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profiling epson "All in one" printers

profiling epson "All in one" printers

2008-12-18 by zaxman94611

Are the print engines in the All-in-one units clearly inferior to the
stand alone printers ?

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.

Just curious at this point.


J.Z.

Re: profiling epson "All in one" printers

2008-12-18 by John Vitollo

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "zaxman94611" <lotus@...> wrote:
>
> Are the print engines in the All-in-one units clearly inferior to the
> stand alone printers ?

You mean the Epson Scanner Printer....printer? You should be able to get decent quality our 
of those printers. Sounds like a clogged nozzle. Did you do a nozzle check?

Re: [colorvision_group] profiling epson "All in one" printers

2008-12-18 by cdtobie


On Dec 17, 2008, at 7:55:23 PM, zaxman94611 wrote:
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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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