Eye-one Photo and blocked shadows on Epson 1270
Eye-one Photo and blocked shadows on Epson 1270
- Subject: Eye-one Photo and blocked shadows on Epson 1270
- From: Edmund Ronald <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 05:17:37 +0200 (CEST)
Hi List,
After lurking here for a couple of years I gave in and bought an EyeOne
Photo package. I started by profiling my Epson 1270 with Photo Paper,
using the 2-page i1 Match targets. The resulting profile is giving me
strongly blocked shadows (eg. dark hair detail is gone). The canned Epson
profile has slightly better shadow detail, and acolorcast which my
custom profile has avoided. The blocked shadows also show up as Gamut
warnings in PS7.
I believe am doing something wrong, the software and printer cannot be
that bad, and Gretag has a reputation for quality.
I have been printing from PS7, using the Print with Preview dialog,
document space Nikon Adobe RGB, Print space my own profile, perceptual or
relative rendering, with all color management options turned off in the
later print dialog.
Should I stop using Print with Preview ?
Should I cut down on the ink being laid down by changing media types to
something like glossy film.?
Should I try a different profiling package eg. Print3c from BasicColor ?
Should I retire the printer ASAP ?
On a related note, On both my Powerbooks my EyeOne unit intermittently
fails to calibrate for ambient light (with the cap on the translucent
head), but it passes diagnostics.and standard white-tile calibration .
Because of this failure I shall have to take the unit back for repair,
Has anyone else on the list encountered this issue? If I had not tested
the ambient light feature on a whim I would never have noticed ...
Edmund
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