Re: Anybody using the Epson 1280?

Scott wrote:
>I was wondering if anybody could shed some light on problems I am having
>with this printer.
>1) I find that I have to way oversaturate the colour on my monitor in order
>to get it to print well(to the point it almost looks absurd on the monitor).
>If I print to what I think looks right on my monitor, the colour prints very
>flat. I believe I have all the latest profiles and such for my
>printer??............this seems to happen on glossy or matte
>paper.........sometimes glossy works better , but overall I have to make it
>look oversaturated on the monitor to get it to print well.
>
>2) When I print birds like an Indigo Bunting , the blue looks very good, but
>if I try to print a bird against a blue sky, the sky looks too
>magenta?.........I have tried beefing up the cyan in the printer controls ,
>but it still doesn't print right.
 
It will be difficult to offer complete advice. We don't know what kind of
computer or OS you are using, and we don't know if you have attempted color
calibration on the overall system.

Let me guess, the printer test page does print out correctly, doesn't it?

---Bob Gross---