, press the Print button. > > Assuming that your monitor calibration is good and the printer-ink- > paper profile is good, you should get a print that looks very much > like what you see on the screen. With the R2400, the profiles for > Epson Enhanced Matte, Epson Premium Glossy, Epson Premium Luster, and > Epson Velvet Fine Art are very very good. > > Godfrey > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
