The examples in the instructions below show the Epson Stylus Pro 7880 printer, but you’ll see your printer name instead. Be sure to have an image/print job open in Adobe Photoshop and ready to print before beginning with the steps below.
Selecting Your Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Printer Driver Settings
- Open the File menu in Adobe Photoshop and select Print.
- Under Color Handling, choose Printer Manages Color.
- Select Relative Colorimetric as the Rendering setting.
Note: If your image contains very saturated colors, select Perceptual. This reduces the color saturation so that the colors fit within the printer’s color gamut. - Select the Black Point Compensation checkbox, if available.
- Click the Print button. Your printer driver’s Print window appears.
- Select your printer from the Printer menu.
- If necessary, click the button to expand the Print window.
- Select Print Settings from the pop-up menu.
- Select EPSON Standard (sRGB) or Adobe RGB for Color Settings.
Note: Many customers select EPSON Standard (sRGB) for this setting. - If you’re printing from an Epson Stylus Pro 4880, 7880, 9880, or 11880 printer and your prints are coming out dark, click on Advanced Color Settings and change the default Gamma setting from 2.2 to 1.8 (previous Epson Stylus Pro printer models have a default Gamma setting of 1.8). Click Basic when done.
- Click Print to begin printing.
Printer and scanner drivers for Mac If you have an older printer that doesn't support driverless technology, your Mac might automatically install the driver software needed to use that device. Many printers and scanners use driverless technologies such as AirPrint or IPP Everywhere, which don't require additional drivers on your Mac. Using Printer Driver Color Management in Adobe ® Photoshop ® The examples in the instructions below show the Epson Stylus Pro 7880 printer, but you’ll see your printer name instead. Be sure to have an image/print job open in Adobe Photoshop and ready to print before beginning with the steps below. Adobe Color Printer Utility is developed by Adobe Systems Inc. And is used by 31 users of Mac Informer. The most popular version of this product among our users. Adobe Color Printer Utility is developed by Adobe Systems Inc. And is used by 31 users of Mac Informer. The most popular version of this product among our users is 1.0. The product will soon be reviewed by our informers.
Solving the problem of printing with no color management
Several months ago I posted an article about the problem of trying to print without color management with Epson printers, Adobe Photoshop and Apple computers. The original articlecan be found here.
Printing without color management is critical for anyone that needs to print targets for profiling. In the article, I posted a workaround to the problem. Most of us have had to live with this less than ideal situation for a while.
Adobe to The Rescue
Since I wrote the article, I have been in touch with the three manufacturers mentioned above.
It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that the option of printing with no color management is blatantly absent from the print dialog in Photoshop CS5. This was the first hint that something was afoot.
In the last few months, I have been testing the beta version of the newAdobe Color Printer Utility. The sole purpose of this new piece of software is to be able to print without color management. The software is obviously very simple. All you do is navigate to the file you want to print and then ask the application to print it. No color management, no changes, it simply prints the file “as is”.
This is exactly, precisely what those who make their own profiles have been asking for.
I can attest to the fact tat the software works as advertised. I have printed a number of targets and they measure as they should.
Adobe Printer Free Download
Adobe should be commended for finally solving this problem, and also for offering this application as a free download.
Adobe Color Printer Utility Download Mac Download
I was asked by Adobe to keep the existence of this application in strict confidence until the final version was released for download on their site. The software was released earlier today. Here is a link to the download.
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December, 2010