Epson 3880 used with PhotoshopCS5 and icc Profiles of Paper
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:52 pm
HI There,
I am using a trial version of PrintFab to overcome the length limitation of 37 inches in the Epson 3880 printer I just bought. I have been printing both at home and on the Epson 9800 & 11800 printers at school using Photoshop and downloaded icc profiles for Canson Rag Photographique and Breathing Color's Lyve canvas from the paper manufacturers. The manual is hard to follow with this method. I finally managed to import a few icc profiles into the "colorspace" tab, but was really unsure if this was the correct place for them. My test print with the colorspace toggled to my icc profile was much better than the test print with the RGB colorspace(way too saturated colors). Both tests were done using Photoshop: Photoshop managing colors, printer profile was the icc profile of the paper/printer, rendering intent was perceptual with black point compensation checked. In the PrintFab Settings I set the intent; Perceptual, the mode: RGB, and the colorspace: with the paper icc profile. Otherwise, I left all settings in the PrintFab color management in the default positions.
Is this the correct way to do it?
Other options seem to be: change PrintFab settings intent to (No Correction), leave mode (RGB) and leave the colorspace with the (icc paper profile).
Or perhaps change the colorspace to (Adobe RGB).
I am using a trial version of PrintFab to overcome the length limitation of 37 inches in the Epson 3880 printer I just bought. I have been printing both at home and on the Epson 9800 & 11800 printers at school using Photoshop and downloaded icc profiles for Canson Rag Photographique and Breathing Color's Lyve canvas from the paper manufacturers. The manual is hard to follow with this method. I finally managed to import a few icc profiles into the "colorspace" tab, but was really unsure if this was the correct place for them. My test print with the colorspace toggled to my icc profile was much better than the test print with the RGB colorspace(way too saturated colors). Both tests were done using Photoshop: Photoshop managing colors, printer profile was the icc profile of the paper/printer, rendering intent was perceptual with black point compensation checked. In the PrintFab Settings I set the intent; Perceptual, the mode: RGB, and the colorspace: with the paper icc profile. Otherwise, I left all settings in the PrintFab color management in the default positions.
Is this the correct way to do it?
Other options seem to be: change PrintFab settings intent to (No Correction), leave mode (RGB) and leave the colorspace with the (icc paper profile).
Or perhaps change the colorspace to (Adobe RGB).