Yikes! ICC profile for my old epson

philstanbridge · 26 Aug 2022 at 11:32

Guys and gals, I’m a bit stumped. I’ve an ancient epson photo printer which is actually excellent, but something has changed in the driver. Flesh tones are coming out almost purple. It’s not the ink. So it must be the profile? It used to be ok until recently. I’ve had a dabble and there are lots of settings but nothing is making a difference. Has anyone got a stylus? Can you tell me what the profiles should read?

Donnie Fisher · 26 Aug 2022 at 23:16

Do you have the inks in the right place in the printer ?

Most printers will print a test page if you press and hold the power button (or similar). Does that print ok ?

philstanbridge · 28 Aug 2022 at 04:09

Yeah they’re all in their right place. It’s really odd as other images are now printing fine it’s just this one, which was taken using an iPhone. Flesh tones are purple. Yet my images are as you’d expect

Rroff · 28 Aug 2022 at 05:25

What colour space does the image use? possible it is using a different image format i.e. expanded bit depth which isn't being handled well software wise.

Donnie Fisher · 31 Aug 2022 at 16:00

Could be something in that. Might be worth running the image through a different program to save it out as a plain old jpeg And try that.

philstanbridge · 1 Sep 2022 at 06:41

I just couldn’t get it to print properly. Im
not one to quit but after 12 prints the ink and paper was an issue lol..