Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug- Have you had much experience with the CIS? I had seriously considered it because of the high cost of ink cartridges. Since I have gotten some calibration software, and a monitor colorimeter, I am getting more and more comfortable doing my own profiles- and since I pretty much stick to Epson's Heavyweight Matte, It's pretty straightforward and not too onerous to do them. Thanks for your input. Dan. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 2:58 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] coloor inkjet photo printing - current choices? > on 3/5/04 11:29 PM, Sam Krneta at skrneta@mindspring.com wrote: > > > Doug, > > > > Is this a plug and play type system? Is there much trouble installing on the > > Epson? I have an 1160, and they make a system for it but I'm concerned about > > the installation. > > > > Sam > > > > Sam, > > The installation can be as easy or as difficult as you want. I'm starting > with the pre-filled ink cartriges, which simply replace the OEM ink > cartriges. Cleaning the old inks out is often nessesary when changing ink > types; the cleaning involves replacing an ink cartrige with a cleaning > cartrige and running several cleaning cycles. > > If you want a more difficult installation you can set up a continuous inking > system with large ink bottles supplying cartriges via flexible tubes. This > can save quite a bit of money at the expense of additional setup work and > trouble-shooting. > > Media Street supplies many printing profiles and will create custom profiles > for the particular printer/ink/paper combination you want to use. They also > have instructions for using the profiles and specific printer driver > settings for optimal results. In practice I've found the profiles to be > pretty good but not perfect. I had to tweak the colors a bit to get optimal > prints. I did the tweaks as a Photoshop Curves adjustment layer, saving the > adjustment layer for re-use on other images. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html