[Leica] odd problem with Epson 2400 and 4800

[jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)]

Brian,

When I open the JPEG in Photoshop CS2 is has the profile  
HFA2400PhotoRagMK attached to it. Is that what you want?

I suspect that you are running the print through the colorspace  
converter twice.

What I generally do is select an output profile, manually "convert to  
profile ..." and then tell the epson driver not to do anything (I  
trust PS to properly convert the colorspace better than Epson's  
drivers for some reason :-)

If you do that *and* if what you see on the screen is not what you  
see on the paper then there is a problem with the printer profiles.

I also note that on my calibrated monitor, the original image's skin  
has some blotchy areas of magenta (though not nearly as pronounced as  
the scanned 2400 print).

Jonathan

On Jun 17, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Brian Reid 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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