I recently purchased an Epson R3000 and am having terrible trouble with the colour management from Corel. Everything I output has a very yellowy/browny caste over it when compared to my screen (for example a slightly warm grey comes out brown-grey and light blues come out very murky in colour tone). I have applied Adobe RGB (1998) to the document, opted for Corel to manage colours and turned off colour management in my printer. I am also using IC profiles specific to my papers. My monitor is self-calibrated but up until now the colour difference between screen and output device has never been a problem. Does anyone have any suggestions about where I am going wrong...
I am not a color expert, like David is, however, there is one question that I think has to be asked first. Are you working in CMYK and then outputting to the Epson? If so, try your design in RGB color modes and then send it to the printer. Most PC printer drivers are expecting RGB colors and the driver, itself, converts from RGB to CMYK. If your driver does not understand CMYK input, it will believe that the colors are RGB and converts the CMYK with its conversion algorithms, which will mess up the actual output colors.
Just a wild 2 cent guess.
I need you to post screen captures of your CorelDRAW, printer color manage,ent settings please.
David
Attached is part 1 of my settings - apparently my file size was 8k too big to send as one file, so shall send the rest in another 'reply'.
In the settings I have also captured a piece of the photo I was printing which is a calibration pic with a range of tones etc. On screen the greys are clearly a black grey but when I print they look browny rather than blacky. Overall there is a caste across whole picture creating a 'warm' look. I have tried a few different papers but get the same result. If I print with EPSON R3000 doing the colour management rather than CorelDRAW the warm caste is reduced significantly.
I am using Adobe RGB (1998) as my document colour setting and RGB is the primary colour mode. My paper is MOAB entrada rag natural 300. The ICC profile is based on using the EPSON Watercolour - Radiant White paper setting which I have selected under the printer settings - see http://moabpaper.com/icc-profiles-downloads/epson/epson-stylus-photo-r3000/. In colour proofing I have also selected the MOAB ICC to try and replicate on screen the end result.
Wherever rendering intent is mentioned I have selected Relative colormetric.
My monitor driver is currently set on sRGB but I have tried it on both this and Adobe RGB (1998) and the result is no different.
I have read through the EPSON R3000 extra colour management manual and a CorelDRAW X5 one I found on-line and can't find anything obvious... Under troubleshooting in the EPSON one there is mention that if a setting in the ICC profile for the paper differs in any way from a setting when you print then you may get a yellow/brown tone.
Look forward to your thoughts. Very disappointing start to my CorelDRAW usage...
David, here is the second half of my settings. Thanks. K
Ok here we go, first my e-mail is davidmilisock@graphictechnology.com it handles 1gb mail so we can forget thie smal file size limitation stuff.
Now first question, are these images actually Adobe RGB?
Now that you have access to send large files grab screen captures of all the color management dialogs and send them to me please.
What are the application default color management settings? Under the tools menu, color management default settings.
Some suggestions:
Since you use RGB do not use proof setting for the display, CorelDRAW will display fine without this and if your printer profile is decent the printer will verly closely approximate sRGB and maybe Adobe RGB.
Use perceptual rendering intent.
Since you're using a profile that you want for a specific paper and you printer allows that I would allow the printer to handle the conversion. Now please understand this, this does not take CorelDRAW out of the process at all. I would allow the printer to handle the conversion and make sure you use perceptual rendering. I'm not sure the paper profile you picked is correct or incorrect.
Now as far as the print driver is concerned I would try to see how changing the setting there and see if the color adjustment is just a set of curves or if it then allows a profile which is what it shoud do.