Re: Profiling Epson 9,500 v 10,000
Re: Profiling Epson 9,500 v 10,000
- Subject: Re: Profiling Epson 9,500 v 10,000
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:05:15 EST
In a message dated 1/8/02 11:12:58 AM, email@hidden writes:
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Is the 9,500 much inferior to the 10,000 PIG for Photo Art printing
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- perhaps on Epson watercolour - perhaps on Epson Luster paper?
Yes, the 9500 does not have an reworked driver, so the color shift issue is
there full force.
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I've read of a lot of issues here with the 2000P [which even Epson
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seem to acknowledge is crappy - by refunding customers], and the 5500
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is said to be just as bad.
No, not nearly as bad, with the reworked driver. The dots on the 5500 are so
small that the black can be run way down into the light areas, allowing
massive color replacement with black ink, reducing color shifting
significantly.
We profiled a 7,500 for Epson watercolor
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stock [same ink set I guess] and it's a bit muted in colour [against
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Lyson's Fotonic inks],
Thats to be expected... if you could live with a hair more reduction of the
brightest colors, then a nonencapsulated pigment set such as MIS or
Generations 4 would do the trick, with very little color shift under changing
light sources.
plus there's the old <illuminant metamerism>
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issue when the two prints are compared under differing lighting.
Right, but there is a new 7500 driver to reduce this...
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Is the 9,500 as <bad> as the 7,500 on the Epson pigmented inks?
If you mean the old 7500 driver, identical, if you mean the new 7500 driver,
the 9500 would rate as much worse...
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I do appreciate that even the 10,000PIG with the improved black
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generation of the standard driver, is not capable of printing black
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and white satisfactorily.
Its not capable of printing B&W prints that will retain their neutrality
perfectly under drasticly different light sources... but if you eliminate
fluorescent from the list of sources, and perhaps north light, then the
remaining lighting from tungsten to daylight will be reasonably consisitant
with the 10000, 5500, or the 7500 with updated drivers.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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