AndyMc Posted April 5, 2013 Share #1 Posted April 5, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hello Since mountain lion ive been trying to find a way of installing my preferred driver 6.57. However apple won't allow this since they manage the drivers through app store. .. I missed the advanced mono options and wonder how others feel about this? ... Is there a way to install drivers manually and if nit how has this changed your printing workflow... Thanks in advance:o Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 5, 2013 Posted April 5, 2013 Hi AndyMc, Take a look here Epson drivers for mono usibg Mountain lion. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
stickan1 Posted April 5, 2013 Share #2 Posted April 5, 2013 I have changed to a separate program for handling printing called Mirage, it is not free but it gives you excellent control of your images! Epson bundles it with some of their larger printers, but you can buy it separate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMc Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share #3 Posted April 5, 2013 I have changed to a separate program for handling printing called Mirage, it is not free but it gives you excellent control of your images! Epson bundles it with some of their larger printers, but you can buy it separate. Thank you.. its been annoying me for months ... will take a look Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMc Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share #4 Posted April 5, 2013 Oh dear looked great but inly fir windows:mad: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMc Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share #5 Posted April 5, 2013 Is anyone using this printing tool http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRoverview.html Looking to find an alternative to the stock mountain lion epson drivers which have taken all the advanced monochrome functionality away... Thanks A Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_parker Posted April 6, 2013 Share #6 Posted April 6, 2013 Oh dear looked great but inly fir windows:mad: I might be misunderstanding but it seems to say it's good for Mac, as long as you're running Adobe software Start - Englisch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickan1 Posted April 6, 2013 Share #7 Posted April 6, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Oh dear looked great but inly fir windows:mad: No there are mac versions. I am on mac myself and have used it since last autumn. I mostly use Lightroom. It is not a plugin but you can make a droplet and put it on your desktop and drop the files there (Tiff or Jpg files). You can have several droplets. There is an option where you only use the black inks so there is no risk for color casts. Start - Englisch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMc Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share #8 Posted April 6, 2013 I might be misunderstanding but it seems to say it's good for Mac, as long as you're running Adobe software Start - Englisch Oh really... I'll take another look... I did read only for windows no mac version?... Perhaps this was an old page? Andy Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMc Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share #9 Posted April 6, 2013 Well all I can say is I got that wrong.. ;-) I was looking at a few sites so perhaps I got mixed up, however I'm running an old printer r2400, works fine but it says it isn't supported. If this is a plugin and there's a trial I'm going to test today... I have read that the Abw features are available if you allow printer to manage colours, however this is not what I want. I did come across a monochrome only RIP for epson http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRoverview.html It his would certainly help with mono and I guess I would have to resort to normal driver features for colour. Anyhow that for putting me straight on Mirage I'll test... Wish me look! A Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinchohs Posted April 6, 2013 Share #10 Posted April 6, 2013 Hello Since mountain lion ive been trying to find a way of installing my preferred driver 6.57. However apple won't allow this since they manage the drivers through app store. .. I missed the advanced mono options and wonder how others feel about this? ... Is there a way to install drivers manually and if nit how has this changed your printing workflow... Thanks in advance:o Any, if I am understanding your issue correctly, I would say the following. To the best of my understanding, none of the ABW (Advanced Black and White) features of the Epson driver have been removed from prior versions. And if now they are only accessible when you select that color management would be managed by the printer, it's actually a precaution on the side of the manufacturer. In a nutshell, and there is a lot to be read on this if you are interested, when you print through the driver (assuming you are printing B&W using the ABW mode), you do NOT want to manage colors through the printing application. Otherwise you are double managing color, which it's not a good thing. So from where ever you are printing, just let the printer manage color and use the ABW in the Epson driver. This is all good as long as you are not printing color. Regarding QTR. It works like a print driver in the mac, and creates a virtual printer that you select when printing from your application. When you do, this replacement driver opens up and it allows to select up to three curves (similar to a color profile) and mix them to produce B&W prints, controling highlights, midtones and shadows. This 'RIP' it's ideal when printing with the all black and white inks (Piezography or Ebony Carbon inks). If you want more information on this, google Piezography and Paul Roark, They both have very active groups in Yahoo and lots of documentation. You can still use the QTR to print with Ultrachome Inks (Epson inks), and you can get a minor differential and certainly more control than with the driver. It takes some experimentation, if that's something that interests you. Hope this helps. Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMc Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share #11 Posted April 6, 2013 Any, if I am understanding your issue correctly, I would say the following. To the best of my understanding, none of the ABW (Advanced Black and White) features of the Epson driver have been removed from prior versions. And if now they are only accessible when you select that color management would be managed by the printer, it's actually a precaution on the side of the manufacturer. In a nutshell, and there is a lot to be read on this if you are interested, when you print through the driver (assuming you are printing B&W using the ABW mode), you do NOT want to manage colors through the printing application. Otherwise you are double managing color, which it's not a good thing. So from where ever you are printing, just let the printer manage color and use the ABW in the Epson driver. This is all good as long as you are not printing color. Regarding QTR. It works like a print driver in the mac, and creates a virtual printer that you select when printing from your application. When you do, this replacement driver opens up and it allows to select up to three curves (similar to a color profile) and mix them to produce B&W prints, controling highlights, midtones and shadows. This 'RIP' it's ideal when printing with the all black and white inks (Piezography or Ebony Carbon inks). If you want more information on this, google Piezography and Paul Roark, They both have very active groups in Yahoo and lots of documentation. You can still use the QTR to print with Ultrachome Inks (Epson inks), and you can get a minor differential and certainly more control than with the driver. It takes some experimentation, if that's something that interests you. Hope this helps. Martin. Martin Thanks very much for your explanation, I've spent the afternoon playing around and being methodical in my approach. I actually got the ABW menu to display, however the conditions are pretty awkward to determine... This probably supports your point around multi management points. I'm now happy with all my printing apart from a custom profile I have for Somerset velvet, fine art papers, they're probably 1-2 stops to dark... However as I'm writing this perhaps that's down to using the ABW. I tested a warm tone Baryta paper today, using the basic driver and standard icc profile and the results were spot on! I'll test my profile without ABW on Monday and see what the outputs like... Thanks for the tips and info, much appreciated Andy Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMc Posted April 8, 2013 Author Share #12 Posted April 8, 2013 Ok testing today has been very positive. I had not looked at colour spacing menu within the driver and this is the once key menu to getting access to ABW. So for mono using ABW is a far better output than PS managing colours and using a paper profile. Next step is to see if I can get my custom paper profile in to the paper profile selections when using ABW to see if this gives better tonality.. Although I'm v happy with ABW with a finer adjustment set to lighter.. Thanks to those who replied Andy Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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