Well, I got my Epson 1280 printer and bulk ink set up with my Dell Inspiron laptop hooked up. As suspected, ran tests and colors are all over the place. I have a 6 year old HP Photosmart that has been printing decently (colors on print somewhat match my monitors) with little to tweaking. I was messing around the 1280's and photoshop and illustrator's color management options, frankly I am completely lost. I can't figure out what options to pick. There are literally hundreds of combinations of color setup.
For example, I have one illustrator file where the grays are literally printed as green...untill I convert them to PS or tiff files, even then they are still off (everything has a bit too much red).
Untill I get this color issue fixed I can't get anything going. I also read the Epson 1280's don't play nice when printing straight from an Illustrator file because of some post-script issues?
Anyhow, I would appreciate some guidance. Computer engineers have sent rovers to Mars but color management is still a black hole! Thanks