> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Evening > Sent: March 17, 2003 3:12 AM > > I gather that you are printing to the heavyweight matte > paper. This is > strange and my experience is this. I have used the heavyweight matte
She was using Enhanced Matte for these prints. > paper on the 1290 and the 1290 inks (which are different) and it is > quick drying and the colour is pretty much correct as soon as the > printer spits it out. When I use premium glossy, the shadow tones are > noticeably green at first and I will normally allow the print to dry > for several hours before making an evaluation. Is it at all possible > that the print colours are being judged too soon - are you > allowing the > prints to fully dry first? I have also read of chemical contamination When I dropped by her studio, she had dozens of the identical print, all with slightly different settings that she had tried with Epson support on the phone. They had been drying for days by that point. > that can rapidly affect a print. Like the story of a photographer who > left an inkjet print on a pillow and chemicals in the pillow > turned the > print yellow in a matter or hours! Was there anything unusual > about the > way the prints were being stored? Nope. I took some of the samples I printed while at her studio, and stored them on a table top in my studio. The prints I did on my in-house setup look glorious (7600), hers look horrific. Could it be Epson has a St. Patrick's day egg in their 2200 driver that's causing the green shift? :) I've asked her to give Carl's method a try: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/2200-bw.s html Seems counter-intuitive, however... Failing that, I'll build her a custom profile and go from there. It's just unfortunate that this kind of thing happens all the time. Photographers turn to digital and then run in to a wall of problems they never thought they'd have to deal with. Cheers, Derek Cooper www.derekcooper.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
