Epson Printer -- Generations 5 observations

Two papers were tested, Epson Semi-gloss and Epson Archival matte, using a standard calibration file with the Ole no moire, a blk to white stepwedge and the fuji target with some skin tones and products. The printer was a 6 color Epson 1270. There were two files tested: One was a full color image and another was a slightly warm/neutral rendition of the same file.

I would say that they are very nice on coated watercolor papers with a very similar look to Gen4 and probably about 10-15% less metamarism to my eye. I found the shadows to have much too much bronzing on Epson Semigloss. There may be other papers that will look better, but the Epson Semi gloss paper has a strange sheen in the dark 80% areas. What I found interesting was that as I turned it a little bit under a D50 lightbox, the warm/neutral print shifted between green and magenta, almost like a lenticular image from a cracker jack box that changes as you turn it. Very odd! This was only evident with the Epson semigloss. The warm to neutral Archival Matte print didn't shift too much between D50, warm flourescent and very warm tungsten, but there was definately some shift.

By the way, the yellow is bright and on the warm side. Very nice in my opinion. More testing on various semi-gloss/gloss papers needs to be done of course, so if anyone else is using them, please post your findings when the opportunity allows.