Re: Epson 2200 Help!
Re: Epson 2200 Help!
- Subject: Re: Epson 2200 Help!
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:53:00 -0400
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I'm rapidly losing hair on this one...
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I had a perfect setup on Windows XP with my 2200; my monitor was profiled
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with a Spyder & PhotoCAL, I was successfully softproofing in Photoshop to
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Epson-supplied profiles (the latest ones on their website) and my prints
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(all on Enhanced Matte) were so close to my screen that it took at least 5
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minutes to find a difference. In a word, as close to perfect as I can
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conceive.
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That was then, this is now: I sold the PC and bought a G5 (running Panther
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with all updates installed) and an 23" Cinema Display (not the new aluminum
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one). Profiled the display with the Spyder & PhotoCAL, hooked up the 2200,
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removed the GIMP-Print drivers, downloaded the Epson profiles and latest
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drivers and disabled Colorsync in the driver. Softproofing is A-OK... *BUT*
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the prints are significantly off. There appears to be way too much yellow
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being laid down - for instance, peaches are turning orange.
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I've F'd around for over a week now playing with Color Density settings and
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whatever else I could find in the driver and tried adjustment layers in
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Photoshop but it's getting stupid. I finally downloaded a demo of
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ImagePrint, having read good things here and elsewhere, and the prints were
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perfect again.
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So here's the question: am I domed to spend another $700 Canadian (which I
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don't have after buying the G5) on ImagePrint in order to successfully
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print, or is there something I'm missing that I can try with the equipment I
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already have (please say there is!!!!). I'm rather surprised that just
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switching platforms would cause such a shift in printed output; it makes me
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think Colorsync - or something else - is playing a factor. Then again, maybe
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Epson wrote the Mac drivers differently...?
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Many thanks in advance,
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Matt
Boy, do I feel your pain.
I don't know. I don't think the difference is all that great. But you could
have been using weird settings in Windows all along and that was Nirvana.
But that all vanished the moment you crossed into Jobs's land.
I don't suppose you still have your old PC system to compare the rendering
of you ACD?
As for ImagePrint, all I can say is, yes, it's definetely worth it,
regardless of platform. But you can always watch for it on eBay. I remember
seeing a brand new package for the 2200 being sold not tool long ago for USD
125.
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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