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Feb 10, 2009 06:19 |  #1

Does anybody use this feature on their Epson printer driver when printing from Lightroom or Photoshop. I recently purchased the R1900 but found that I have to disable this feature (as with all printer color management) when printing from ICC profiles within Lightroom to get good results. Is there any way to use this feature when printing from Lightroom or Photoshop? It is supposed to help tweak skin color, overall tone, contrast, etc.? I thought I could select "Managed by Printer" in the Lightroom color management box, and then turn on "Photo Enhance" on the printer driver. However, the picture color is way off. Any advice? Is this feature even worth turning on? Thanks in advance.


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Feb 10, 2009 08:25 |  #2

If you are printing from LR or PS you are evidently doing some processing, otherwise you could just print by right-clicking on the file in Windows Explorer. It seems to me that processing means that YOU "tweak skin color, overall tone, contrast, etc.," until you get it to what YOU want. So why go and change that by overriding it with the canned edits preset by some anonymous software designer who probably is no wiser than you and certainly has never seen your photograph?


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Feb 10, 2009 08:30 |  #3

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There is a similar option for the Canon printers and I personally find its useless. If doing any editing to the photo don't you want to see what it will look like before you print? ??? I do... ???


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Feb 10, 2009 08:49 as a reply to  @ John_B's post |  #4

My cheap little Epson Picturemate printer has a similar "Auto Correct" feature. Sometimes it improves a picture (i.e. skin color, tone) that I thought was already good to begin with (I don't have the best eye when it comes to skin color correction). I guess I just want to know if I can use this feature at all when printing with Lightroom to just give it a try.


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