Epson media settings (was: WiziWYG and 750)

["Gary L. Hunt" <glh@srv.net>]

At 02:07 PM 1/6/2000 -0500, Stephen Jennings wrote:
>
>My question is this: is there a listing of preferred Media setting for
>various paper/ink/printer combinations?  Experimenting is fun, but I'd
>rather not reinvent the wheel if I don't have to.
>
>One more question: is the Inkjet Transparencies setting on the 750 the same
>as Backlit Film that others have mentioned?

Except for the last question (no, they aren't the same--they are separate
media choices, at least for my EX driver), I have only more questions.
Ian Lyons thinks there is no actual list of preferred settings, and I'm sure 
he's right, or someone would have brought it up in the couple of months
I've been subscribing to this list.  Epson obviously isn't going to produce
one--they intend you to use their papers and the corresponding settings,
which makes the choices obvious.  There seems to be a lot of experience
on the list with people who have tried various settings with non-Epson
papers and/or inks, with varying results, leading them to draw conclusions 
about which settings are likely to work with which papers.  Unfortunately 
for the rest of us, these conclusions sometimes seem to be contradictory,
which could be because some of them are printer-specific.  (All the
discussion about how much ink a 1200 delivers is a case in point.)

A key question (although not the only one of course) seems to be the
relative amounts of ink delivered for the various paper settings.  So my
version of this question is simpler: is there any documented evidence
or data as to the systematic differences between the media settings
with respect to ink volume?  If not, is there an easy way to measure 
this?  Could one, for example, print the same test image on the same 
paper at all the settings and measure ink density?  (I'm only talking 
about RGB drivers here; even I can tell this is a much more complicated 
question for CMYK printing.)  Is the answer going to be dependent
on whether one is using a custom printer profile with "No Color 
Adjustment" in the Epson driver?  (Seems likely.)  And last but not
least, is anybody who is equipped to find this out sufficiently interested
to do the testing?

Just wishing.....

Gary Hunt <glh@srv.net>



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