Darin,
To be honest my profiled 1160 gives a much better red than my 2100, in fact as red as you could want, but I still think its a pretty poor printer for any smudgy type shots, yes I'm a food smudger as well. The 1160 bands to hell on these out of focus areas in neutral tones, so I have no option but not to use it for anything other than completely sharp product shots and landscapes.
The 2100 is vastly superior and I do like the Ultrachrome inks, apart from the cost of course, but it does lack the punchy reds of the 1160. You also mentioned an Iris, well dont be misled by the price tag, I've seen one first hand give all sorts of trouble over the course of a year, constantly shifting colour, numerous technician call outs and it eventually ended up in the skip, I kid you not !!!!!!!!!!
Have you tried printing an RGB target chart without applying a profile and send it through using the 'same as source' option on the print window, with no colour adjustment. In those reds on the chart will be the best reds that printer/ink/.paper combo can produce, BUT you will probably have to make a custom profile for that setup in order to achieve that red using colour management.
On Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at 03:18 PM, Darrin Jenkins wrote:
If you have profiles for both your monitor and printer/paper/ink and you still cant get the red you want it is probably out of gamut for that combo.
I've also tried adjusting saturation / selective colour whilst viewing the
file in proof colours again with no luck.
Regards,
Barry
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