Color management issue with ET8550 please help

[lev]

Guys,

I have third party photo papers until I get some genuine Epson photo papers so there is no proper paper profile to choose from.

When I'm printing on glossy paper using any of these profiles for glossy papers like Photo Glossy or Premium Glossy - prints are coming out reddish, but colors are more or less correct when I'm choosing Standard profile from this list. Does anybody know why this may happen? Do I need to download some, other "generic" profile for glossy papers?

EPSON ET-8550 L8180 Series Photo Glossy (Too much reds):

EPSON ET-8550 L8180 Series Standard (Almost exact color match with monitor):

Color management science is just another world :/

Thanks

 

[thebestcpu]

Hi Lev
I am not familiar with you particular Epson printer. I have the Epson SC P900
There are two important settings that may be influencing your result.
1) You need to set an Paper ICC profile which maps your editing color space color numbers into the color numbers of the printer profile (space)

2) The other is the paper type (which is what I think you were showing in your posted images). That is important too as it gives basic information on what and how much ink to put down for various types of paper. This is separate from the ICC profile.

You did not mention how you are printing yet let me show you how I do it in Photoshop. First here is the printer panel:

Note that I have it set for Photoshop to Manage Colors and also have included the paper color profile being for Ultra Premium Photo Paper.
Then, I go to the print settings near the top of the Print Panel and click on that for printer settings to adjust:

Lots of settings to consider yet the one of importance si the "Printer Settings" as shown in the next image:

From there, I would choose Ultra Premium Photo Paper Luster. Note that there often is not a one-to-one matching of ICC paper profiles to the Paper Choice in the printer settings. Epson says which one to choose on the box of paper when it is purchased.

When not using Epson papers, you do your best by picking something close in the Epson listings.
I suspect if you do that, you will not have color management as ideal if you were using Epson papers (or other companies that provide ICC profiles with their papers), yet you should get more consistent results.

This may not answer all your questions, but I hope you can try this and see if it helps.
You can always come back and ask more questions, of course

One alternative that may be simpler long term is to purchase the Qimage software, which is a little easier interface for printer settings than printer drivers, as I showed above.

John Wheeler