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Apr 24, 2007 07:12 |  #1

i have struggled for days now to get my printer to work, and finally after installing gutenprint, it works, however im devastated as before my images from a pc and this printer were awesome, now from my mac and the same printer i get nothing but ****ty pictures, absolutely appaling....help.....

anyone knows what i have to do to get my images quality back when printing again? btw on screen they look like they should be.

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Apr 24, 2007 07:13 |  #2

sorry forget to ,memtion that i printed from both Iphoto and aperture


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Apr 25, 2007 11:17 as a reply to  @ macobee's post |  #3

wow am i all alone with this problem?


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Apr 25, 2007 11:31 |  #4

Photographer I work for has another Epson (Don't know the types: 2 A3 printers). They both were 'plug and print'....

What was so hard to get the printer to work in the first place?

How is your color management set up? Any chance you're letting both printer and software determine colors (or neither)?


Did a yahoo on 'Gutenprint' and came across a FaQ:

From the FAQ wrote:
"Q: I selected the right printer and the quality is lousy

A: Try selecting a different resolution or quality setting. Especially lower resolutions have a problem putting enough ink on paper. Also, use Photo mode. If you find settings that do not work at all (you get garbage or no output, but other settings work), report these as bugs. High resolutions should produce a similar (but smoother) result than medium resolutions. Resolutions under a certain printer dependent figure are seen as draft-only - for example lower than 360 DPI on Epsons with standard paper or lower than 300 DPI on HP.

Also make sure that you have the right kind of paper selected. Selecting plain paper when you're printing on high quality photo paper is certain to result in a light, grainy image. Selecting photo paper when you're printing on plain paper will result in a dark, muddy image that bleeds through the paper. There are differences between different kinds of paper; you may need to tweak the density and color settings slightly.

In addition, certain printers don't work well on certain kinds of paper. Epson printers work well on Epson papers, but don't work well on many third party papers (particularly the high quality photo papers made by other vendors). This isn't a conspiracy to lock you into their paper, it's because they've formulated the paper and ink to work well together."

Sounds like not too much color management is going on?


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Apr 25, 2007 20:18 |  #5

macobee wrote in post #3095051 (external link)
sorry forget to ,memtion that i printed from both Iphoto and aperture

Printing from Aperture can take some work and from iPhoto there's one thing you ought to select in the print driver - In the color management area of the driver select ColorSync


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Apr 30, 2007 17:52 |  #6

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Apr 30, 2007 18:52 |  #7

I have a powerbook and an R1800 and have had no problems at all




  
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