Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Epson 9800 and Museo Max

I have now completed the best possible target printout for the Museo 
Max paper (after trying every possible combination.   The final 
settings were Enhanced Matte media settings, entering a 0.5 mm 
thickness, and -10 Color Density.

The targets still are not spectacular.

Comparing the resulting profile to the generic profile for Museo 9800 
provided by Crane shows that the Crane generic profile has a 50% 
wider gamut that the ColorVision one I just produced.

I am suspicious (as I have been for a little while) that the Epson 
9800 may be the problem and we may have gotten a bad printer.

Or maybe since I don't know the first thing about profiling except 
what I have crammed in the last few days, I am missing something 
obvious.  We have tried every media setting and other setting change 
possible printing out the media test image.  We have also printed 
numerous targets and compared.

Head alignments and nozzle checks have been part of the proces.

1.  Should there be such a differemce between the generic Museo 
profile provided by Crane and the one I am making?

2.  Trying to profile an Epson 10000 simultaneousy, we get targets 
that have a better differentiation on the 10000 than on the 9800. 
Does that indicate a problem with the 9800?