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09/06/2010 05:41:29 PM · #1 |
| I just purchased a Macbook pro and got a free Epson Stylus NX420 printer. Granted this is not a top end product, but it should print relatively well. However, my prints are uncharacteristically dark (very dark). I went into Color Settings to install the correct profile, but CS4 rejected it with the warning statement "Could not load the CMYK working space because the profile is not a valid CMYK working space profile". What do I do now? |
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09/06/2010 05:55:14 PM · #2 |
What exactly are you doing? What steps, what choices are you making etc?
The profile for the printing is most likely an RGB profile, not a CMYK profile.
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09/06/2010 06:35:40 PM · #3 |
First, I am not working with the Mac. I am using my desktop HP Pavilion.
I am opening a NEF (Nikon) file in Camera Raw and, after editing in CS4, printing it on the Epson. It's printing extremly (unusably) dark. I've also had the same (dark) results using Lightroom. I've attempted to go into Color Settings to change the printer profile from "U.S. Web Coated (SWOP)v2" to match the one I found in the printer's properties box "Epson IJ Printer 07" - to see if that would fix the darkness, but to no avail. |
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09/06/2010 07:06:09 PM · #4 |
There is a colour management step I think you're missing. In PS, when you go to print you can do one of two things:
1) set the colour to be managed by the printer and set the print driver colour profile to that which matches the paper and ink you are using in the printer;
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2) set the colour to be managed by PS and set the print profile in the colour management window and turning off colour management in the printer driver software.
Screen shots of the colour management window from CS4 would be helpful to determine exactly where your settings are incorrect.
These are same steps regardless of MAC or PC.
From the LR print module:
Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom in the right hand panel. That's where the colour management selections are. If you choose 'manage by printer' be sure to turn colour management on in the printer driver. If you select the profile for the paper/ink your are using in the printer, be sure to turn colour management off in the printer driver.
Message edited by author 2010-09-06 19:12:35.
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09/06/2010 07:25:24 PM · #5 |
You're right. I was missing that step. What a fantastic difference. Thanks so much.
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09/06/2010 07:50:05 PM · #6 |
I'm glad you got everything working for you.
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