You'll learn. Epson eats money. Instead of buying cartridges why don't you just burn twenty dollar bills.
Don Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bojidar Dimitrov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PDML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:09 AM Subject: HELP: Monitor/Printer color matching > Hi, > > I need help from the experts of digital printing!!! > > Some time ago I had some slides scanned, recently I bought a > photo-printer (Epson Photo 810), and tonight I produced my first two > prints. This is all new to me, but I am not at all happy with the first > results... > > Here is what I did: > > 1. I calibrated my monitor (using Colorific, a software that came with > my video card and a funny plastic/rubber piece that one sticks onto the > monitor). > > 2. Installed the printer driver, and rebooted. Colorific complained > that the default printer does not have the color-matching feature turned > on, so after lots of looking in the printer-driver settings, I found it > and activated it. Now Colorific is happy. > > 3. I played a bit with a couple of TIFF images, manipulated the color, > brightness and contrast a bit, until they looked good on the screen. > > 4. Printed them out. The resulting images have nothing to do with what > I see on my monitor. They are substantially darker and with much more > yellow than on the screen. Other than the colors, I am VERY happy with > the results... > > 5. When printing, the print dialog shows the tint level in the > cartriges. After printing two full-page DIN A4 (almost the same as US > 8.5x11"), 20% of the ink is gone. Are the supplied cartridges with a > much smaller capacity than those that I see in the sctores (relatively > large cardboard boxes, 5-ink cartrige for Epson Photo 810, cost about > EUR 30 = US $30. > > I would very thankful for your comments/suggestions/ideas. > > Thanks in advance, > Boz > > -- > _\\|//_ Imagination is more important than knowledge... > 0(` O-O ')0 A. Einstein > ===ooO=(_)=Ooo======================================================= > Bojidar D. Dimitrov author and editor, Pentax K-Mount web page > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kmp.BDimitrov.de/ > ===================================================================== > <__> <__> >
