On Dec 17, 2008, at 7:55:23 PM, zaxman94611 wrote:
Are the print engines in the All-in-one units clearly inferior to the stand alone printers ?
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Historically, these printers have been built on the same engines as the letter/A4 size Epson desktop printers, and offered identical results.
A neighbor has one and was getting terrible prints, greens were going brown and skys were washing out. I thought I'd be able to help by making a profile, but even that was a marginal improvement, not like when I make profiles for my printers, which are mostly Pro models except for an R800. They are certainly way inexpensive, so I figure Epson's not putting a lot of technology into them._
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It can be tricky to figure out a stable state to put the driver in, so that profiling will be valid. Once that is done, the printerss tend to be as profilable as equivalent desktop printers. The inks in some models have been rather metameric, so the prints only look good under medium color temperature light, and may well turn green or pink under varied lighting, but that would also be true with the standalone printers that use the same inks. There is no reason an all-in-one is innately inferior; but they aren't based on the serious graphics printers (tabloid size and above) that most photographers are using.
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