Comments on: Fixes for Photoshop printing due soon

By: Carroll Stribling

Carroll Stribling — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:24:25 +0000

Is the fact that my EPSON 1280 prints with a vivid bright green color cast in black & white images if I let Photoshop CS3 rather than the printer control the colors part of these issues? If, so, I'll stop tearing my hair out and wait for the fix.. [Carroll, the update is now available. Please download it. --Thanks, J.]

By: Jeff Shen

Jeff Shen — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:36:54 +0000

After installing CS3 suite I lost printer settings in PS, Illy, Acrobat.
The printer is a DC12 driven by a XP12 server, everything works wonderfully when it is CS2, but now no PPD can be seen on printer driver setting dialog when the selected destination is the DC12, however when the destination is Postscript Document or PDF, the PPD for the XP12 shows up. Please is there a way out before I turn back to CS2?
Thank you!

By: roy

roy — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:19:51 +0000

i tried ps3 soon after it was released and quickly decided against it because it did not print correctly.
I always just make an 8.5 x 11 page in photoshop and then click on centered to print with my epson printer, but in cs3 it came out way off like 5″ off center.
At the time few people knew about the problem, so i was pulling my hair out trying to fix it. I finally took the file to another computer which had never had ps3. I printed from there and it was off center as well! I panicked for a moment because i was already late. I finally realized whatever the bug was it was ps3 itself doing something to the actual file that made the file no good to print. I think i finally just started from scratch in PS2 and it printed fine.
Anyway not being able to print is a pretty huge bug for a program like photoshop, don’t know how many people it really effects but for me printing on an epson inkjet with “centered” checked it definately is bugged, making cs2 my only real option.

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:07:56 +0000

I can print fine from PSE 6, but my CS 3 is hanging off the page (only printing 1/4 of the image, the rest of the paper is blank). I have to save my work, close it, open in PSE, then print from there. I’d love any solution you have!

By: David Zeller

David Zeller — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:27:32 +0000

In rough terms, presuming things go well with testing, do you know when this might come out? Not specifically, but “this month,” “by the end of the year,” that kind of thing.
Thanks,
David

By: Alan Hamer

Alan Hamer — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:42:35 +0000

I have an Epson Stylus Photo 800.
When, in PS CS3 I make an A4 print with “text” and “plain paper” as my preference, all is OK. When I use “best photo” and “premium glossy paper” as preferences, only half of the photo prints.
I still have CS2 on the computer and when I print from CS2 all is fine. I am a pro photographer and need to have this resolved.

By: Ramón G Castañeda

Ramón G Castañeda — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:44:23 +0000

Robert, Visit the Photoshop Macintosh forum and do a search on my name and the keywords "infamous TechNote". I've been getting fantastic prints out of my Epson 2200 as per post #5 in that thread: CLICK HERE I'm very, very fussy and the prints are simply spot on. It's just the Adobe TechNote referenced in that very long thread that is absolutely wrong. It even contradicts Adobe's own videos and PDFs, as well as the advice from pros like the late Bruce Fraser, Andrew Rodney, Jeff Schewe and many others. Incidentally, the print settings are in the Epson printer driver dialog box AFTER you click on the Print button in the Photoshop Print dialog box.

By: Chris Cox

Chris Cox — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:59:14 +0000

Mr. Baker: the settings for paper type, quality, ink, etc. are in the printer driver dialogs, not in Photoshop. If you can’t find them in the printer driver dialogs, then you may have accidentally selected the GIMP PRINT driver for your printer instead of the Epson driver — if so, delete that printer and select the correct driver when you reinstall the printer.

By: Robert Baker

Robert Baker — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:17:44 +0000

I recently went from a Windows PC w/Photoshop CS2 to In iMAC and CS3. My printer is an Epson 2200. I cannot find any place to set paper, quality, ink, etc. My paper of choice is velvet fine art paper but when printing it prints like it is regular computer paper. I have a show in a local gallery in December and would like to know how much longer I will have to endure this?
Robert

By: Joe Field

Joe Field — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:08:02 +0000

No matter how many great features in CS3, it’s not worth much if it constantly locks up or crashes for no apparent reason. Looking at the Adobe PS and Bridge forums, many of these problems have existed for months. At the very least, Adobe should have a list at the beginning of each forum listing the recognized bugs and some indication as to about when each will be fixed. The way it is now, I feel like Adobe could care less.
Joe

By: David Williams

David Williams — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:59:23 +0000

Delighted to hear this update / patch is being tested and I look forward to when it is released. Perhaps then I can uninstall CS2 and not have to save my printing up!
Otherwise CS3 & ACR 4.x rocks for me.

By: François De Heel

François De Heel — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:29:27 +0000

I filed a case for tech support not longer ago than the day before yesterday (at that time not aware yet of the big issue)… to get a standard answer that “support is not included in a trial version”. OK, I understand. But would it not be wiser to just admit : “yes sir, we have a problem – no sir, we do not have a solution yet – yes, sir, we are working at it – sorry”. It would save photographers like me a lot of time trying to figure out what is going wrong where (Epson?? Windows?? Photoshop??).

By: Zane Paxton

Zane Paxton — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:39:20 +0000

I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to get my HP DesignJet Z3100 44″ to match what I see on screen with Photoshop CS3. I just discovered that this is part of a much bigger issue…. I hope this is fixed soon… I will likely start using Qimage as a work-around until this is remedied.

By: Phil Brown

Phil Brown — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:16:36 +0000

Frank – the new driver, for OS X (and it will require the update to OS X as the current version won’t run it) will allow you to access colours that don’t appear in an 8bit gamut. The gamut isn’t larger, but the steps from one part to another are greatly increased, providing a smoother transition where the inkset/dot size/half toning support those additional colours in the steps.
The main advantage will be for those who shoot in RAW and create 16bit files in PS or who scan to 16bit from film. They don’t need to convert them to 8bit or have the driver drop/convert data it can’t use. It makes for a slightly simpler workflow and should result in omre accurate and more pleasing colour reproduction.
Theo and Warren – are you using borderless mode? Are you allowing for the 3mm non-printable border when not using borderless mode if you’re creating custom paper sizes?

By: Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:55:15 +0000

I’m considering purchasing a new 64″ Epson large format printer. Part of the advertising blurb is its 16-bit printer driver.
But all our images are – up until now – 8-bit.
What benefit is there to this new 16-bit driver? Or would there be more benefit if I increased our images to 16-bits beforehand?
Thank you.