How to Use Epson Mac OS X Printer Drivers for the EPSON Stylus Pro® 7600 and 9600 UltraChrome™ Printers EPSON America, Inc.
Table of Contents 2 Contents 3 Forward 4 Mac OS X Driver Installation STEP 1: STEP 2: STEP 3: STEP 4: STEP 5: STEP 6: 8 Printing with Mac OS X: An ICC Workflow STEP 1: STEP 2: STEP 3: STEP 4: STEP 5: STEP 6: 15 Run the Driver Installer Package Connect Your Printer and Get it Ready Launch the Apple Print Center Utility Selecting Your Printer Connection Adding Your Printer Driver to the Print Center Utility Naming Your Printer Driver and Deciding to Share It with Others Installing Your RGB ICC Profil
Forward This document is to help assist anyone using the latest Mac OS X drivers from Epson for the EPSON Stylus Pro 7600 or 9600 UltraChrome printers. There are two different types of Macintosh users - Pre OS X and OS X only. For Pre OS X users, one of the biggest problems facing Mac OS X printing is that everything is new. Once you understand the Chooser is gone, you’re left with something that must be understood all over again. It’s a dramatic change over the previous Chooser concept.
Mac OS X Driver Installation 4 Mac OS X Driver Installation STEP 1: Run the Driver Installer Package Installing or reinstalling Mac OS X drivers are very straightforward. After downloading the proper driver for your printer model, simply double-click the installer package and follow the on screen instructions. When reinstalling a driver, your ‘Install’ button will change to ‘Upgrade’. Your Macintosh may need to be restarted after installation has completed.
Mac OS X Driver Installation 5 STEP 4: Selecting Your Printer Connection Select the ‘Add’ icon at the top of the Printer List window. Next, pull down the top menu and select the proper connection you are trying to use for your Epson printer. Select your connection type here Depending upon your Epson printer model, you may be able to connect to Mac OS X via USB, AppleTalk, TCP/IP, or FireWire. You must only select an Epson printer connection by using one of the Epson interface choices.
Mac OS X Driver Installation 6 STEP 5: Adding Your Printer Driver to the Print Center Utility After selecting the connection type from step 4, the Epson printer should be showing up under the ‘Product’ and ‘Kind’ columns. Select your printer model here 1 Then select your media input type here 2 1 Select your Epson printer model and if supported, select the appropriate media input type from the ‘Page Setup’ pull down menu at the bottom of the Printer List dialog box.
Mac OS X Driver Installation 7 STEP 6: Naming Your Printer Driver and Deciding to Share It with Others Once you’ve successfully added your printer driver and it’s showing up within the Printer List window, you may want to rename it to better identify it later. To rename your printer driver, simply select the printer device within the Printer List window and hit command-I or select ‘Show Info’ from the ‘Printers’ pull down menu. This is where you type-in a new name.
Printing with Mac OS X: An ICC Workflow 8 Printing with Mac OS X: An ICC Workflow STEP 1: Installing Your RGB ICC Profiles In order to use any RGB ICC profile for your EPSON Stylus Pro 7600 or 9600 printer under Mac OS X, you need to first place them within the standard place for profiles. Under Mac OS 10.2.6 or higher, place your ICC profiles here: /Library/ColorSync/Profiles To obtain high-quality ICC profiles directly from Epson, go to http://prographics.epson.
Printing with Mac OS X: An ICC Workflow 9 STEP 3: Opening Your Image File Next, open your image file and choose the proper conversion option if asked. If your file already contains a profile that matches the color settings you’ve setup in step 2 or if your image file is in LAB space, then the image will open right up. If not, then Photoshop will display a dialog similar to this: In order to open your image file properly, you should NOT convert your data file.
Printing with Mac OS X: An ICC Workflow 10 STEP 4: Defining Your Page Setup Next, choose ‘Print with Preview...’ from the ‘File’ menu. Notice the document dimensions, then click the ‘Page Setup...’ button. The following dialog will appear. This is where you will create a new custom paper size. This is where you select your printer model and media input type.
Printing with Mac OS X: An ICC Workflow 11 STEP 5: Selecting Your ICC Profile and Rendering Intent From the Photoshop 7 ‘Print with Preview’ dialog box select the ‘Show More Options’ check box, and choose ‘Color Management’ from the pull down menu. Your dialog box should look something like this: 1 2 3 1 Under ‘Source Space:’ the ‘Document:’ radio button should be selected. You may see a different RGB profile tagged for your image file versus the example ‘Adobe RGB (1998)’ above.
Printing with Mac OS X: An ICC Workflow 12 STEP 6: Choosing Your Printer Driver Settings & Printing Your Image Take note of the ‘Print Space Profile’ selection within the ‘Print with Preview’ dialog box then click the ‘Print...’ button. The following dialog box will appear.
Printing with Mac OS X: An ICC Workflow 13 STEP 6: Choosing Your Printer Driver Settings & Printing Your Image Pull down the driver features menu and select ‘Print Settings’. The following dialog box appears. This Print Settings dialog is setup for an RGB ICC profile that was created for an EPSON Stylus Pro 9600 using Roll based Premium Luster Photo Paper, printing in color or black & white at 2,880 dpi.
Printing with Mac OS X: An ICC Workflow 14 STEP 6: Choosing Your Printer Driver Settings & Printing Your Image Next, pull down the driver features menu and select ‘Paper Configuration’. The following dialog box appears. Make sure to verify this setting. Sometimes the Color Density is adjusted for the creation of an RGB profile to optimize D-max and color gamut. Again, make sure you are selecting the correct settings for your ICC profile.
Mac OS X Driver Installation 15 TIPS and Troubleshooting TIP 1: Run ‘Repair Disk Permissions’ Within the Apple Disk Utility, under the ‘First Aid’ tab, you have a choice to verify and repair your disk permissions. We have found that by repairing your disk permissions about once per month, you should run into less errors. This has been known to fix the ‘Command Error’ notice that sometimes shows-up on the front control panel of the SP7600 or SP9600.
Printing with Mac OS X: An ICC Workflow 16 This document comes with no technical support of any kind and can be distributed freely among Epson customers for their use. Specifications and terms are subject to change without notice. EPSON, EPSON Stylus and Micro Piezo are registered trademarks of Seiko Epson Corporation. UltraChrome, EPSON Archival, EPSON Photographic Dye, ColorLife, and DX3 are trademarks, and EPSON Preferred Protection Plan is a service mark of Epson America, Inc.
