[alt-photo] Re: printer weirdness
clay harmon/website
clay at clayharmon.com
Wed Sep 28 22:42:49 GMT 2011
Also:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/873/cpsid_87360.html
here is the link to their utility
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/834/cpsid_83497.html
On Sep 28, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Joseph Smigiel wrote:
> Our college's Photo Lab just purchased a new Epson Stylus Pro 4900 and
> we are running Photoshop CS5.1 with Mac OSX v10.6.8 on an I-Mac. I'm
> trying to calibrate the color output using a new X-Rite ColorMunki.
> I've run the auto calibration for that colorimeter and have profiled
> the monitor and printer using that device. I'm using the standard
> Adobe Ole.tiff file to check the output. The paper is Ilford Galerie
> Smooth Pearl and I've loaded the proper icc profile for that paper
> initially and set the print driver to the recommended semigloss paper
> type setting before loading the profiles generated by the ColorMunki.
>
> I must have something set wrong because the printer is printing a pale
> blue surrounding the image. The image file is only 3"x4" and the
> maximum printing area around it on the letter-sized paper has this
> blue tint with a paper-white margin. This is happening with two
> different computers networked to the printer.
>
> Anyone know why the 4900 is printing something in this non-image area?
>
> I've turned color management off in the printer dialog but have also
> tried some with the printer managing color and I get the same result
> with the blue surround. I've tried having proof settings on or off,
> simulating paper white on or off, and so on with no apparent
> difference in the printing.
>
> What's going on? I'm lost.
>
> Joe
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