Tony, your experience sounds just like mine. I also have an Epson photo
1200 and also have way too many hours and hundreds of test prints, but
have yet to produce what I consider to be an acceptable print using
custom profiles, either from WiziWYG or ProfilerRGB.
I have slowly been coming to the conclusion that perhaps some of my
problems are due to the ink set I am using, namely MIS 6-color dye
(non-archival). It certainly is not a close match to the Epson 1200
cartridges, and maybe a big part of the profiling problem is at the
crossover between the normal and light versions of cyan and magenta.
But I have difficulty believing that this potential problem explains
why I get severe oscillation between blue-purple and blue-green at
nearly saturated blues with ProfilerRGB.
I have also read reports that the 2000.5 version of WiziWYG's IT8
target did not really match the data file given for it -- guess which
one I own. Bingo!
I would like to know what you've been using -- perhaps we can help
solve each other's problems. How do you feel about spending another
couple of hundred hours chasing your tail?
Here's my setup:
Epson Stylus Photo 1200
MIS 6-color dye inkset, about 9 months old
Windows 98se
Epson Expression 636 flatbed scanner
UMAX PowerLook III flatbed scanner
ProfilerRGB and PhotoCal spyder
WiziWYG
The paper I've been focusing on is Epson Photo Paper, glossy finish,
part number S041141 here in the USA. I don't know what the
corresponding number is for the same paper that's cut to European
standard paper sizes.
--Dana
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From: Tony Sleep <TonySleep@halftone.co.uk>
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Custom ICC printer profiles
Date: Friday, August 10, 2001 3:00 AM
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:01:05 -0400 Alan Eckert (aeckert@cpcug.org)
wrote:
> Forgive this somewhat OT post, but I've done an IT8 calibration with
=
> Silverfast on my SS4000 and I like what I see on the screen (it
matches =
> the slides well), but I can't trust what comes out of the 1270
printer =
> to look like what's on the screen.
I have wasted maybe 100hrs mucking about with profiles and stuff on a
1200,
read shedloads, tried the various things Ian Lyons suggests, and got
nowhere. All I have to show for it is 200+ rotten test prints. Not one
was
acceptable.
Apart from anything else I came to the conclusion that CM within the
Epson
driver is completely broken. So Pixl or any other profiles are not
likely
to help me. The 1270 may be better.
A couple of months ago I gave up with all the autopilot approaches, and
set
about merely doing manual adjustments in the printer driver (CMY,
saturation, contrast). This has worked far, far better than anything
else :
prints are now as close to the screen image as is possible within the
limits of a different gamut. And it's free.
Regards
Tony Sleep
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