Mirage Products

Mirage Master Edition v10 for Epson

Supports the following printers: Epson Stylus Pro 3800, 3800c, 3880, 3890, 4000, 4800, 4450, 4800, 4880, 4880c, 4900, 4910, 7600, 7700, 7710, 7800, 7880, 7880c, 7890, 7900, 7908, 7910, 9600, 9700, 9710, 9800, 9880, 9880c, 9890, 9900, 9910, 11880, 11880c, Epson Stylus Photo R2880 & Epson Stylus Photo R3000

Mirage 17" Edition v10 for Epson

Supports the following printers: Epson Stylus Pro 3800, 3800c, 3880, 3890, 4000, 4800, 4450, 4800, 4880, 4880c, 4900, 4910

Mirage Pro Extension

Extension to create professional ICC profiles with the following printers (uses the Epson Spectroproofer device)Epson Stylus Pro 4900, 4910, 7890, 7900, 7908, 7910, 9890, 9900 and 9910

Mirage Small Studio Edition v10 for Epson

Supports the following printers:
Epson Stylus Photo R 2880 & Epson Stylus Photo R3000

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Mirage Versions

1.6.3
FIXED Mirrored borders were not shown correctly for cropped images in the preview, printing was not affected.
FIXED when using "Duplicate Medium" with an original medium in the custom media panel, the ICC files were not made available for the new media type.
FIXED Random InDesign crashes during or after opening the Mirage dialog. Especially version CS5.5 was affected.
FIXED When going back in the profile creation wizard, changing the printer, then going forward without further changes, resulted in a wrong measurement chart size.
FIXED Preferences sometimes became corrupted and prevented Mirage from launching.
FIXED In rare cases the "Quality" menu was empty until printer or media type was changed.
CHANGED Media groups are now listed at the top, before single media types entries, both in the custom media list and the media type menu.
FIXED Bleed wasn't calculated correctly for PDFs that contained rotated pages.

1.6.2

•FIXED Photoshop crashed on Windows, when a new document that had never been saved to disk, was opened with Mirage
•FIXED In rare cases when an image was rotated 270 degrees and overlapped the page, wrong spooling caused the Queue Monitor to be stuck very soon after printing started
•CHANGED Stylus Pro 4900 now supports borderless for 17" width on all sources, and on roll also 8" and 11"

1.6.1

•FIXED There was a problem with getting the document file path in Photoshop under Windows,
resulting in empty job label print marks
•CHANGED Epson Stylus Photo R2880 and R3000 now use 3mm bottom print margins whenever possible
•FIXED Epson Stylus Photo R2880 front loading top margin was incorrect (3mm instead of 2cm)
•CHANGED "13 inch" roll size is now called "13 in / 12.95 in" and has size 12.95 inch

1.6.0

• ADDED Support for Adobe CS 5.5
• ADDED Images can be cropped by value or interactively within Mirage now
• ADDED Mirage optimize the placement of images and pages for you once you finished your settings
• ADDED New checkbox "Print finest details" doubles input resolution (useful for vector formats, like AI, ID, PDF)
• ADDED Support for Hahnemühle Gallerie Wrap stretcher bars
• ADDED A new set of crop marks to the "Print Marks" Area
• ADDED Photo-Black now supported to print to matte media
• ADDED Support for double cut mode
• ADDED One or more custom media can now be exported into a mediapkg.zip, and re-imported elsewhere
Further Information can be found here

1.5.3

• FIXED WT7900 loaded white ink from tanks, even when "No White Ink" was selected for print
• FIXED Media packages could not be installed from Zip files on Windows
• FIXED Borderless modes for 9600/7600 printers didn't work properly

1.5.2

• FIXED Measurement of profile charts could fail when printed to sheet media, unless the measurement step was executed separately from print.
• FIXED In rare occasions, errors during profile chart print/measurement could cause a crash

1.5.1

• FIXED Mouse scroll wheel works in print dialog settings panels on Mac
• FIXED Paper menus in existing stored settings were not updated without restart after custom media types were added in the settings dialog
• FIXED When updating to Mirage 1.5.x on Mac, 9800/7800/4800 printers did not function correctly unless a clean install instead of an update was performed
• FIXED Very long PDF documents were printed with small parts at top/bottom missing
• FIXED Media size in stored settings was initially not always taken from the current print dialog settings
• FIXED Selecting a predefined standard paper size did not always have an effect
• FIXED Problems with storing/restoring media group configuration on Windows with non-ASCII user folder paths
• FIXED In some situations a fine black line was printed between image and mirrored borders
• FIXED English online help was not English

1.4.1

• InDesign master spread items were not drawn or printed by Mirage 1.4.0. This has been corrected in this version. Only InDesign users profit from this update.

