The 2400 will print on premium luster (along with velvet fine art, my favorite Epson paper) or premium semigloss with no bronzing. You might see a bit of bronzing on premium glossy. Paul On Mar 24, 2007, at 3:54 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
> So i played around again to day. Rainy and s>>>ty so what better > thing to do.:-) > > Snag still when setting the epson profiles, then i realized i had not > unzipped the profiles i downloaded during installation, they were > still on the desktop. > > All i was getting was epson rgb etc. > > Using those and finally fiquring out i needed to click the icm button > to get to the colour off switch, i printed out a fifth test picture. > > I am using ther glossy papaer, but there is no profile for the plain > papaer so i used premglos something. > > Pretty close. I used a diffrent picture, non horse, with trees and > bricks and wood doors. The print was very close to the monitor. > > I'll get some prem gloss and try again. > > Once i;m happy i can get good resuts, i'll inform my past and future > clients, i have moved into the Epson zone for prints > > Thanks for all the help. > > I'll have new ?;s i'm sure when i load the Mac. > > Dave > > On 3/22/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Since I had this hanging about, I figured I'd repost it. >> ---- >> >> Photoshop CS2 - Epson R2400 color managed workflow on Mac OS X >> (Windows interface details are slightly different for Page Setup and >> Print dialogs, but the methodology is identical.) >> >> First calibrate the monitor and set up Photoshop CS2's color >> settings: >> >> Using the Eye One Display 2 and iMatch software, I calibrate my >> monitor to 140 luminance, 5500K white point and gamma 1.8. Other >> settings work as well, but these give me a monitor appearance that >> looks like what I want. >> >> Then, in the Adobe Photoshop CS2 'Edit->Color Settings...' dialog, >> use the "North American Prepress 2" set as a baseline. Customize that >> to use ProPhoto RGB for color and set the policies to convert >> embedded profiles to the working colorspace. >> >> Whenever you open an image file, either convert any embedded profile >> to the working colorspace or assign the working colorspace. ProPhoto >> RGB is bigger than all the other colorspaces so you can do this with >> zero loss. >> >> Then work on your image. >> >> Once image adjustment is completed, use "Print with Preview" to setup >> the print processing. In the dialog, be sure to press the "More >> Options" button to reach the extended toolset, and pick the Color >> Management tools from the popup menu. In the Options section, set >> Color Handling to "Let Photoshop Determine Colors", pick the profile >> for your printer and the Epson paper you're using, set Rendering >> Intent to "Relative Colormetric" and leave Black Point Compensation >> checked. Click the Page Setup dialog and set the printer type and >> page size, orientation. Use the preview window and sizing to fit the >> picture to the paper per your desires. >> >> Once you've done that, click the Print button. This takes you out of >> Photoshop's control and into the control of the printer driver. In >> the Epson printer driver, first go to the Print Settings panel and >> select the media type (paper type), Advanced Color mode, and Best >> Photo quality. The next panel to look at is the Color Management >> panel: here you want to set color management to "OFF" (remember that >> you told Photoshop that it was going to do the color management). >> Once done with that, press the Print button. >> >> Assuming that your monitor calibration is good and the printer-ink- >> paper profile is good, you should get a print that looks very much >> like what you see on the screen. With the R2400, the profiles for >> Epson Enhanced Matte, Epson Premium Glossy, Epson Premium Luster, and >> Epson Velvet Fine Art are very very good. >> >> Godfrey >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > -- > Equine Photography > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > Ontario Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
