I have recently purchased a new LaCie 324 LCD monitor, and have it calibrated with the LaCie Blue Eye Pro that came with the monitor.  I had a custom printer profile made right after I purchased the monitor.  Prints have been fine till last night.  I calibrated the monitor just before printing, and calibration numbers almost identical to last calibration.  Everything looked normal till the print came off the printer.  (Epson 2200).  The red jerseys came out orange.

I have gone thru all my settings in both printer driver and Qimage, and everything looks normal.  I am not double profiling.

The jerseys look red in every program I open, including Qimage.  After the prints came off the printer, I did a Soft Proof, and there the jerseys show up orange.  They show up red in the Qimage thumbnails, in the preview, in Nikon View, ViewNX, CS3 and ACR.  I’m stumped on this one.  I don’t feel I can send these to the customer.  I can’t begin to figure out what is happening.  Any ideas?

While reading your post, I immediately thought printer clogs, but when I finished, I have to agree with Terry.
Here's a simple test.
See attached snap.... open the color management box in Qimage, and check on the icon, dead center, right side. Hovering the mouse pointer shows a balloon that offers, Let Printer Manage color.
As you can see I already set that button and now the printer profile has changed to the correct one for that Let Printer manage color selection.
Also, please set your printer driver to ICM, not No Color Management.

Make a print.
It should be very close to perfect... if so that tells you that either your driver settings were off or your profile is off.
BTW, just to simplify, your monitor profile has no bearing on the print. Only if you used the image on the screen to radically change the colors of the image.
Otherwise, your monitor profile can be on or off and it makes no difference.
BTW 2   Please make a test print. That eliminates a lot of guessing. Soft proofing does use both printer profile and monitor profile.
Thanks

Fred

I'm confused! In your first post, you say "Everything looked normal till the print came off the printer.  (Epson 2200).  The red jerseys came out orange." This would indicate that the monitor was correct and the prints were wrong.

Then you say, in the same post, "The jerseys look red in every program I open, including Qimage.  After the prints came off the printer, I did a Soft Proof, and there the jerseys show up orange.  They show up red in the Qimage thumbnails, in the preview, in Nikon View, ViewNX, CS3 and ACR." This would indicate the monitor is now wrong as well as the print.

Then you say you tried Fred's solution and the prints came out green but the monitor soft proof looked OK. Am I correct so far?

If so, there are at least two possible problems. I would look first at the profile. You don't state why you installed a "custom printing profile" but since you are using Epson paper, just download their standard profile and see if anything improves. If not, I would look at an inking problem, such as a clogged nozzle or two.

If neither works, try printing out of one of your other programs and see what happens. That would help isolate where the problem is. I'm suspecting your 2200 driver settings and/or profile...

Yes.


I purchased a custom profile because the canned Epson profiles gave a green tint to all of my prints, which I was able to fix manually before printing, as it was consistent.  The custom profile put an end to that, except for these red jerseys I’m trying to print.


Checking for clogged nozzles with the 2200 is automatic before printing.  There are no clogged nozzles.

One more question too, are you using Epson Inks, sounds obvious but trying to cover everything 
Terry.

I just downloaded the Epson profiles on your behalf for the semi gloss paper.
There were two.
One is for the 1440 dpi setting and the other for the 2880 dpi setting.
Regardless, it should be one of those two lower ones.
The driver gets set to NO COLOR ADJUSTMENT.

See the attached screen snap.

What was the name of the driver you used, and then discarded as no good? I am really anxious to hear the answer to what ink you use.

Fred

I’m unaware of discarding a driver.      

re: "Using latest Driver from Epson, and it’s several years old.  Too tired to look it up.  It is set to ICM, No Color Adjustment, and the proper paper is selected.  I’ve had the 2200 and Qimage for several years.  I certainly know the basics."

I don't believe you can select both "ICM" and "No Color Management" at the same time. Select ONLY "No Color Management".

You also may have a corrupted driver. It might be worth the time to remove the driver and reinstall the latest version on the Epson site for your OS. Just do a search on "2200" and select the first item it brings up.