Comments on: Winning a battle

By: fred1st

fred1st — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:18:28 +0000

I’m waiting and working towards that “anyways, after that…” stage. Miles to go.

I’m looking at monitor hardware calibrators now, figuring if I’ve come this far, I might as well go for broke.

Hmmm. The barbs of that figure of speech land a little too close for comfort just now. UPS just delivered my first $75 of paper. Here we go.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:11:15 +0000

My experience with my 2200 was I only got accurate images if I:
1) Turned off all of the Epson print driver’s color adjustment/management crap.
2) Profiled my monitor with a hardware calibrator
3) Calibrated every paper/ink combination I used with a printer calibrator
4) Printed from Photoshop telling it to manage the colors and use the profiles I generated.

Step 3 was easier when I had access to one for free, since they are expensive. Eventually, I spent the money for Colorbyte’s Imageprint RIP which came with some very accurate profiles (along with some very good black/white printing features, but I don’t think they support the 2880). There are also companies that will generate profiles from color swatch prints you make.

Anyways, after that I found I needed very little tweaking after my first print of an image.

By: fletch

fletch — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:29:49 +0000

Remember now, this is supposed to be fun.

By: Doug Thompson

Doug Thompson — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:35:10 +0000

Fred’s lament: “Someday, my prints will come.”

Drop by when you’re in town. I’ll see what advice I can offer.