Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Trying to print a High Quality Target (225 patches on one sheet) for my Epson 3800.  I do my 
Page Setup and then go to Print Target and select Print Settings from the pull down menu 
then go to media type.  When I select Premium Semigloss Photo Paper a window pops up and 
tells me to select a file to delete from the popup below, click finished when you are done 
deleting files.  I have removed all of the files and still get the delete message when choosing 
the Semigloss media setting.

Using PrintFix Pro v2.0, Mac w/OSX 10.4

I have printed targets and profiled my Epson 4000 and 7600 and have had no problems with 
any media settings.

Any suggestions?

Tom

From: tpaul@...
To: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 9:03 AM
Subject: [colorvision_group] Problem printing target - media setting

>>Trying to print a High Quality Target (225 patches on one sheet) for 
my Epson
3800.  I do my
Page Setup and then go to Print Target and select Print Settings from 
the pull
down menu
then go to media type.  When I select Premium Semigloss Photo Paper a 
window
pops up and
tells me to select a file to delete from the popup below, click 
finished when
you are done
deleting files.

Using PrintFix Pro v2.0, Mac w/OSX 10.4

I have printed targets and profiled my Epson 4000 and 7600 and have had 
no
problems with
any media settings.


Yes, this is a known bug with... not exactly our software, but one of 
the tools we use building our software. It shows up only with a few of 
the newest pro Epson drivers on the Mac. Until we are given a fix for 
this, the work around is easy enough:

Go to Photoshop, trigger the print dialog, and configure your printer 
settings as desired. Save these as a driver set, and name 
appropriately. Now select that set from PrintFIX PRO for printing, 
instead of attempting to change the advanced driver settings directly 
 from there. Since most people only use a few papers, and at consistant 
settings, this isn't much of a problem, unless you are trying to test a 
series of media settings one after another to determine the optimal one 
for a given paper. We've only had a couple reports of this issue 
occurring, so there are probably other factors involved in triggering 
it.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Division
DataColor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com

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>Trying to print a High Quality Target (225 patches on one sheet) for my Epson 3800. I do my
>Page Setup and then go to Print Target and select Print Settings from the pull down menu
>then go to media type. When I select Premium Semigloss Photo Paper a window pops up and
>tells me to select a file to delete from the popup below, click finished when you are done
>deleting files. I have removed all of the files and still get the delete message when choosing
>the Semigloss media setting.
>
>Using PrintFix Pro v2.0, Mac w/OSX 10.4
>
>I have printed targets and profiled my Epson 4000 and 7600 and have had no problems with
>any media settings.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Tom

Yes, there's a bug somewhere between PFP, large format Epson drivers and
OSX 10.4.8 that has affected a small number of people (me, included).

(The bug is that, for some reason, making changes to popups and controls
in some of the large format Epson drivers is causing the commands that
are generated to "leak through" the OSX print dialog and they're ending
up in PFP itself, which is running beneath the OSX print dialog and shouldn't
be seeing any of this.)

There isn't a fix yet, but there is a workaround:

Go into an application where this doesn't happen (as in, anything other
than PFP); set up your 3800 driver the way that you want; and save the config
into a named preset in the OSX printer dialog.

Then, in PFP, use the preset to switch all of the settings for you. This
will work properly.


Best regards,

-- 
David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision

David,

Followed yours and C.Davids advice, generated a preset in Photoshop and still could not 
get it to work.  Shut everything down and went to lunch... just tried it again and it works 
fine per you suggestion.  Thanks guys for your help.

Tom



--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, David Miller <dm2363@...> wrote:
>
> >Trying to print a High Quality Target (225 patches on one sheet) for my Epson 3800. I 
do my
> >Page Setup and then go to Print Target and select Print Settings from the pull down 
menu
> >then go to media type. When I select Premium Semigloss Photo Paper a window pops 
up and
> >tells me to select a file to delete from the popup below, click finished when you are 
done
> >deleting files. I have removed all of the files and still get the delete message when 
choosing
> >the Semigloss media setting.
> >
> >Using PrintFix Pro v2.0, Mac w/OSX 10.4
> >
> >I have printed targets and profiled my Epson 4000 and 7600 and have had no 
problems with

> >any media settings.
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >Tom
> 
> Yes, there's a bug somewhere between PFP, large format Epson drivers and
> OSX 10.4.8 that has affected a small number of people (me, included).
> 
> (The bug is that, for some reason, making changes to popups and controls
> in some of the large format Epson drivers is causing the commands that
> are generated to "leak through" the OSX print dialog and they're ending
> up in PFP itself, which is running beneath the OSX print dialog and shouldn't
> be seeing any of this.)
> 
> There isn't a fix yet, but there is a workaround:
> 
> Go into an application where this doesn't happen (as in, anything other
> than PFP); set up your 3800 driver the way that you want; and save the config
> into a named preset in the OSX printer dialog.
> 
> Then, in PFP, use the preset to switch all of the settings for you. This
> will work properly.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
> David Miller
> Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
> ColorVision
>