Precision Colors - Quality Issues

[beebill]

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, but I'm still 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 charts from ccStudio (Calibrite's version of X-Rite's i1Profiler software). The charts are color targets printed directly from ccStudio, and then scanned with my scanner, so I assume these are comparing apples to apples:

Hopefully you can tell how much weaker the colors are compared to OEM.

The following are test prints with their respective ICC profiles made with ccStudio. You can see how dim the red/magenta & cyan inks are for Precision Colors. Skin tones are a horrible gray with a greenish tint. Reds come out closer to orange, and the blues drift into purple.

Has anybody else had similar experiences, or is this not characteristic of their inks? Am I interpreting this correctly? Is there anything else I should take into account?

 

[PeterBJ]

If you accidentally refilled the cyan and magenta cartridges with the photo cyan and photo magenta inks instead of regular cyan and magenta I think these dull colours would be the result.

Could you please uoload a photo or scan of a nozzle check?

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

It is the job of a profile to compensate ink variations and to get the print output closer together as much as
different gamuts would allow. It was a promise by precisioncolors that the inks are as close as possible to the OEM inks so that a different profile would not be needed. If this is the case here you may contact precisioncolors for that.

But I would verify as well that patch sheets and test images have been printed with the same driver setting -
e.g. ICC option on/off or inks have been mixed when printing the patch sheets