colour check

Dave what I did with my printer and paper is bought my paper from paper spectrum and asked for a icc and they emailed it to me then I printed it out and sent it back to them in the post (hard copy) they then sent me the corrected icc for me to install this was all free.

James

I also did this with ink express ciss (they supplied a icc disc and i phoned them up to install really good service)

edit printer added Epson R1800 and R285

I'm not sure you can use printer profiles with Elements. Certainly with E6 you can't.
You may have a clash between Elements and the printer though - each trying to manage the printing. Set Elements up to allow the printer to manage the printing if you haven't already.

sorry I use Photoshop cs3

But when I rand ink express they where very helpful and willing to help on the phone and sent me emails

here is a linkhope it helps you.

James

I also use Photoshop.

The clashing is true and therefore you need to select ICM option in the printer drivers that way the printer is obedient to the software.

I don't know if you can select profiles in elements but since it's quite a serious program I think you can though.
When you say print there should come a window up with the options with what you can do, it should be there if you can do it.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Please excuse me whilst I digest all the information and try some experiments.

I will be back

Dave

Well you can select printer profile in elements 7

Go to Print Preview probably under File.
It will pop up this window.

[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/pse6725.jpg[/IMG]

Set the red arrow on Photoshop Elements manage colors
Blue arrow on the paper you're using.
And if you click on the green you should get this window (or if you press on your printer and ask for his properties)
Set the printer like this




(you might want to click on border less in the last window)

Click on okay and it should bring you back to the Print Preview window and check if the red arrow is still set on photoshop and the blue one on the correct paper you're using.

If all is correct it should now print with the ICC profile.

Please note I don't have photoshop elements or a Epson printer so don't hang me if I got it wrong.

ok guys, Thanks for the great response.

Stefan , as always you provided excellent support if you were closer a number of locally brewed beers would be in order.

I have worked my way through all the information, carefully reading Stefans link and the above photoshop printing technique (this is actually in the editing suite and not in the organiser)

THE RESULT IS failure

I have copied the same picture to a memory stick and printed directly from that. The picture still came out with a purple cast.

So now I have to contact Epson I think to see what they have to say...(not much given the price of printers i bet) or just dump the printer and get another...

For sale one epson printer with purple cast...any offers???


Thanks again evryone

Dave

My Epson gives a purple cast when the heads need cleaning - run the cleaning utility on the printer and try it again.

Thanks Hefty. I cleaned the heads three times as it suggested in the manual when you have aprint quality problem.

Once again purple cast when printing either direct from memory tick or from photoshop .



Dave

Dave, I printed your pic off yesterday on my Epson 1400 and got a slight purple cast, though it display perfectly on my monitor.

I've not noticed any problem with any other of my prints so maybe its something peculiar to this one image, anyway I have several of the same bird taken at the same time so I'm going to have a go at printing one of those and see it I have the same problem.

Back again, just printed off a similar pic, not the same bird but very similar, and taken around the same time as yours, I'm assuming its one from Thorp Perrow?, the whites and colours are perfect, yours looks muddy in comparison.

I reckon either your file has a cast thats not showing up when dispalyed on a monitor, either from the camera or from any adjustment you may have made afterwards.

Do you have the original file intact? can you email me it and let me see how it prints out.

I bought a new printer recently and was disappointed to notice a magenta cast particularly on mono prints. It was brought about by viewing in tungsten light, in daylight they are perfect. Just a thought.

I've read some where that:-

they say mono prints will always have a colour cast because it prints with colour to get the tones

James

I wasn't using the colour ink

Dave, you can download this colour reference picture here: linkIf you make a print of it you will know if the printer is at fault.

But were you using coloured paper - i.e. paper meant for coloured prints? That can give a colour cast to mono prints.