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- [Instructor] Hi, I'm Sean Duggan. And this week on mobile photography weekly, we're going to take a look at the Epson Print Layout App that allows you to print directly from your iPhone or your iPad. This is a free app that is currently only available for iOS. And at the present time, it only works when printing to the Epson SureColor P700 and P900 printers which are both relatively newer models that were released in the summer and fall of 2020. Let's open up the app and check it out. The first thing to do is load an image. So I'm going to tap on the little plus image icon down in the lower left, and I'll go out to my camera roll, and I'll choose this photograph that I took in Bar Harbor, Maine. Next, I'll tap on the printer settings icon which is that one right next to the star. And this is where I can see that my SureColor P700 printer is connected. I can tap on that. I can check the ink levels, getting kind of low but I think I have enough to make this print. And if you were using the app for the very first time, this is where you would come to connect the app to your printer via WiFi. Next, I'll change the media type. I had been printing on regular glossy photo paper, but this time, I'm going to choose Ultra Premium Photo Paper Luster because that's what I have set up in my printer. And I need to change the paper size. I was making some small four by sixes, but this time I'm going to make a letter size print. Now, let me clarify that I've already made these exact same settings in terms of media type and paper size over on the Epson P700 printer. In terms of paper source, that set correctly for what I have on the printer. And in terms of quality, I'm just going to leave it set to standard for now. Next, I'm going to tap on the layout settings which is right next to the printer settings. And we have a range of options here in this menu. The main thing that I'm concerned with, is I want to make sure that the centering is set to center. I do want to have my image centered on the page. And then in terms of layout, I have two options I can choose. I can use image size, which allows me to specify an exact image size. So if I come down here, to the width and height sliders, you can see, I can adjust these and change these to be an exact amount if I wanted the image to be a specific size on the paper. And I can fine tune the size with the plus or minus buttons. The other thing I can do, is I can come back up to layout and I can set it to margin. And this is what I would use if I wanted to have a very specific margin size. So for this, I have sliders for top left, bottom and right. And if I adjust the right slider, everything is going to move in tandem. And so, I could set this up to make sure that I had a margin of, let's say, an inch and a quarter on the left and the right side. And then the height would be whatever it happened to be. Actually, that looks pretty good. I think I'm going to leave it set to that. In terms of margin color, I'm not going to change that. I'm pretty much a traditionalist. I do like to have that nice white border. So I'll leave that alone and I'm not going to do anything with the image aspect ratio setting. Next, I'll tap on the icon for the color settings, which is those three overlapping circles. And I'll open up the type menu. Here, I can choose to use an ICC profile. I can have the printer manage the colors or I can choose the advanced black and white photo mode. Now, in terms of ICC profile, what this is referring to, is the type of Epson paper that I have already specified both here in the print layout app and over on my actual printer. In this case, that was Ultra Premium Photo Paper Luster. So that is the ICC profile that's going to be used. So this app really works best if you're using Epson papers. You could of course try to use a different paper. So, for instance, I might try to use a Hahnemuhle, fine art paper but what I would have to do, is choose the type of Epson paper that I thought was the closest match for the Hahnemuhle paper surface. And then I'd have to, of course, do test to see if it worked out. In this case, I'm just going to leave this set to use ICC profile. I'll tap the back button. Next, we have settings for rendering intent and black point compensation. These are really geeky color management settings that most people don't need to worry about. But, if you are a geeky color management person and you know what these are and what they do, then these settings are here for you. If you have no idea what these are referring to, I recommend leaving rendering intent set to perceptual and black point compensation set to off. There's a crop tool. If you want to apply a crop, just tap on the image to get the crop tool to appear but you can only crop it in a proportional manner. And in this case, I don't want to crop the image. I think it looks good. So, I'll cancel that and I'll tap the crop tool again, just so we can see the image full frame. If I tap on the star icon over on the left, I have access to the presets and here I can either use a preset that I have already saved such as that one for four by six glossy photo paper or I can tap the plus button to create a new preset based on the current settings. I'll tap on the color settings icon again, to close that. And now I'm ready to tap print and send it to the printer. You know, when I first heard about printing directly to my Epson printer from my iPhone or iPad, I questioned the need for this because I was just so used to printing from my computer using either Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop. And obviously, there is still a very good reason for that type of printing workflow, especially, if you need maximum control over the details in the image. But from my own experience with the Epson print layout app, my Epson P700 printer and Epson papers, I found that if you have a good mobile image, it always results in excellent prints and it's a very appealing way to make prints just because it's so fast and easy to do it from the iPhone or the iPad.
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