Printing Woes

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Ok, here's one for any printing experts out there. I don't print much, 2-3 times a year - you'll see why in a minute.
Print results - beautifully sharp, nice saturation, wrong colours. Can have a blue cast yellow cast overall colours very different to image.
Equipment - CS2, Epson R800, Spyder 2 calibration, Dell laptop screen, Dell PC screen. Tried through Vista and XP.
Updated drivers, updated ICC profiles
RGB colour space
Soft proofed
Printer & photoshop determine colours, relative, perceptual etc.
Turned off management etc etc
printed on full range of papers - archival to glossy
Plus much more.............. where's the check box that tells the printer to behave?
 
use it more than 2-3 times a year might help lol


have you done a nozzel check?
 
Printing from CS2, try the following:

Print with Preview
Make sure More options are shown
Color Management:

Print: Document
Colour Handling: Let Photoshop determine colours
Printer Profile: select the right one for your printer/ink/paper.
Rendering intent: relative colormetric

Click Print...

Click Properties...
In the printer options go to the advanced page
Select ICM and then Off (no colour adjustment)
Select the right paper type and Photo for mode
Turn off High Speed and Edge Smoothing

That's a pretty basic setup that should get a fairly good print.

When you say the colours are different, how much so? Do blues appear as yellow or something similar?

Perhaps posting a couple of shots of an image before and after tweaks for a decent print might shed some light???
 
To be honest if your only printing 2-3 times per year your probably better off using an online company and saving all this wasted time.
 
Are you using the same colour space all the way through the process from the camera to printing? Big difference between AdobeRGB and sRGB.
 
Colour settings-
europe prepress
adobe rgb
CMYK;europe iso coated FOGRA27
Gray;dot gain 15%
Spot; Dot gain 15%

RGB; Preserve embedded profiles
CMYK; Preserve embedded profiles
Gray; Preserve embedded profiles
3 boxes checked

Engine; Adobe (ACE)
Intent; Relative colorimetric
next 2 boxes checked

that's it
 
Ok, try this:

Go to View > Proof Setup > Custom...

In the Device to Simulate dropdown can you see a list of profiles and specifically the one for your printer.

If you can then I think it would be useful to post some screen grabs of the windows from CS2's print panel and also your printer settings so we can double check everything.

You SHOULD be able to select a profile in the CS2 print window, get that working and things should get better.
 
Thanks everyone - and thanks to Dave. I followed the tutorials step by step (took some time!) and the prints are now looking something like they should - the main 'fixing points' were in edit >color settings where I reset to reccomendations and on the printer profile choosing ICM > Applied by printer software.
I still have some way to go but can see the light now! literally!
Cheers
Joe
 
never mind all that, get my Ball and socket head packaged up for sending :thumbs:
 
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