My personal experience: Using Paint Shop Pro 7, I was never able to get the
colors "just right" on the Epson 1280, and I tried EVERYTHING g.

When I print using Photoshop Elements, I simply set the 1280 to "No Color
Adjustment" and the results are perfect.

"Lindyhop" wrote in message
...

The ICM flow means there's a .icm file that describes how to translate the
numbers in the image file into numbers (colors) that will appear on the
print,
or at least as close as is possible since the printer will always have
fewer
colors than the screen (ie, smaller gamut) and lower brightness.

Many of the good Epson Photo printers give you the ICM file for each paper
type, which allows you to 'soft-proof' in Photoshop by dumbing down the
monitor
view to (hopefully) show the reduced gamut and brightness of the print.
If you
have Photoshop V6 or later I can tell you how to do this.

The printer you have has bundled all these profiles into one ICM file
(your
EE163_1.icm or .icc) so you can't soft proof them separately. What
happens is
that when you select the paper type to match what you're printing on the
Epson
driver will pick the right ICM file for that paper.

This works pretty well if your monitor is well calibrated and if the
colors are
in gamut, and works poorly if the monitor is not properly calibrated.

Here's some background if you're interested in CM basics ...
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/13605.html

Bill

Thanks!