Ink saturation limit
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:04 am
Hello,
Recently I bought a Home license for Printfab, and now I'd like to create a printer profile for a 200gsm glossy photo paper. Therefore, I need to determine the optimum ink limit for my printer, an Epson Stylus Photo R800.
Whenever I print the ink limit test row, it's always printed at 5760 dpi regardless the chosen resolution in the settings dialog box. Every test patch, from 200 to 300% is wet. To be safe I set the ink limit to 150, the lowest value available.
Next, I created a small RGB color chart with Measuretool, part of Profilemaker, and printed it with Photoshop through the Printfab driver with the 'empty' media profile selected. Even now a lot of patches were wet, so it seems like the ink limiting is not working. The color chart from the Printfab Toolbox exhibits ink bleeding as well.
The same Measuretool color chart printed with the regular Epson driver shows no ink bleeding. The settings used were Premium Glossy Photo Paper, PhotoRPM resolution, bidirectional, no gloss optimizer, color management off.
Another problem with printing the ink limit test, is that each time first a blank page is ejected from the printer, and then the test page is printed.
What could be the reason for these problems?
Regards,
Yann Bouckaert
Recently I bought a Home license for Printfab, and now I'd like to create a printer profile for a 200gsm glossy photo paper. Therefore, I need to determine the optimum ink limit for my printer, an Epson Stylus Photo R800.
Whenever I print the ink limit test row, it's always printed at 5760 dpi regardless the chosen resolution in the settings dialog box. Every test patch, from 200 to 300% is wet. To be safe I set the ink limit to 150, the lowest value available.
Next, I created a small RGB color chart with Measuretool, part of Profilemaker, and printed it with Photoshop through the Printfab driver with the 'empty' media profile selected. Even now a lot of patches were wet, so it seems like the ink limiting is not working. The color chart from the Printfab Toolbox exhibits ink bleeding as well.
The same Measuretool color chart printed with the regular Epson driver shows no ink bleeding. The settings used were Premium Glossy Photo Paper, PhotoRPM resolution, bidirectional, no gloss optimizer, color management off.
Another problem with printing the ink limit test, is that each time first a blank page is ejected from the printer, and then the test page is printed.
What could be the reason for these problems?
Regards,
Yann Bouckaert