Profiles with Epson 1280

Hi, I just got my new Epson 1280 printer. Some really frustrating
things are happening. First of all, I noticed that the 1280 had no
premium luster profile. I did download one, but even still there is no
media setting to go along with it. I know that it reccomends premium
glossy, but still. The problem I'm having are with the profiles.
Whenever I switch over to proof setup and choose the profile, the
image gets drastically changed. It may sometimes be a slight color
shift, but in other images, it does this sort of like solarized effect
in the shadow areas and sometimes looks like it blows out little areas
in the highlights. Then the print ends up looking like crap. Can
someone help?

 

My Epson 1270 would never print images that matched my
monitor images. Eventually I created a new print mode that finally
gave me what I wanted. I selected pint, then properties, mode,
custom, advanced and changed the gamma, brightness, contrast, etc.
and saved it as a new mode file.
Then made a small test print and repeated the whole process over
and over until I had exactly what I wanted. It was a lot of effort,
but gave me the control I needed and I have used it for years.
If you can't find what you need you might want to try this yourself.
Gene http://www.photoprojects.net

 

I have a mac, so I don't know if that will work. It just seems really
odd that the Epson profiles are doing this. I worked with the 2200's
at school and never had a problem. I'm wondering if it's a setting. It
seems like a $450 printer shouldn't be doing this.

 

Epson drivers for the Mac X are not that good, use CUPS and gimp print and
you will have excellent prints.
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what is CUPS and gimp print?

Kelly

 

CUPS is Common Unit Printing System (http://www.cups.org/). Gimp-print is the
lower level driver that CUPS uses (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/). Here
is a page that describes using Gimp-print on the Macintosh computer:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3.

I don't have a Macintosh system, but I use CUPS on my Linux system. Since I
use HP printers, I tend to use hpijs drivers instead of gimp-print.