beebill
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I bought a Precision Color refill kit for my Canon Pro-10 back in June. I didn't see it right away, because it took some time for the refill inks to work their way through, but I recently noticed how bad my prints were coming out. I made a new ICC profile just to be sure, and I'm getting really poor results.
I know they changed owners earlier in the year, and I've never ordered a set of pigment inks from them before, so I didn't know what to expect. I wanted to check if this quality is typical, or if I should contact them about it?
Here are the initial ICC charts from ccStudio. The charts are printed without a profile directly from ccStudio, so I assume these are comparing apples to apples:
Hopefully you can tell how much weaker the colors are compared to OEM.
These are test prints with their respective custom ICC profiles. You can see how dim the red/magenta & cyan inks are for Precision Colors. Skin tones are a horrible gray with a greenish tint because the red/magentas are so dull. Reds come out closer to orange. And the blues drift into purple because the cyans are even weaker:
Has anybody else had similar experiences, or is this not characteristic of their inks? Are my expectations too high? Is there anything else I should take into account?
I know they changed owners earlier in the year, and I've never ordered a set of pigment inks from them before, so I didn't know what to expect. I wanted to check if this quality is typical, or if I should contact them about it?
Here are the initial ICC charts from ccStudio. The charts are printed without a profile directly from ccStudio, so I assume these are comparing apples to apples:
Hopefully you can tell how much weaker the colors are compared to OEM.
These are test prints with their respective custom ICC profiles. You can see how dim the red/magenta & cyan inks are for Precision Colors. Skin tones are a horrible gray with a greenish tint because the red/magentas are so dull. Reds come out closer to orange. And the blues drift into purple because the cyans are even weaker:
Has anybody else had similar experiences, or is this not characteristic of their inks? Are my expectations too high? Is there anything else I should take into account?
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