Comments on: New Drivers (finally) Resolve Mac OS X 10.6 Epson 2200 Printing Problems http://www.gdanmitchell.com/2009/11/28/new-drivers-finally-resolve-mac-os-x-10-6-epson-2200-printing-problems Daily photographs, news, observations, and ideas about photography Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:48:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chuck Loftis http://www.gdanmitchell.com/2009/11/28/new-drivers-finally-resolve-mac-os-x-10-6-epson-2200-printing-problems/comment-page-1#comment-19029 Chuck Loftis Mon, 24 May 2010 03:21:33 +0000 http://www.gdanmitchell.com/?p=5506#comment-19029 With the latest 10.6.3 updates and EPSONs driver updates (rev 8.23) I still have issues using off the shelf ICC profiles (EPSON and ILFORD to name two sources). Workflow using Photoshop (CS4) performs color management: With legacy ICC profiles and the latest drivers (downloaded in May 2010) from Epson (epson13564.dmg) and then a larger download from Apple (EPSONPrinterDrivers2.3.1.dmg), I have the following issues: - Print a test patch (say 8.5 x 11 image scaled 25% in the CS4 print menu) and print it in lower quarter of the page. - you would expect the printer to scroll the paper to said patch and NOT print a fine mist all over the page, but it does not work as expected. My older icc profiles Epson dated 2003 and Ilford ICC profiles dated 2004, 2008 have the same issue. - Thus color management is incorrect for the new driver and old profiles - I updated my print profiler (Datacolor) to Spyder3Print, and developed new custom profile. - The NEW profile works as expected, printer will scroll to the test patch and print a color corrected image. Not perfect, but now better than the Ilford factory profiles after some tuning. (I reran the old driver and old profiles under 10.5.8 and things work as we expect, so my printer hardware is OK) There is still something amuck with 10.6.3 and EPSON drivers - a custom profile or a 3rd party RIP may be required to work around this this. CAUTION: I had to use CS4 to print the test color patches for the printer profiling to disable color management: Spyder3Print reverted to the preferred printer ICC profile when printing the test patch! With the latest 10.6.3 updates and EPSONs driver updates (rev 8.23) I still have issues using off the shelf ICC profiles (EPSON and ILFORD to name two sources). Workflow using Photoshop (CS4) performs color management:

With legacy ICC profiles and the latest drivers (downloaded in May 2010) from Epson (epson13564.dmg) and then a larger download from Apple (EPSONPrinterDrivers2.3.1.dmg), I have the following issues:
– Print a test patch (say 8.5 x 11 image scaled 25% in the CS4 print menu) and print it in lower quarter of the page.
– you would expect the printer to scroll the paper to said patch and NOT print a fine mist all over the page, but it does not work as expected. My older icc profiles Epson dated 2003 and Ilford ICC profiles dated 2004, 2008 have the same issue.
- Thus color management is incorrect for the new driver and old profiles
- I updated my print profiler (Datacolor) to Spyder3Print, and developed new custom profile.
- The NEW profile works as expected, printer will scroll to the test patch and print a color corrected image. Not perfect, but now better than the Ilford factory profiles after some tuning.

(I reran the old driver and old profiles under 10.5.8 and things work as we expect, so my printer hardware is OK)

There is still something amuck with 10.6.3 and EPSON drivers – a custom profile or a 3rd party RIP may be required to work around this this.

CAUTION: I had to use CS4 to print the test color patches for the printer profiling to disable color management: Spyder3Print reverted to the preferred printer ICC profile when printing the test patch!

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