Epson 2100 and PS7 Media Type Paper Profiles problem

[black-coffee2002]

I recently had to reinstall windows xp on my pc. Getting my Epson 2100
and Photoshop PS7 to work nicely together is proving daunting.

From inside PS7 when I try to print, I'm in the 'Epson Stylus Photo

2100 Properties' 'Main' menu. Under Media Type, I'm only getting a
few media types: plain paper, archival matte paper, watercolor paper
(radiant white) and CD-R.

I remember on my previous installation I had it set up so that it would
show all the correct papers, archival matte, glossy, premium semigloss.
I got these paper profiles from <a
href="http://tech.epson.com.au/downloads/product.asp?id=stylusPhoto2100&platform=w2k&submit=Search+>>">http://tech.epson.com.au/downloads/product.asp?id=stylusPhoto2100&platform=w2k&submit=Search+>></a>.

Multiple web sites say that all I should need to do to get these paper
profiles installed is drag them to
c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color

But like I said, that does NOT make them show up in the "Media Type"
pulldown menu of the Stylus Photo 2100 properties window. The only
place I can see them is on the Print menu under "Print Space" if I
change the profile away from 'Stylus Photo 2100/2200', I can choose any
of the paper profiles.

This is NOT how I used to have it working. It used to be that I kept
the Print Space Profile as 'Stylus Photo 2100/2200' and controlled the
paper type from inside the Stylus Photo 2100 menu.

Any ideas how I can get this working again?

 

[Jon O'Brien]

Any ideas how I can get this working again?

Right click on the profiles and choose 'Install Profile'. If you only have
the option 'Uninstall Profile' (it's in the right directory, it must be
installed!), then uninstall it and right click again. You should have the
install option this time.

Jon.

 

[black-coffee2002]

Right, I've done this. They are installed. I can see them as options
in the Print menu under "Print Space" if I change the profile away from
'Stylus Photo 2100/2200', I can choose any of the paper profiles.
However, where I expect to see them is under the Media Type, which for
some reason still is not available.

 

[black-coffee2002]

A helpful guy at Luminous Landscape mentioned, "You probably already
know this, but just a guess: do you have the matte black or the photo
black cartridge installed? With the matte black only a few media will
show up, like what you've listed."

His remark made me second-guess myself. I had remembered the Media
Types showing all the paper types regardless of which cartridge I had
installed, but maybe I was wrong. I switched out the matte cartridge
for the photo black cartridge and sure enough the Premium Semigloss and
the Glossy paper types were now visible. Curiously, the Archival Matte
was still listed.

As a test, I replaced the Photo Black cartridge with the Matte Black
cartridge. Now the Media Type showed all the papers, Archival Matte,
Premium Semigloss, Glossy Photo Weight, etc.

So I guess the full answer is that the Epson Print Properties window
only loads the paper profiles when the correct cartridge is in the
printer, but once it's been installed once, it doesn't remove them,
regardless of what cartridge is currently installed.

 

[Roy]

A helpful guy at Luminous Landscape mentioned, "You probably already
know this, but just a guess: do you have the matte black or the photo
black cartridge installed? With the matte black only a few media will
show up, like what you've listed."

His remark made me second-guess myself. I had remembered the Media
Types showing all the paper types regardless of which cartridge I had
installed, but maybe I was wrong. I switched out the matte cartridge
for the photo black cartridge and sure enough the Premium Semigloss and
the Glossy paper types were now visible. Curiously, the Archival Matte
was still listed.

As a test, I replaced the Photo Black cartridge with the Matte Black
cartridge. Now the Media Type showed all the papers, Archival Matte,
Premium Semigloss, Glossy Photo Weight, etc.

So I guess the full answer is that the Epson Print Properties window
only loads the paper profiles when the correct cartridge is in the
printer, but once it's been installed once, it doesn't remove them,
regardless of what cartridge is currently installed.

Hi there.

I had a similar problem tonight with my 1290, with only a very limited
number of papers appearing in the Media drop down list.

It so happened that Premium Glossy was available, so that is what I used. I
had wanted to use up my last sheet of Tetenal Spectrajet High Gloss, but it
requires the Media to be set to Glossy Film, and that was not on the list.

The 1290, of course, only has one Black Cart available, so your answer was
not a lot of help, but it did get me thinking.

I went back into PS and the Epson Print dialogue to check, and the full
range was available. I then went through everything I had done in "Print
with Preview" and "Page Setup", and discovered that if you tick the "No
Margins" box in Epson Driver, Paper Tab, the range of Media available is
reduced considerably. I had never actually used that "No Margin" setting
before tonight, and had never been aware that this might happen.

These Printer Drivers are getting far to clever for us Photographers, but I
will now be able to use up that last, expensive, A3 sheet of Tetenal, with
Margins.

Roy G

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Some of the papers Epson makes begin to ripple as they get wet with ink.
If you are printing borderless, I can see the problem that may cause
should the inkhead get caught on the rippled edge of the paper. It
would make for a real mess. The more rigid papers are much safer when
printing borderless, so that would make sense.

In the case of the 2200, I do seem to recall the issue is which black
cartridge is installed (as someone else already mentioned), but I'd
imagine it could also have the same reduced paper options with
borderless printing.

Art