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[Chris152]

Try this:

select ps manages colours
print

in the next dialogue box,
select paper type/ quality
select colour options: you'll see that they are all grayed out, suggesting colour management in the printer is disabled.

Then, try:

select printer manages colours
print

in the next dialogue box,
select paper type/ quality
select colour options: now the controls are active.

I guess this means that colour management is enabled/ disabled automatically depending on what you select in the first print dialogue box. Does that make sense? We're right at the limit of my understanding here!

[whelkmagic]

I know exactly what you mean and I have tried this and thought the exact same as you - if the Options are greyed out it must be doing it.

But if I chose "Photoshop Manages Colours" the prints are dreadful.

Costas reckons this is becasue I haven't told the HP driver to turn of its colour managment and there is double colour managment going on which is messing up the colours.

So even though I choose Photoshop Manages Colour and it looks like it is in the Print Options the driver doesn't know this (and is still trying to manage the colours somewhere in the background) and the results are dreadful.

When I choose Printer Manages Colours I am getting better prints but not what I see in Photopshop - because the driver is managing the colours.

Does that make sense?

As you said previously when you switch from Photoshop to Printer Manages colours (in Photoshop) it does prompt you to check the colour management options in the driver.

I'm still searching - as soon as I find anything meaningful I'll let you know. Maybe I'll try phoning HP - that could be fun!

[whelkmagic]

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[Chris152]

It makes sense as I understand it! This has got to be easy to sort. The questions are, when using the B9180:

1. Do you need to switch off printer colour management if you're allowing PS to manage colours, or does this happen automatically? If it doesn't happen automatically, how do you switch it off manually?

2. How do you get the profile for HP photo matte (not everyday photo matte) to appear among the profiles available when PS manages colour?

Can anyone answer these questions?

[whelkmagic]

Chris if you look at my other post the answer has been supplied.

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Then from the page above the link to the video tutorial:

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/HP9180PrintingSM.mov

You were right all along - i.e. choosing "Photoshop Manages Colour" in the CS3 print Dialog switches it off in the driver - remember you said when you went to the next Print dialog the options to change to Vendor matching was greyed out?

I was convinced you needed to do something else because the prints I was getting from Photshop Manages Colours were so rubbish - but there are one or 2 other little tweaks you need to do - e.g. choosing the paper type in the Photoshop Dialog that I am hoping will help. So I'll get testing - I really hope it works.

[Chris152]

That's great to know, and straight forward! Thanks for letting me know.

I still don't have the answer to the question of how I get the photo matte profile into the PS options, though! I think I know where to place it, but not where I get it from...

Cheers

Chris