Awful Color on Epson 2200 after Snow Leopard Upgrade

I'm an experience photographer and printer who has done extensive printing on the Epson 2200 under previous versions of the OS using CS4. As a beta tester for Snow Leopard I had used it extensively on another machine before the release, so I did not hesitate to upgrade my photography production computer as soon as it was available this past weekend.

The problem I now have is that print colors are all wrong - very greenish (bluish?), which is typically a symptom that nothing is managing the printing out of PS. (Reddish/purplish prints are often a symptom that color is being managed by both PS and the printer's own software.) I have changed nothing else in my workflow or printing process besides doing the upgrade - I have a solid workflow process that works consistently and accurately, or should I say it DID work so until the upgrade.

I have installed the updated 2200 drivers from the Epson web site. I have removed and re-added the printer in the preferences panel. Still no joy.

Help? Advice? Anything to try that I haven't thought of yet?

Thanks in advance,

Dan

iMac 24" (aluminum), Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Aug 31, 2009 9:13 PM

154 replies

Feb 24, 2010 12:55 PM in response to danmitchell

How does one install 8.12? My os 10.6.2 keeps substituting 8.17.

Called Epson. Their rep asked me what printer driver the printer defaulted to and it appears to be 8.17. He said that 10.6 prevents the installing or use of the Epson driver for the 2200 (8.12) and that appears to be a common problem. He stated that some of the difference between the 2 drivers is the isssue of who gets the call for supplies when you run low on ink. The Apple driver defaults to the Apple store while the epson driver reverts to Epson. Meanwhile, as this squabbling goes on the customer gets screwed because he cannot use his printer unless he goes back to using OS 10.5!

Apr 10, 2010 1:07 PM in response to Dr.Feelgood

If anyone with a 2100 is reading this, this is how I solved the problem.
There are Epson 2200 drivers for 10.6, but no 2100. Even though they are effectively the same printer, Snow won't recognise the 2200 icc profiles with a 2100 printer.
So, how I got round this was to firstly install the 2100 drivers (3.09) to get the icc paper profiles in, and then install the 2200 drivers (8.12) for 10.6.
Then in Print & Fax, add a 2nd printer (as the 2100 is immediately recognised and added) by clicking on the 2100 USB, but selecting the 2200 drivers and renaming it as 2100/2200.
Now, printing in PS in my normal way, i.e. PS manages colour and paper profile - works perfectly! No more dark and greenish tints.

Paul-ny

Level 1

23 points

Apr 30, 2010 9:14 AM in response to Bazzography

I'm answering almost five months late, but I found this post after discovering the exact same thing, that my plain paper matte black profile was missing from Library/ColorSync/Profiles, and I was very confused. So thank you for your post of December! I was also unaware that Spotlight doesn't search in Library, so I found that I couldn't search for that profile.

I didn't know what to attribute it to, but my plain paper profile created with Spyder2, which I haven't used since I got a new laptop with Snow Leopard, has gone crazy and gives horrendous results. Somehow I printed a test with standard PK profile, and then tried again and got refused because of ink-set mismatch. That's when I saw that my standard MK profile was gone. This is just to say thank you, I'm going to try the new-found standard matte profile and then probably do another one with Spyder.

Apr 30, 2010 9:51 AM in response to Paul-ny

I brought this up to Epson management back then and got a reply that they were investigating this all the way to their engineers in Japan, but never did hear back after that.

It doesn't seem to be a strictly Epson thing as I had the same missing profile issue with profiles that came with QuadTone RIP (which, by the way, is great software if you do black & white with Epson printers). As I mentioned back then, the QuadTone RIP folks told me Snow Leopard is much more strict in the way it handles profiles. Of course, you'd think Epson would have tested that before releasing the new driver...

If Epson ever does respond with a definitive answer (HA!) I will post it here.

PS... Yes, I wish Spotlight would stop treating us like dummies and let us search EVERYWHERE if we so choose!!

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Awful Color on Epson 2200 after Snow Leopard Upgrade