1.4.0

• ADDED Completely redone Mirage Queue Monitor, allowing pausing, prioritizing, and previewing jobs
• ADDED Support for parallel printing to multiple printers
• ADDED Support for Photoshop CS5, 32 bit on Mac
• ADDED Support for Photoshop CS5, 32 and 64 bit on Windows
• ADDED Support for InDesign CS5
• ADDED Mirage for Illustrator CS3/CS4/CS5 as part of Mirage Design Edition
• FIXED A long standing issue which could lead to slightly incorrect colors for certain images in InDesign documents
• FIXED Photoshop plugin crashed when opening images with extreme aspect ratios (like 100:1)
• FIXED Colored and mirrored borders were not shown correctly for rotation 0 and 180 in preview
• FIXED Spooling failed on Windows if non-ASCII characters were in the queue directory path
• FIXED Mirage Pro profile print and measuring now also works in 64-bit Photoshop version on Windows

Further informations can be found here

1.3.0

for details see here

1.2.4

ADDED Support for Epson Stylus Pro 3880/3890, 9700/9710/7700/7710

1.2.3

FIXED Potential crash of Mirage for Photoshop on Mac OS X, especially with VERY large image files
FIXED Automatic creation of ICC profiles could fail on Windows, if the path to the user directory contained non-ASCII characters
FIXED For certain media types the color patches for automatic ICC profile creation were printed in grayscale
FIXED Starting with Mac OS X 10.6, after opening the Mirage Photoshop plugin once, opening Photoshop files by double-click in the Finder, or per drag'n'drop failed until Photoshop was restarted. This is now fixed.

1.2.2

ADDED Support to print/measure/create profiles using the Stylus Pro 9900/7900 with SpectroProofer. This is a buyable add-on option and is not available for free.
ADDED Mirage now has its own crash handler, and tries to dump the state of crash for analysis and bug fixing.
ADDED advanced media settings like platen gap, paper suction, and others is now possible for custom media
FIXED Printing a grayscale image to an RGB printer using mirrored image borders resulted in very corrupt mirrored borders.
FIXED Printing an InDesign document larger than the available medium caused a distorted print result.
FIXED Prerelease versions wrongly considered older release versions as suitable updates and informed the user about it regularly.
FIXED Tab key did not work in "Advanced" panel of settings dialog.
FIXED Media settings dialog can no longer be quit with "OK" if some data was missing. This caused an exception and crash of Photoshop.
FIXED "Browse" buttons in custom media dialog expanded to fill the entire row height under Windows
FIXED Issues with recognizing a valid license, if it was installed in a file path that contained special characters like umlauts or accents
FIXED Using ICC Profiles with special characters like umlauts in their file path, failed under Windows
FIXED The "Mirage Print" menu entry did not show up in the InDesign keyboard shortcut editor
CHANGED License status in settings dialog is more detailed now.
CHANGED The license wizard dialog can now be used to install add-on feature licenses without overwriting the main license.
CHANGED Entries to the "Ideal sheet gap" textfield in the settings dialog, are copied directly to the "Minimum sheet gap" textfield, to prevent user errors.
CHANGED Settings dialog now stores its size and position, and restores it next time.

1.2.1

FIXED The print preview looked obviously wrong in gray print mode with gamma settings other than "Normal". Actual prints were not affected negatively by this issue.

1.2

ADDED Support for Epson Stylus Pro 4000 (Windows only)
ADDED Support for borderless printing
ADDED Page can be placed on the medium by dragging with the mouse. Guidelines labeled with distance to paper edge are drawn during this. The page snaps to special positions on the medium.
ADDED It is now possible to change the cropped content region in the page and print preview.
ADDED Support to print multiple copies of one Photoshop image. Gaps between the image rows and columns can be controlled in the Settings dialog.
ADDED Photoshop plugin now provides a new cut mode to cut after each row of copies.
ADDED A toggle button in the borders UI, which forces entered values to be made equal for all border fields
ADDED Print dialog now shows a warning icon whenever the image size exceeds the media size
ADDED Border styles Empty, Mirrored Image, and Mirrored Image (YouFrame)
ADDED Option to center image on page, even if print margins are asymmetrical
ADDED Complete Chinese localization
ADDED Photo format standard paper sizes to quick select popup menu
ADDED Support for Chinese Epson printer models Stylus Pro 9910/7910, 11880C, 9880C/7880C, 4880C, 3800C
ADDED Job title and other information is sent to the printer

