Digital BW, The Print

OS X is continually trying to "do stuff for you" which often means trouble for
those of us who want to do our own thing.

I don't ordinarily use a the Epson driver nor CS5 for printing but I decided to
look at this.   What I see is that if you pick "Photoshop Manages Color" a number
of selections are pre-done and grayed out when you get to the Print dialogs.

To get to the Color Controls in the Epson driver you need to:
1) in PS Preview, select Printer Manages Color
in Print dialog:
2) in Color Matching pane, select Epson Color Controls
3) in Print Settings, select Color Settings: Epson Standard sRGB
  ( you can also pick Adobe RGB -- don't know if it makes a difference)

now you can go to Advanced Color Settings and get the sliders.
I'd make use of the Presets to save all these settings for next time.

I don't know for sure if all this produces identical results as before but at least
one should be able to tweak things this way.   The Adobe RGB vs sRGB issue
is something that needs experimentation.  OS X uses sRGB as a default in
a lot of cases.

Roy


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <roark.paul@...> wrote:
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> Photoshop CS5 and apparently the newest Mac OS (I'm a Windows user) seem to have eliminated the ability to use the Epson 1400 driver's "Color Controls" mode of printing.  Even when I set that in the CS5 print preview, the system resets the driver to "No Color Adjustment." 
> 
> Is there a way to keep the Color Controls driver option available with these new (dumbed down?) programs?
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>