Julia
Printing Apprentice
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2019
- Messages
- 18
- Reaction score
- 8
- Points
- 16
- Printer Model
- Epson Surecolor P400
I am new here so Hello everybody.
I also have the SC P400. I graduated from the R1800 Photo which was a brilliant printer but gave up on me after 10 years (not bad!) despite expensive and valiant attempts of every kind to unclog the nozzles. My problem is that all the settings are pretty well completely different on the new printer. Unlike most people here I am not printing photos I am designing prints using Photoshop as a means of laying down colours. I use a graphics pad. Because I really do not know any better, I have always designed on screen and and then used the setting that seemed to suit best (eg old printer Standard or Vivid 1.5, 1.8, 2.2) and made a careful note of which of those used. Lots of proofing of course because what you see is not what you get. So having got the perfect proof I could always reproduce it. None of the new printer settings really relate to the old ones. Of course the design remains and an approximation of the colours. It seems I have to re-proof every one of my prints! Not easy I can tell you. My colours are subtle.
One of the things I notice is that the difference between the colours in the R1800 and the SC P400 is that the former had 2 blues and two reds (effectively) the new printer only has Cyan for blues and effectively 3 reds one of which is orange (plus yellow, two blacks and optimiser). This biases my original prints heavily towards Cyan which drives me mad! I am using exactly the same paper (Somerset enhanced Velvet or Epson matt for proofing).
Do photographers have the same problem moving from one printer to another? How do they manage to produce an identical image from different printers? Or do they not have occasion to save them?
I read about Paper Profiles but it is now too late and I think beyond me to start again. I am very OLD! I thought I might be able to kill the cyan with magenta but really that doesn't work because it effects all the other colours too much. You might expect it to be proportionate BUT!!!
I would really like to know from others if they have this problem and in what way they have experienced it...and any other comments. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss it. I work alone...no-one I know does anything similar. My teachers have been Trial and Error!
Thank you, Julia
I also have the SC P400. I graduated from the R1800 Photo which was a brilliant printer but gave up on me after 10 years (not bad!) despite expensive and valiant attempts of every kind to unclog the nozzles. My problem is that all the settings are pretty well completely different on the new printer. Unlike most people here I am not printing photos I am designing prints using Photoshop as a means of laying down colours. I use a graphics pad. Because I really do not know any better, I have always designed on screen and and then used the setting that seemed to suit best (eg old printer Standard or Vivid 1.5, 1.8, 2.2) and made a careful note of which of those used. Lots of proofing of course because what you see is not what you get. So having got the perfect proof I could always reproduce it. None of the new printer settings really relate to the old ones. Of course the design remains and an approximation of the colours. It seems I have to re-proof every one of my prints! Not easy I can tell you. My colours are subtle.
One of the things I notice is that the difference between the colours in the R1800 and the SC P400 is that the former had 2 blues and two reds (effectively) the new printer only has Cyan for blues and effectively 3 reds one of which is orange (plus yellow, two blacks and optimiser). This biases my original prints heavily towards Cyan which drives me mad! I am using exactly the same paper (Somerset enhanced Velvet or Epson matt for proofing).
Do photographers have the same problem moving from one printer to another? How do they manage to produce an identical image from different printers? Or do they not have occasion to save them?
I read about Paper Profiles but it is now too late and I think beyond me to start again. I am very OLD! I thought I might be able to kill the cyan with magenta but really that doesn't work because it effects all the other colours too much. You might expect it to be proportionate BUT!!!
I would really like to know from others if they have this problem and in what way they have experienced it...and any other comments. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss it. I work alone...no-one I know does anything similar. My teachers have been Trial and Error!
Thank you, Julia