So I've got this awesome 4 year old dye-sub printer, an Olympus P-400. It works great on my PC. But I just got it printing on my mac with gimp-print and the color is alllll bad. It looks like muddy green waste was dumped all over it. Everything's this washed out green color.

I have this issue on the PC with B&W prints, but it's easily fixed by changing the green gamma in the Olympus driver.

I've downloaded a free P-400 profile that I've successfully used on windows, but it seemed to have little effect on the mac.

I've tried dicking with it in Photoshop to try and come up with a recipe that looks okay under mac printing, but I never get far and each print is costing $2 a pop... so I'm reluctant to just keep trying.

Really I just need solution that I can replicate, either in the form of a Photoshop script or a working .icc profile that fixes it.

I figured since I bought the printer on a recommendation of a posting here several years ago, and since you guys are the greatest bunch of folks I'd post my problem here.

I've seen several software calibration solutions, but these require a decent flatbed scanner. I've got a slide scanner, and a digital camera, but no flatbed. I could buy one cheap, but a cheap scanner would probably make the created profile more screwed up than the way it is now.

I've seen only one software/hardware solution ... the Pantone PrintFix ... you presumably print one of their test images, then run it through their own scanner do-hicky for analysis ... sounds awesome, but so is the price ... $300-$400 ....

Questions for you guys:

Does anyone here have a printer calibration solution for my printer/setup?
Does anyone have the PrintFix solution that I could rent from them?
Does anyone have the PrintFix solution that I could mail a test image to in exchange for a profile?
Does anyone have any other solutions that I'm not considering.

Thanks for any input!

Greg