I have a file with 2 layers, one of which is a solid color fill background layer (unlocked). I wanted to change the color of the fill for a new print so changed from a green to yellowish color. First print yesterday was fine and saved file.
Opened file today, made print, background fill is correct on monitor, green in print. Changed density of fill from 18 to 34%, now printed correctly but darker, so reset fill to 18%, prints out green, (as in the original file before I made the change and saved the file) - monitor and print preview show correct yellow!!??? Have match print color checked and no out of gamut issues.
Actually just checked again - selecting paper white in print preview shifts color to green!! Monitor is calibrated with spyder3, so it is accurate. This is a moderate color r = 248 g= 221 b = 173
checked all ink levels and all are fine,ran nozzle check but this is not likely a printer issue since it did print correctly yesterday and will print right color if density is changed today.
no other changes were made to file
printer is epson 2200, OS X 10.5.5 mac pro 8 gigs paper is enhanced matte.
#1
Peter,
Do you have a compatible driver for your Epson 2200 to run on Mac OS X 10.5.5 and Photoshop CS4?
Neil
#2
Did you inadvertently change your color settings to use "Absolute Colorimetric" instead of "Relative Colorimetric"?
#3
Thanksfor the suggestions - the Epson driver is fine with CS3 and 10.5.5, so I don't think that is the issue. I did check on settings, at it is for relative Colormetric.
In some ways it almost seems that CS4 is printing the earlier version of the file: the bbackgroundd color is basically the same green.
#4
Try running Cocktail to clean-out your Printing caches.
#5
The driver for the 2200 is severely crippled in 10.5 which is one reason I have stayed with 10.4 on my work machine. Epson has not released a Leopard driver and won't. and under Tiger the 2200 works just fine with CS3 and CS4.
#6
What Buko says. I also have an Epson 2200, one of several reasons I'm staying with 10.4.11. Epson has already indicated that they will not be updating the driver for the 2200 for Leopard.
#7
That isn't an option for me as my Mac came with Leopard
#8
That isn't an option for me as my Mac came with Leopard
Understood. I was just emphasizing that the driver for the Epson 2200 was never updated for Leopard, in the light of what you posted in #3:
the Epson driver is fine with CS3 and 10.5.5
Wish that were the case, but it's not.
#9
I'm going to try gutenprint which appears to have a 16 bit epson 2200 driver.
#10
going to try gutenprint which appears to have a 16 bit epson 2200 driver.
Oooh! That would be great!
#11
Holy cow! There are enough options in the gutenprint driver to choke a horse (to mix animal metaphors) and it worked. Just downloaded gutenprint from source forge - followed the instructions for install, selected the printer and got the right results.
#12