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EPSON Stylus Pro 7600/9600
How to use Custom RGB ICC Profiles with the
Standard Epson Photographic Printer Driver
A Photographic Workflow with Adobe Photoshop 7
EPSON America, Inc. © 2002, Version 1.0E
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Forward This document is to help assist novice level photographers who are trying to produce the best quality color and black and white photographic prints on the EPSON Stylus Pro 7600 or 9600 printers using UltraChrome Inks. However, the workflow described in this document can be applied to any printer. Although, you can simply use the built-in color management system within the standard Epson printer driver, using the power of the ICC profile format, this document will teach you a
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How to use an ICC profile with the Epson driver STEP 1: Installing Your RGB ICC Profile & Configuring Adobe Photoshop 7 To use any RGB ICC profile with the EPSON Stylus Pro 7600 or 9600 driver, you must first place them in the standard place for profiles. Regardless if your using a Macintosh or Windows computer, you will get great results. Here is where you must copy the .icc files: Operating System ICC File Location Mac OS 9.2.2 System Folder / ColorSync Profiles Mac OS X System
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STEP 2 : Opening Your Image File Next, open your image file and choose the proper conversion option. If your image file already contains a profile that matches the Color Settings you’ve selected in Step 1 or if your image file is in LAB space, then the image will come right up. If not, then Photoshop will display this dialog: What color space should I calibrate my monitor to? The answer to this question will vary, but I prefer to calibrate all my Macintosh and Windows monitors to 2.2
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STEP 3: Setting Your Page Setup & Getting Ready to Print Next, choose “Print with Preview...” from the file menu. Notice the document dimensions, then click the “Page Setup...” button and set the proper page size and options and click “OK”. Back in the “Print with Preview” dialog, you can visually confirm that your image will fit on the printed page, then check the “Show More Options” check box, and choose “Color Management”. Your dialog box should now look something like this: After verify
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Under “Print Space:” the “Intent:” selection should be set to either Perceptual or Relative Colorimetric depending upon your image file. As discussed, Black Point Compensation ‘on’ or ‘off’ makes no difference when printing using the Perceptual rendering intent, but it is needed for Relative Colorimetric. So turn it ‘on’ and forget about it. Are your ICC profiles showing up in the profile pull down menu? Make sure you double check the profile name when searching for your ICC
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STEP 4 : Setting Up Your Printer Driver Settings and Printing Your Image! Take note of the Print Space Profile selection within the “Print with Preview” dialog box then click the “Print” button. The following dialog box will appear: Epson Print Dialog When the Epson print dialog appears, click on the “Custom” radio button then the “Advanced...” button and carefully create and save a new driver setup for that particular RGB ICC profile. Here is an example Advanced Settings Dialog screen setup
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