Epson SC P900 and colour profiles
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:55 am
Hi there
I have just bought a Epson SC P900 and a licence for TurboPrint Studio XL for it. The printed output is very nice, however I have a few questions about the colour and paper profiles.
1) The colours printed by TurboPrint (especially pale pastel colours) are markedly different from those printed using Windows and Epson's own Print Layout software. I actually think the ones with TurboPrint are more accurate, and I dislike the look of the EPL print a little. But I am surprised that such a difference is present. Comparing two for a pale magnolia tone, the EPL software produces a much more yellow colour, whereas TurboPrint is more pink. As I said, I actually think the TurboPrint colour is much truer to what I was expecting! These are both printed on identical Epson Archival Matt paper (using the in-built TurboPrint profile) with the closest settings that I can set between the two piece software (EPL vs GIMP 2.10/TurboPrint, both using sRGB and the same DPI).
2) The colour blue (#0000FF) is much much more saturated when printing from TurboPrint than EPL. Which I prefer depends on photo context, but it is notably different. There is also noticable banding when fading between magenta and blue in a test gradient. Again, I attempted to print with as close settings as possible between EPL and TurboPrint on the same paper (Epson Premium Glossy) and with the same colour space.
With both of these, I am surprised that the difference between TurboPrint and EPL is so great, as I was expecting the same settings/paper to be largely identical between the two.
I also noticed that there was an additional profile given on the TurboPrint page for Epson P900 for "Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper". This produces the best output of them all! But again I was surprised that the in-built "Epson Premium Glossy" setting gave different output from this different profile, and indeed why such an alternative profile would be needed if the paper is already in-built to TurboPrint? Maybe I have misunderstood the in-built profiles?
I have a few other questions but I'll put them in separate posts to try and keep each on a single topic.
Many thanks, and good software!
Pete
I have just bought a Epson SC P900 and a licence for TurboPrint Studio XL for it. The printed output is very nice, however I have a few questions about the colour and paper profiles.
1) The colours printed by TurboPrint (especially pale pastel colours) are markedly different from those printed using Windows and Epson's own Print Layout software. I actually think the ones with TurboPrint are more accurate, and I dislike the look of the EPL print a little. But I am surprised that such a difference is present. Comparing two for a pale magnolia tone, the EPL software produces a much more yellow colour, whereas TurboPrint is more pink. As I said, I actually think the TurboPrint colour is much truer to what I was expecting! These are both printed on identical Epson Archival Matt paper (using the in-built TurboPrint profile) with the closest settings that I can set between the two piece software (EPL vs GIMP 2.10/TurboPrint, both using sRGB and the same DPI).
2) The colour blue (#0000FF) is much much more saturated when printing from TurboPrint than EPL. Which I prefer depends on photo context, but it is notably different. There is also noticable banding when fading between magenta and blue in a test gradient. Again, I attempted to print with as close settings as possible between EPL and TurboPrint on the same paper (Epson Premium Glossy) and with the same colour space.
With both of these, I am surprised that the difference between TurboPrint and EPL is so great, as I was expecting the same settings/paper to be largely identical between the two.
I also noticed that there was an additional profile given on the TurboPrint page for Epson P900 for "Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper". This produces the best output of them all! But again I was surprised that the in-built "Epson Premium Glossy" setting gave different output from this different profile, and indeed why such an alternative profile would be needed if the paper is already in-built to TurboPrint? Maybe I have misunderstood the in-built profiles?
I have a few other questions but I'll put them in separate posts to try and keep each on a single topic.
Many thanks, and good software!
Pete