Epson 9600, 7600 User Manual

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EPSON Stylus

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How to use Custom RGB ICC Proles with the
Standard Epson Photographic Printer Driver

A Photographic Workow with Adobe Photoshop 7

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This document is to help assist novice level photographers who are trying to produce the best

quality color and black and white photographic prints on the EPSON Stylus Pro 7600 or 9600

printers using UltraChrome Inks. However, the workow described in this document can be

applied to any printer.

Although, you can simply use the built-in color management system within the standard Epson

printer driver, using the power of the ICC prole format, this document will teach you a different

way of printing your RGB photography.

If your a photographer of any type, you need to try this ICC workow out. I’m sure you’ll agree,

it represents a big step forward in producing sellable quality prints. Enjoy...

Mark Radogna

Senior Manager, Professional Graphics

EPSON America, Inc.

How to use an ICC prole with the Epson driver

STEP 1: Installing Your RGB ICC Prole & Conguring Adobe Photoshop 7

To use any RGB ICC prole with the EPSON Stylus Pro 7600 or 9600 driver, you must rst place

them in the standard place for proles. Regardless if your using a Macintosh or Windows

computer, you will get great results. Here is where you must copy the .icc les:

Operating System ICC File Location

Mac OS 9.2.2 System Folder / ColorSync Proles

Mac OS X System / Library / ColorSync / Proles

Windows 98 & Me Windows / System / Color

Windows NT, 2000, & XP Winnt / System32 / Spool / Drivers / Color

Next, open Adobe Photoshop 7 and choose “Color Settings...” under the “Edit” menu. (This may

This is a very controversial dialog box.
Depending upon who you talk to, they
might give you different recommendations.

I like Adobe RGB (1998) for better color
saturation. However, ColorMatch RGB also
works well here, especially for esh tones.

For grayscale images, I chose a Dot Gain of
20% instead of Gray Gamma 1.8 because
I feel it looks more ‘neutral’ versus the
warmer look of Gray Gamma 1.8.

Always use the Adobe (ACE) Conversion
Engine. Its the best. And only available
from within Adobe software.

I like using the Perceptual Rendering Intent
for everything. I sometimes use Relative
Colorimetric for Black & White photos.
Try your prints both ways to nd the best
setting for your work.

be different under Mac OS X). Set-up the dialog box to look like this and hit “OK”.

Always turn ‘on’ Black Point Compensation.
This is because the Perceptual Rendering
Intent does not care, but the Relative
Colorimetric does. So its easier to always
turn this ‘on’ and forget about it.

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