Martin
October 20th, 2002, 02:19 AM
I have been preparing an exhibition of stills and have hit a printing quirk that I cannot explain. For the last few days my Epson 740 has been printing pictures with an extreme megenta caste. These are pictures which printed correctly last week, using all the same settings in software. (I use Epson Photo glossy Film in auto mode, and Adobe RGB 1998 colour space in Photoshop.)
I took the same files to a friend and tried printing them on his Epson 1270. The same magenta caste appeared. I can solve the problem on both printers by adding 40% green midtones in the colour balance using Photoshop 7. The picture looks terrible on the monitor, but prints with the correct balance.
I have tried switching cartridges, no change. I have cleaned nozzles. no change. I have tried a variety of colour spaces. no significant change. I have tried different colour management settings in the Epson software. no change.
Can anyone explain what is happening or how to troubleshoot? Its the inconsistency which baffles me the most.
Thanks for any ideas
Martin
I took the same files to a friend and tried printing them on his Epson 1270. The same magenta caste appeared. I can solve the problem on both printers by adding 40% green midtones in the colour balance using Photoshop 7. The picture looks terrible on the monitor, but prints with the correct balance.
I have tried switching cartridges, no change. I have cleaned nozzles. no change. I have tried a variety of colour spaces. no significant change. I have tried different colour management settings in the Epson software. no change.
Can anyone explain what is happening or how to troubleshoot? Its the inconsistency which baffles me the most.
Thanks for any ideas
Martin