Have you tried printing from "Print with Preview" in Photoshop? I find that it works better with profiles than other programs. Also, make sure to turn color controls OFF (under "Color Handling:" slect "No color management"), do that AGAIN under the print dialog boxes when selecting paper size, oreintation, etc.
The only other suggestion I have is not to use generic paper profiles, even one supplied by paper manufacturers. In my experience, they're never as good a creating your own. ColorVision makes a spectrocolorimeter to read color swatches printed on the paper you're creating the profile for. It works works much better than any manufacturer files I've tried. However, there are tricks to doing this correctly, as well. It took many, many emails back and forth to colorVision to finally establish a working, consistant procedure (at least for some of the Epson papers I use). -B --- Christine Aguila <cagu...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Well, I'm stumped: > > I have correctly downloaded and installed some ICC > paper profiles from > Brilliant Museum (matte satin white) & MOAB (white > satin). I finally > learned where to save to & how to install for PC. > These two profiles show > up in Lightroom. I also have chosen "turn off color > adjustment" in the > printer dialog box as all the directions say to do, > so there is no clash > between printer & ICC profile. I've done some test > prints, and the color is > hideous--reddish & black--and dark > > So I tried my usual settings with these two papers > that I've never printed > with before--B. Museum & MOAB: I chose Stylus Epson > 2880, Perceptual, Adobe > RGB in the printer dialogue box and the proper media > type (as I use when > printing on Epson papers), and the prints come out > normal and a virtual > likeness to the monitor. > > I must be doing something wrong--I know the general > view is that ICC > profiles are supposed to give better print > quality--but I just can't figure > out what I'm doing wrong. > > Any suggestions? > Cheers, Christine > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
