Adobe Photoshop 7.0 >>> Epson R2400 Printing Issues

Does anyone know what would cause colors to be wrong (in my case it's a sickly green color cast) when printing through Adobe Photoshop 7.0, yet printing with the exact same printer driver settings via Adobe Lightroom 2.3 is fine?

I know it has to be a configuration within Photoshop 7.0 itself because like I said, I have the exact same printer driver settings used in both softwares and I'm using the exact same image(s) and inks and papers. I also have no issues when I import the conversions that were edited in Photoshop back into Lightroom and print from there, so I don't think it's a color profile issue.

Any thoughts?

I'll run through the settings I use for PS7 with an R2880.:

In PS7:

Colour settings:

RGB Colour Space: I use aRGB, but sRGB works fine.
ignore other working spaces.
colour management policies: Preserve embedded profiles
activate all profile mismatch and missing profile dialogues
either Perceptual or Relative Colormetric
black point compensation and dither selected.

Print with Preview

Document: I use aRGB
Profile: whatever paper you are planning on printing.

Now is where you and I may part company, because the printer drivers may be laid out differently.

R2880 Printer driver:

Media: Whatever you chose in the colour settings in PS7
Print Quality: Max quality.
Mode: Custom > Off, No Colour Adjustment) *note: PS7 does this in my workflow)
Second note: If the driver offers High Speed, Edge Smoothing or Finest Detail at any stage, turn them off.

I know theres nothing unusual in what I've written above, but it is different to Epsons suggested settings in the manual. I went back to the above routine used sucessfully on a previous printer and it works again on the R2880.

I had color management set to "convert to sRGB" but I always use sRGB anyway so I don't think that's an issue. I still changed it to preserve to give it a try.

What engine do you have selected under Conversion options? I'm set to Adobe (ACE) Would that matter?

Sorry, I missed that bit without realising. Yes, same as you Adobe (ACE).

I think you nailed my problem. In the "Print Preview" dialog, my Print Space profile was set to the working color space rather than the paper. I hadn't had that dialog open in ages so forgot it was even there. One of those stupid little things...

We all do it. My trouble is I do it repeatedly!

Glad it's sorted.

Thanks Rich. I thought my inks were bad since I hardly ever use it, but then I decided to run one via Lightroom and it was fine. I was going to get a cleaning kit and a whole new set of inks to start over, but now I don't have to. You saved me some cash.