O.K In the great tradition of these postings; I may have missed something here but......You say that the situation with Epson printers and Windows systems is that the ICC profiles for the printer and each individual paper are hidden in the Epson standard file and not accessable.
Well when I access the Profile drop down menu in the Proof setup dialogue, I see listings for all of the different options for the Epson 600 stylus printer that photoshop obviously found installed on my system, such as Glossy Paper 1440, Photo paper 1440 etc, and there is no mention of "Epson Standard". Surely these items in the drop down are the ICC profiles in question ? ! They seem to match the media listed in the windows/Epson printer driver, and as far as I understand it you say that the printer driver extracts the relevant ICC profile for whatever media is selected, such as plain paper 360 dpi or Glossy Paper 1440 DPI etc...
Also the Simulate paper white and ink black checkboxes are greyed out in this dialogue.
Lastly when I create a duplicate of my 8 bit greyscale image and select View, Proof colours the image goes REAL dark and takes on a colour cast, sort of muddy green. Bearing in mind that I FULLY comprehend your explanations of the soft proof process and the effects of different rendering intents and the resultant change in appearance from one to another, I still cannot see what is going on here. To reiterate my confusion about the Epson driver/ICC issue, I am sitting here with "Real World Photoshop 6" on the desk open at page 357 and the picture of the Proof setup dialogue shows that the ICC profile for the Epson 1270 with Heavy wheight matt paper has been selected, you mention in the article that one must obtain and install the relevant ICC profiles in order to have access to them, and as I understand it, that otherwise you will only have the option of selecting "Epson Standard" and turning on ICM in the non photoshop end of the Epson printer driver. But I seem to have the ICC Profiles listed.
So any comments to clarrify this issue would be appreciated
Many thanks in advance.
Neil Tribe
Submitted by Neil Tribe on Fri, 11/09/2001 - 16:11.
but I reloaded photo 5.5 --- i have a pentium III 800 Mhz; 256 megs of ram; 20 gig hard drive and photo 6 was going slow! I know its gotta be me... that I'm missing the boat somewhere, but I'm really busy and can't take time to figger it out --- any quick fixes? email: izziart@nuc.net {thanks}
ICC Profiles ARE present with Epson printer but Paper white and
O.K In the great tradition of these postings; I may have missed something here but......You say that the situation with Epson printers and Windows systems is that the ICC profiles for the printer and each individual paper are hidden in the Epson standard file and not accessable.
Well when I access the Profile drop down menu in the Proof setup dialogue, I see listings for all of the different options for the Epson 600 stylus printer that photoshop obviously found installed on my system, such as Glossy Paper 1440, Photo paper 1440 etc, and there is no mention of "Epson Standard". Surely these items in the drop down are the ICC profiles in question ? ! They seem to match the media listed in the windows/Epson printer driver, and as far as I understand it you say that the printer driver extracts the relevant ICC profile for whatever media is selected, such as plain paper 360 dpi or Glossy Paper 1440 DPI etc...
Also the Simulate paper white and ink black checkboxes are greyed out in this dialogue.
Lastly when I create a duplicate of my 8 bit greyscale image and select View, Proof colours the image goes REAL dark and takes on a colour cast, sort of muddy green. Bearing in mind that I FULLY comprehend your explanations of the soft proof process and the effects of different rendering intents and the resultant change in appearance from one to another, I still cannot see what is going on here. To reiterate my confusion about the Epson driver/ICC issue, I am sitting here with "Real World Photoshop 6" on the desk open at page 357 and the picture of the Proof setup dialogue shows that the ICC profile for the Epson 1270 with Heavy wheight matt paper has been selected, you mention in the article that one must obtain and install the relevant ICC profiles in order to have access to them, and as I understand it, that otherwise you will only have the option of selecting "Epson Standard" and turning on ICM in the non photoshop end of the Epson printer driver. But I seem to have the ICC Profiles listed.
So any comments to clarrify this issue would be appreciated
Many thanks in advance.
Neil Tribe
not to get OFF the subject . . .
but I reloaded photo 5.5 --- i have a pentium III 800 Mhz; 256 megs of ram; 20 gig hard drive and photo 6 was going slow! I know its gotta be me... that I'm missing the boat somewhere, but I'm really busy and can't take time to figger it out --- any quick fixes? email: izziart@nuc.net {thanks}
good topic to cover
much needed subject to cover
These articles are extremely helpful.
Just some feedback: There are very few places in print, or on the web which provide such helpful coverage as yours. Please keep up the good work.
(note: This isn't the type of article to agree/disagree with. Try "helpful / not helpful" e.g.)