… at least for me. As soon as I went from PS CS2 to CS3, my prints came out 1.5 or 2 stops too dark. Drove me nutz.<\/p>\n
Search on the web, and I see I’m hardly alone. Call Epson, and they admit it… but have been working on a fix for nearly a year now. Sigh.<\/p>\n
Then tonight, I’m determined to find it, and I start mucking about. One of the things I did was turn on print preview, with my chosen paper profile. And on a whim, I clicked on “Preserve RGB numbers” and saw exactly what the printouts look like: way too dark. A clue!<\/p>\n
Off to Adobe help, where I find that the definition of “Preserve RGB numbers” is ” Simulates how the colors will appear without being converted to the color space of the output device. “<\/p>\n
Hmmm… is it possible that the output is not be converted to the printer’s color space for some reason?<\/p>\n
If so why, and what can be done about it to fix it?<\/p>\n
Off to look at my profiles… to discover that I have two full sets of Epson 3800 profiles… one at \/Library\/ColorSync\/Profiles and another at \/Library\/Printers\/EPSON\/InkjetPrinter\/ICCProfiles\/Pro38.profiles.<\/p>\n
Hmmm… do I have a conflict here? Should not be, but on a whim, I delete the batch of profiles at \/Library\/ColorSync\/Profiles, and head back over to PS to see how thing work now.<\/p>\n
And the result is… “things work now!”<\/p>\n
No more excessively dark prints.<\/p>\n
Is this the reason that it was so hard to find? Double profiles? Some had them and some didn’t? (The ones at \/Library\/Printers\/EPSON\/InkjetPrinter\/ICCProfiles\/Pro38.profiles are, in fact, inside that package, so not very obvious.)<\/p>\n
Did I find it, or were the gods just smiling on me? Taking pity?<\/p>\n
See if that is your circumstance; see if that fixes it for you.<\/p>\n
Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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