Notice: Output Viewing Conditions

Due to the nature of all pigment inks, lighting conditions can affect the appearance of printer output. For example, a print viewed under daylight may appear to have a slightly different color balance when viewed under tungsten lighting. Care should be taken that the prints are produced for the lighting conditions in which they will be displayed.

The EPSON printer driver was designed to represent color accurately when prints are illuminated with a D50 (daylight) light source. For optimum results, understand your output display conditions

before printing.

Printing with EPSON Drivers for Macintosh 3-9

Color Management Settings

The following tables list the color management settings available when you choose either Color Controls, PhotoEnhance4, or ColorSync.

PhotoEnhance4 is designed to enhance images captured using video cameras, digital cameras, or scanners. Depending on your system and the size of the image, printing with PhotoEnhance4 may take longer.

Color control modes and Gamma settings

Automatic

Analyzes the color information in your image and optimizes

 

color correction accordingly.

 

 

Photo-realistic

Produces sharper images and more vivid colors by

 

automatically adjusting the contrast, saturation, and

 

brightness. Corrects for overall under- or over-exposure of

 

the original image.

 

 

Vivid

Intensifies colors and lightens the midtones and highlights.

 

Best for print jobs with non-photographic images.

1.5Gamma Produces the same contrast values as earlier EPSON ink jet printers.

1.8Gamma Increases contrast.

2.2Gamma Matches image colors with sRGB devices.

PhotoEnhance4 settings

Tone

Lets you choose from Normal for standard tone correction,

 

Hard for high contrast, Vivid for more intense colors (as

 

defined above), Sepia, and Monochrome.

 

 

Effect

Lets you choose from four special effects (and set the

 

intensity using the Low/High slider): Sharpness, Soft

 

Focus, Canvas, and Parchment.

 

 

Digital Camera

Corrects noise and other flaws common to digital camera

Correction

images.