[Leica] odd problem with Epson 2400 and 4800

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Okay - a few questions about how you printed.

Were you using the Epson drivers or a RIP?

How did  you have the ColorSync settings adjusted for this image? To
me it looks like what happens when the wrong settings are made in the
driver so it's trying to do color correction instead of using the
color profiles for the output media.

I normally print with ImagePrint these days but it looks painfullly
like some of my experiences until I got the sttings ironed out.
Unfortunately I'm writing this on PowerBook whose only driver is for
an old Epson 870 so I can't cite chaper and verse here to point you at
the right places - but I vividly remember how one single check-box did
me in.

Hope this helps.

Adam

On 6/17/06, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
> Last week I posted a portrait of Joyce and Otto here. Joyce wanted a print 
> of it, so I went to print it on my Epson R2400, and the print was 
> unusable. Big areas of her eye and cheek looked like they had huge amounts 
> of rouge spread on them--blobs of solid color. I printed it on Hahnemuehle 
> Photo Rag smooth
>
> I took the print and the image file into Keeble and Shuchat and asked for 
> their help. The chap was pretty scornful ("it looks like this had a JPEG 
> original; no wonder you can't get a good print") but, scornful or not, he 
> did take the time to help me. He printed it on their Epson R4800 on Epson 
> Premium Luster paper and got more or less the same results, though not 
> quite so pronounced.
>
> I left Keeble and Shuchat and went to the Long's Drug nearby, and put the 
> same CD into the Long's kiosk, and printed an 8x10 on their Fuji Frontier. 
> An excellent print, showing none of the artifacts that had ruined the 
> Epson print. So I know that it /can/ be printed, even if it's not a 
> perfect negative.
>
> Here's the image:
>         http://reid.org/brian/misc/JoyceOttoMay2006crop2diag.jpg
> Here's a low-res scan of what it looks like printed on my R2400:
>         http://reid.org/brian/misc/R2400-scanned.jpg
>
> It's a close-up from the original image, enlarged to emphasize the problem.
>
> If you have a good inkjet printer that is NOT an Epson, would you be 
> willing to print this image and tell me if the print has the same defect 
> on your printer?
>
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