???I have been printing all weekend with no issues using Epson Velvet Somerset and Exhibition Fiber paper as well - all came out beautifully.  Then I ran a job with about 16 8 x 10's on a roll of Epson Doubleweight Matte Paper- and they look awful!  After my first run, I noticed I still had the profile set for the Somerset Velvet - I reset the profile for the Dbl wgt Matte and ran it again and it came out the same way - most of these are old vintage black and whites of my hometown and they all came out sepia toned and the few colored images were really muddy looking. 

Now, my question is - if I recall a job and its images, and then change the profile will it still print the same crappy way, or will it accept the new profile.  Since this is what I did and got the same results was wondering if that could be the problem.  I also ran a third run (but just one row this time) and cleared the que and entered the images one by one - and still got the sepia tone. 

I am using Epson 9880, Qimage Studio2009 v.268 and profiles for the DBL Wgt Matte are DWMP_ PK, Printer settings for Media is "Double Weight Matte paper"  Any suggestions??

Thanks!

Rhonda 

Thanks Terry, I have used this paper successfully in the past.  It has been a while, but at the time I printed a black and white with color background and it came out beautifully.  This was before I had this amazing software, but I believe there is a job log of some kind somewhere in the Epson program.  I can look tonight and see if there is anything different than used yesterday. 

One other thing that I forgot to mention - the settings from yesterday show the rendering was set on RC as opposed to Perceptual that I normally use.  Would this have any effect?  Before printing I also did the colorspace override for the whole batch to Adobe RGB 1998 - as I do with all of my prints.

Two of my ink carts are pretty low, but I am pretty sure that the Epson panel will let me know if there is not enough of those colors to complete the print?  I have the carts, just don't want to use until I have to. 

Thanks again, and if anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know.  I am scurrying to prepare for a local festival and need my prints to look their best.  After that I will try the upgrade you suggested.

Have a great day!
Rhonda

Thanks Ray, I will check all of the settings you mentioned when I can get back to my printer.  I have made satisfactory prints with this media in the past using Qimage (the one that I noticed had the rendering set differntly) - but unfortunately, it was a black and white that was intended to be sepia tone.   This is not paper that I use frequently, but I do recall that I printed some posters of my logo using Qimage for another exhibit. 

Oh well, looks like I will just have to start over. 

Thanks for your help.

Hey Terry, that all sounds like a good plan - but I don't believe Qimage would save a job file that I ran before I installed Qimage.  The one job that I did pull up that was ran on that media was intended to be sepia tone - so that would not be much help.  The other image that I spoke about that I know had B&W and color in the same image was before installing Qimage.  Then the other I mentioned about the logo posters I THINK was after installing Qimage, but I am not certain of this.  That is why I will need to wait until I get home tonight to check that job log.  I agree it is a very useful tool.

Sorry to have mentioned something before I was certain of it, but I do not want to appear ungrateful by not responding promtply to your replies. 

As for the question regarding colorspace - I open all my files in PS before printing - and I always convert colorspace to Adobe RGB 1998.  BUT - I work with so many versions of the same image that it is possible that I may have missed this step, and I started doing this as a precaution after running a print on the Somerset and it came out muddy looking.  After reading the user guide I thought that might be the problem and went back to Qimage and did the override and it printed perfectly. So, this is just a precaution on my part - although it may be unnecessary.

I have never had it cause a problem before, but I am just a part timer and do not have a lot of experience with color space issues - so please tell me if there is some reason to stop doing this.

Thanks for your help.