Printing on the Epson 2200
Last night I started printing my final images for the upcoming Restart show at Northwest Worklofts and tried to do some experiments using the Epson 2200 ICM profiles. Specifically I set the source space to be my document’s Nikon sRGB space(LS-4000 scanner) and the print space to the Epson 2200 Semigloss_PK profile using both Relative and Perceptual conversions. Unfortunately in all cases I ended up with a gigantic color shift where all the whites in the image went to pink. I soft-proofed the image using the same printer profile and it showed only a slight color shift, actually more of a loss of brightness than a color shift, but nothing like this pink tone. I should note that I tried changing the printer driver settings betwen ICM, sRGB, None and Custom with ColorControls on, all enhancements off, all of which produced the exact same output. So I’m definitely doing something wrong in Photoshop. Switching back to a paper space of “Same as source.” still produces wonderful images which I’ll use for my finals, but I’d really like to get my soft-proofing all worked out for better WYSIWYG editing.
So a question goes out to anyone using Photoshop 7 and specific printer+paper profiles, what settings are you using to get true on-screen proofing that matches your printed output? Better yet, what books can you recommend on Photoshop 7 printing?
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