Magenta cast when printing from any app in Mountain Lion

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Magenta cast when printing from any app in Mountain Lion

I get a serious magenta cast when printing from any application using my Epson R3000 inkjet. I am aware of the double profile issue. For example in Photoshop I let it do the color management. ML automatically turns off printer color management. My monitor is calibrated with Xrite Color Munki. I did not have this issue before upgrading to ML 8.2. Is there a driver issue?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Lightroom 4.2, Photoshop 5.1

Posted on Oct 9, 2012 10:09 AM

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Oct 9, 2012 11:42 AM in response to Frederic123

In System Preferences->Monitors->color is the correct

color profile set?

Do you you have the correct profile for the printer

selected in Photoshop?

Also, are you using Proof Setup in Views?

Need to ask since sometimes a person can stare at

something too long and think it is correct (done it myself often).

It may not be a driver but an issue with color profiles.

It is possible one or more of the color profiles may be corrupted.

Go to Utilities->ColorSync Utility select and run Profile First Aid.

See if problems found in profiles.

Using PS CS6 myself and have not seen any such issues with

color and 10.8.2.

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Oct 9, 2012 12:21 PM in response to woodmeister50

Thanks for your reply. Everything is correct: the display profile is that I've calibrated, the correct profile is selected in Pshop, proof setup in views and I've run the colorsync facility. The problem is not unique to Pshop or Lightroom but across all apps that permit printing. I'm thinking it's a profile issue but am unable to isolate the problem. I print through the Epson and turn off the colorsync profile and vice versa. In each case the magenta cast either stays the same or worsens. Frankly I'm at my wit's end to solve the problem.

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