Help with Profiling EPSON 1290 needed
Help with Profiling EPSON 1290 needed
- Subject: Help with Profiling EPSON 1290 needed
- From: Boris Oicherman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:58:17 +0200
Dear List
I just tried to profile the new EPSON 1290 printer, with no success: I got
something pretty strange with quite tiny gamut...
The printer is going to print color & BW photos from PhotoShop 6.0 on EPSON
Archival Matte paper, WIN 2K, currently no rip purchasing is planned.
Profiling with Monaco Profiler & SpectroScan.
I'm totally new in ink-jet printers profiling, so I have some basic
questions:
1. Since the printer's driver makes the color conversion to 6 colors, I'm
not quite sure whether should I profile it as RGB or CMYK device? If it's
CMYK, how the additional light colors issue comes into account? What are the
suggested driver settings for targets printing?
2. I had a look at the EPSON's profile that came with the driver - it's
gamut looks enormous for CMYK printer, something like Adobe RGB. Somebody
can explain this phenomena? How I suppose to configure the soft proofing
settings in PS for different papers if I have only one "generic" profile?
3. I found in the list archives some discussion on BW printing on ink-jet
printers, and the summary was that it's quite problematic because of 1) way
the driver separates colors (skeleton black), 2) metamerism (which is
actually connected to the first one). Did any progress happen since there?
Any new solutions? Is there is any way to "bypass" or change the driver
settings?
4. Just in case: can somebody recommend an inexpensive CMS RIP for such a
printer?
I appreciate any help in advance
regards
Boris