On 16/3/03 11:32 pm, Nick Tresidder wrote:
> A lot of people suffered from Magenta casts with these printers. The
> problem seems to relate to driver settings, where images were getting
> colour managed twice. Here is a link that may help:
>
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/2200-bw.shtml
Thanks, Nick, for that link. I've been to the site before and have raved
about it to fellow members. Hadn't clicked on the link for the 2200 (I may
have when the printer first came out but not lately...).
Anyway, I bought some Small Gamut inks from Marrut and Tetnal glossy paper
from Mwords with the intention of printing contacts. I was intending to have
my 1290 profiled at some stage but thought the prints would be good enough
for contacts. I chose the canned profiles and the 'recommended' settings and
tried a few variations, as you do. Unsurprisingly, all produced a cast.
I just tried the method on the Luminous Landscape site and the cast has
gone! I never would've thought of choosing the PostScript Color Management
setting but it seems to work. The prints aren't neutral but a 100%
improvement as far as the cast goes.
They show a slight, sepia toning in the mid to shadow areas. Looking at a 22
step wedge, the whites and blacks are clean though I can _just_ about
distinguish between step one and 2 on the shadow end. The black and white
chips at the two ends are clean.
Thing is, I have here some prints sent to me by Marrut and I would say the
one I just ran off using Luminous Landscape's settings produced a more
neutral looking print.
For example, looking at Richard Ingle's 'Font at East Meon,' it has a
distinctly faint green cast. Also, I can see some sepia/bronze in the
mid-shadow tones. The whites are clean but he doesn't have any real black
blacks - the wooden table's shadow side is almost black but not quite, I can
see a faint sepia/magenta cast in the shadow and the wooden beams and it's
easily seen in the pillar on the right: top half's faint sepia while the
bottom half's a faint green. I'm no color expert but I would say the mids,
blacks and whites are clean while the mid to white lean towards green and
the mid to black towards magenta.
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