Colors changes from monitor to Print

[rewarnke]

I have an iMac that has been calibrated with a LaCie Blue Eye2. My printer is an Epson 1280. As long as I use regular Epson paper and use "Same as source" as the Print Space I get very good pictures. I have a supply of Pictorico papers like their watercolor stock that makes excellent prints but when I try to use their downloaded ICC profiles for that paper for use with the Epson 1280 the color shifts and turns a reddish color. I have the watercolor ICC profile but there are no instructions where to place the file or how to use it when printing with that paper. The Epson printer manual does not tell you how to use it, Elements 3.0 does not tell me, nor have I been able to find any step-by-step instruction on the net on what choices to make while using Elements to print my photos. Thank goodness they have a print preview as I was wasting too much paper.

Using Elements on the iMac with OS X can someone tell me what I need to do each step of the way? This is driving me crazy. There are a whole group of major high-end inkjet paper companies (Ilford, Pictorico, etc) that post their ICC profiles for specialty paper that I cannot use until I figure this out.

Thanks all..........

[Wendy]

Richard,

Profiles go under Library>Colour Sync>Profiles.

I have never tried using other papers so can't really help ... maybe Jodi will be along soon as I know she prints out far more than I do.


Wendy

[rewarnke]

Thanks Wendy.

I looked up where my profiles are and I found my scanner profiles in the Colorsync folder along with my film scanner profiles but that was it. There was a monitor profile but not the one I got when I calibrated it. I found the paper profiles I downloaded in my personal user area under library>colorsync>profiles>ICC profile, in this case the Pictorico water color profile. Am I to assume that all these profiles should have been placed into the "master " library>colorsync>profiles?

I have looked high and low online and in libraries, I have two major sized books on Photoshop, and have yet to find a complete discussion on how to do this. My printer site, Epson, does not tell you how or where to place the files nor does Elements 3.0 have any complete discussions. There are times that you just want to experiment with high quality papers for special purposes and it should not be this hard.

I much appreciate your commens and I will await Jodi's comments (hopefully) before I make any changes yet.

[bnk1953]

I'm not sure if this will help - but I usually use paper from Red River Paper. They recommend that people using their paper (and probably others) do the following before printing on the paper.
Iin print dialoge - go to "Print Settings" (in the "copies and pages" drop down) - and choose the proper paper; then go to "Color Management" (in the same drop down area) and move brightness and saturation to plus 4 while reducing the magenta to minus 8. Makes a big difference for me. Hope it helps.
~bruce