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 10/26/2004 07:12:36 PM · #1
....am curious as to what is important when printing with this printer (Intent - relative, absolute colorimetric, perceptual, - use black point compensation yes/no - etc.) - so.... will you so kindly share your settings

Thank you!
 10/26/2004 07:20:42 PM · #2
It's important to use it regularly. Or it will clog.
 10/26/2004 07:34:37 PM · #3
I do not use these settings as they are not true to the Values that PS8 will put out. I use either the sRGB or ICM print spaces and not other settings.
 10/26/2004 07:54:11 PM · #4
Originally posted by nshapiro:
It's important to use it regularly. Or it will clog.


thank you - and what settings do you use?
 10/26/2004 08:09:38 PM · #5
Originally posted by lelani:
Originally posted by nshapiro:
It's important to use it regularly. Or it will clog.


thank you - and what settings do you use?


Loved the printer, but I didn't use it enough and mine broke quite a while back. (Actually, I had the 1280;s predecessor, the 1200, but the Epson's all suffer from this.)

I bought a Canon this time instead. Never yet had to unclog the heads. With my Epson, I drowned the pads in ink trying to unclog it.
10/26/2004 08:20:39 PM · #6
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Originally posted by lelani:
Originally posted by nshapiro:
It's important to use it regularly. Or it will clog.


thank you - and what settings do you use?


Loved the printer, but I didn't use it enough and mine broke quite a while back. (Actually, I had the 1280;s predecessor, the 1200, but the Epson's all suffer from this.)

I bought a Canon this time instead. Never yet had to unclog the heads. With my Epson, I drowned the pads in ink trying to unclog it.


I must be so lucky as I have'nt experienced this :)
 10/26/2004 08:24:52 PM · #7
Well, I hope that means they've improved things! Mine only lasted a little over a year. For a $500 printer, which I maybe used 100 times, it was expensive. (I only used it for photos--I have a laser for documents.)

I use to have to run multiple cleaning cycles even when I put in a new cartridge. The pads would get flooded with ink, and I think that led to the printers early demise.
 10/26/2004 08:27:34 PM · #8
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Well, I hope that means they've improved things! Mine only lasted a little over a year. For a $500 printer, which I maybe used 100 times, it was expensive. (I only used it for photos--I have a laser for documents.)

I use to have to run multiple cleaning cycles even when I put in a new cartridge. The pads would get flooded with ink, and I think that led to the printers early demise.


I got mine 2 years ago.
 10/26/2004 08:29:27 PM · #9
Originally posted by nshapiro:


Loved the printer, but I didn't use it enough and mine broke quite a while back. (Actually, I had the 1280;s predecessor, the 1200, but the Epson's all suffer from this.)

I bought a Canon this time instead. Never yet had to unclog the heads. With my Epson, I drowned the pads in ink trying to unclog it.

I have a bad experience with canon printers in exactly this respect. I only had the budget end of their printer line, so the newer or more expensive could be better.

IMHO printers should be sold with a Best before date :)
 10/26/2004 09:22:38 PM · #10
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 10/26/2004 11:03:23 PM · #11
I use a different Epson model (stylus C82), but I choose the Profile "Printer Color Management", so the Intent and Black Point Compensation are irrelevant. Then I make choices in my printer driver that work for most photos (and tweak them for the occasional time it doesn't look right). I don't know if the C82 controls are similar to the 1280, but I normally use Color Controls with a Gamma of 1.8.

If you want Photoshop to do the color management, that's fine. Ideally, choose the Profile that matches the printer and paper you will be printing on. Using an Intent of Perceptual is generally the most suitable for photos, but choose one of the Colorimetric intents if you want the colors to match the screen more closely (with the caveat that relationships of the colors that can't be matched to the colors in the rest of the photo will be sacrificed). If you don't have a profile calibrated for the printer and paper you are using, don't, in general, bother with the Colorimetric intents.

But the most important thing to do is to choose whether you want Photoshop or your printer driver to do the conversion from the image color space to the printer's. If you specify a profile in Photoshop, make sure to specify "No Color Adjustment" in the printer settings so the conversion won't be done twice (with disappointing results). And don't tell Photoshop to use "Printer Color Management" and the printer to use "No Color Adjustment" or the conversion to the printer color space won't be done.
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