Re: Problems profiling Epson 5500
Re: Problems profiling Epson 5500
- Subject: Re: Problems profiling Epson 5500
- From: Juris Valdmanis <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:50:23 +0300
Hi Jim and thanks for your response.
actually problem is not with small gamut of printer or paper (paper we use
is Epson Premium Semigloss Photo Paper, Epson's recommended for 5500 and
pigmented inks), but in color changes under different lightning. We had a
lot of clients and they are looking on printouts under different lightning
and that is why these printouts are not proof capable.
Maybe I'm not right? Maybe someone has very good results with this paper &
printer combination?
Juris
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From: Jim Rich <email@hidden>
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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 11:16:32 -0400
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To: Juris Valdmanis <email@hidden>
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Cc: <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Problems profiling Epson 5500
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On 10/8/01 10:13 AM, "Juris Valdmanis" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Hello.
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> After a couple attempts to profile our Epson 5500 (with original Epson inks
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> and papers) I ended up with very poor printouts. Yes, printouts change
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> color under different lightning (it's metamerism issue). I have been
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> reading colorsync list about a year now, and there was a lot of discussion
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> about metamerism. I remember that changing paper and/or inks could solve
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> this problem.
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> Maybe someone can point me which papers and/or inks is better to use with
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> Epson 5500 to reduce metamerism? Also I am in Europe, so it will be
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> difficult and very expensive to order from US.
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> Best regards
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> Juris
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Juris,
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This is just a guess based on a similar experience I had with the Epson
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printers and pigmented inks.
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If you are achieving a small color gamut with your Epson ink and paper
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combination the first place you should look for a problem is with the
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paper. Make sure you are printing on Epson brand paper made for your
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printer. If you are not using the correct paper that was made for pigment
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ink printers you will get very poor results. For example saturated colors
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such as reds print as orange. I do not have a list here of the correct Epson
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papers but there are many that will work with your printer and give you very
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good results. You should contact your local Epson dealer.
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Jim Rich