From: Galina Manikova (galina@online.no)
Date: 02/10/03-06:16:50 AM Z
metamerism with Epson printersI am considerung to buy a new printer.
Does anyone on the list have any experience with Epson 7600 in connection to
negatives or metamerism ?
I would appreciate some advice.
Regards to all.
Galina.
Galina Manikova
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy King [mailto:sanking@clemson.edu]
Sent: 9. februar 2003 17:46
To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
Subject: metamerism with Epson printers
This is a rather specific bit of information but I thought a few of you
might be interested.
If you have owned or worked with an Epson 2000P printer you know that one
of the big issues is metamerism, i.e. the print will have a different color
depending on the viewing light. All printers that use pigment inks suffer to
some extent from metamerism and my understanding is that the Epson 2200,
which replaced the 2000P, does not entirely eliminate the problem.
However, there is some relief for 2000P owners. Epson has a new printer
driver for the 2000P that is designed to minimize the effects of metamerism.
I recently downloaded it and have now made enough prints with the new driver
to be able to say that it does a very good job in reducing metamerism. If
you have an Epson 2000P I believe you will find the new driver (actually it
is several months old now) will give you much better results than the
original driver, especially if your prints will be viewed under several
different types of lighting. You can download the driver at the Epson web
site. Epson's recommendations are that you don't use this driver unless you
are experiencing metamerism problems. But if you own a 2000P you are for
sure experiencing metamerism problems, unless of course you suffer from some
form of color blindness.
Anyway, if you were thinking of trading away your 2000P for a 2200 because
you found the metamerism unacceptable you might want to re-think the
proposition since the archival qualities of prints from the 2000P are in
fact better than those from the 2200.
Sandy King
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