CHANGED Print dialog now starts with 100% custom size, instead of fit to page
CHANGED The left hand size of the print dialog retains its size now even when the advanced pane is opened or closed. The dialog window also keeps its width then.
CHANGED Custom media dialog now checks ICC profile color space before accepting the profile, and shows a dialog notifying the user about the wrong color space.
CHANGED Image size exceeding the media size is now supported for Photoshop
CHANGED Page size exceeding the media size is now supported for InDesign except in the case of bleed area, for which we revert to the old behaviour of limiting the page size to the medium size.
CHANGED Software update check now recognizes a release version that is newer than a current pre-release version
CHANGED Renamed the previous "Center" option to "Center on printable area"
CHANGED Installing latest Adobe CMM version 1.1 on Windows now
CHANGED When selecting an ICC profile for a custom paper, it is automatically set for all quality modes which don't have a profile assigned yet
CHANGED Enabled microweaving in printer for Epson Stylus Pro 11880, 9900, 7900
CHANGED Improved quality of distributed ICC profiles for printers working in CMYK mode

FIXED License wizard mentioned 10 days trial license, while it's really 14 days
FIXED Print dialog was not be restored to original size, if it was previously exactly as big as the screen
FIXED It was possible that calibration bars were placed outside the medium, if rotation was active
FIXED Gray mode preview did not show neutral grays, while prints were neutral
FIXED Disabled soft proofing for Profile Creation mode preview
FIXED Disabled soft proofing for Gray mode preview
FIXED Potential crash in print dialog when no printers are available
FIXED Paper sizes US Legal and US Letter were mixed up
FIXED If a printer was unavailable due to lack of license or other issues, it could happen that it would be lost from the preferences
FIXED Mirage is now compatible with Adobe CMM 1.1
FIXED Gray mode print results did not match with the original Epson printer driver's
FIXED Entirely empty print bands caused a print abort

1.1.2

* FIXED Print marks missing on PowerPC Macs

1.1.1
FIXED Mac installer did not install profiles with very long names correctly on Mac OS X 10.4. This affected Epson Stylus Pro 4800, Epson Stylus Pro 9800/7800, Epson Stylus Pro 9600/7600 and very few papers for Epson Stylus Pro 11880 and Epson Stylus Pro 9900/7900

FIXED A missing profile would not disable the "Normal" print mode, and could cause a crash of the host application when trying to print
1.1.0
ADDED Support for Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Mac and Windows
ADDED Support for Adobe Photoshop 7, CS on Windows
ADDED Support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 on Mac and Windows
ADDED Support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 on Windows
ADDED Support for Epson Stylus Photo R2880 for Mirage Master Edition
FIXED Issues with installation of Photoshop CS4 plugin on Windows Vista 64bit

1.0.4

FIXED 4800/7800/9800 printers on Mac were not available
FIXED print preview did not show correct colors when using media with custom profiles

1.0.3

FIXED windows mirage installer showed an empty line as possible plugin install destination if Photoshop CS3 was previously installed and later uninstalled
FIXED an issue that could cause image errors when printing centered on sheet media
FIXED Mirage for Windows now checks reliably if the Adobe CMM is installed and warns the user if it isn't CHANGED updated Windows HTMs for printers Epson Stylus Pro 11880/9880/7880/4880/9800/7800/4800/3800

1.0.2

ADDED Gamma value selection when printing in Gray mode
ADDED support for Stylus Pro 7900/9900 on Mac
ADDED support for Stylus Pro 3800 on Mac with RGB HTMs
ADDED support for InDesign CS4
ADDED language support for French, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese

FIXED print marks did not extend around borders
FIXED Photoshop Bitmap mode images were printed inverse
FIXED Photoshop Gray mode images were sometimes printed with ghost images of themselves overlayed
FIXED additional white borders at the end of a roll print were not "printed"
FIXED switching between sheet sources retains the sheet size even when margins are changing
FIXED switching between roll and sheet sources retains the image size
FIXED memory leaks

CHANGED Installer now installs the Adobe CMM
CHANGED Installer is now localized
CHANGED custom media type profiles are now copied to the per-user profiles directory and not the global mirage profiles directory

1.0.0

First public release, distributed at Photokina.