Because there is such a wide variation in colors that individual desktop printers give you....you may come very close in the reds, but have an olive where you are hoping to get a vivid green....or vice versa....you could get a shade of purple, where you were hoping for red. Depends on the printer and on the price you paid for your printer.
Regardless of what Epson says, the 3000 is one of the lousiest color-matching machines made. We use them at work....because, out of the box, they do come, sort of, close. And the people we are proofing with, have the pantone chip to see what the color is "really" going to be.
Low-priced "photo" quality printers, regardless of how many ink tanks they come with, are not. (photo-quality).
When I say low priced, I mean anything that costs under about $2,000 US. If you want true photo-quality, hi-8 color, and want to spend a bit of time with a high-end pre-press house, building an ICC profile, look to the Roland Hi-Fi CMYKOG, wide format printers.
You WILL end up paying the same for a modestly equipped Land Rover, however.
Bill
On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 01:20 AM, Ellie Kennard wrote:
You're right, we were talking two different languages! They just pretended to understand me.
They don't have a clue. Doesn't matter, though, as I will print off a copy as I want it to be and they said they'll try to get it right. It is just brochures for my own business, so I can't afford to have thousands printed at this point.
No problem.
Ellie
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