Re: "Custom Settings" on 1160 Driver ?? &(^%$

[rafeb <rafeb@channel1.com>]

At 06:28 AM 1/9/00 -0600, bob snow wrote:

[rafe b:]
>> Has anyone else succesfully used "Custom"
>> printer settings, on the 1160, on a Wintel
>> machine?

>Rafe:
>
>I had no problems with my 1160 in this regard.  I have
>churned out quite a few prints with it without problems.
>
>I'm sure you know, but if you want to make a feature or
>setting default, do it from Start > Settings > Printers...do
>the changes and Apply.
>
>As I build wiziwyg profiles with certain sets of settings, I
>also save and name them from within the Epson Advanced
>printer dialogue.


OK, I hadn't done it quite that way... I did it
from the normal Epson/print dialog that comes up
when you print from Photoshop. 

>Have you gotten any good profiles working yet??  I blew
>through the Photo paper/OEM inks in about 15minutes, and it
>was every bit as on target as Jone Cone's, except that now I
>do not have to adjust gamma for printing (Jon's 1.8 to my
>2.2).  I haven't had as much success with some of the more
>exotic papers.  I think with them, getting the right amount
>of ink down is part of it.
>
>Sure wish they'd get their new improved version out!


And how will we know when it is? !!
A version number -- somewhere, anywhere -- would be nice.

Like I said:  Wizi clearly has restored
the contrast to this otherwise "flat" paper,
but there are some color shifts that I find
bothersome.  Shadows tend toward red, blues
tend toward cyan.  I've even managed to "tweak"
the profile using the curves tool in Photoshop,
with varying degrees of success.

(You can apply an "inverse" correction to the
upper half of the target, or a non-inverted
correction to the IT-8 part.  Both seem to
do produce similar results.)

I don't intend to use Wizi profiles with Epson
inks/media -- I just don't think that combination
needs any improvement at all from Wizi.  In fact,
that combination continues to be my reference.
I've never seen any ink/paper combo produce
a better print, with or without profiles.  Epson
ink on Epson Photo Paper.  Gotta love it.

Where I do want help from Wizi is with those
paper/ink combinations that produce results
markedly different from my "standard."  That's
why I chose the RedRiver paper as my first
test case.


rafe b.

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