Epson R1800 woes

[FredG]

I was happy with my 1800 doing wildlife. Hey, green is green, right? But some recent portraits for a client came out way too dark/saturated. I'm satisfied that my monitor is well calibrated, as I had a few of the same prints done at Walgreens and they were right on. The worst, though, was a b/w that came out with sort of brown/beige undertones. Again, Walgreen printed it perfectly black. Has anyone run into this non-black problem with Epson 1800 (or R800 which I believe has the same ink set)?

I went back and re-read this thread to see if I missed anything, but I think I have all the bases covered. I may have to resort to a saturation and contrast adjustment as Anders suggested, but what about b/w? Any thoughts?

Anders: have you found a non-PS fix to your problem?

Mats: I'm only striving here for "good enough".

[OlgaJ]

I hadn't used my R1600 in a while when I decided to print something over the weekend. Yikes! It was a chromatic abberation image on paper with accompanying banding. Finally ran a printer cleaning and discovered that I needed one of the black cartridges replaced. After all that, I got the printer to work right again.

Have you run a cleaning or nozzle test?

Olga

[FredG]

UPDATE - IT'S NOT THE PRINTER!

Looks like I jumped to a wrong conclusion. I looked at some old 1800 portrait prints and they are fine. I woke up today suspecting PSCS vs PSCS2. I transferred a file from my laptop (where it was processed on PS2CS and my calibrated LCD) to my desktop over the network. I opened and printed it in each of PSCS and PSCS2. Both prints were excellent and very different from the one I printed from the laptop across the network to the printer. With that simple test, I've absolved both computers, the monitor, the network, the printer, and both PS versions. I ran out of time, but I now wonder if when I set up the laptop I copied the same Epson profiles from the desktop (likely updated from the Epson site since I first installed them), or if I installed them from the original disk. I suspect I will find the laptop still has the old profiles on it. Sure hope that's the case because it's such an easy fix.

[FredG]

final update:
The drivers on the laptop were a few months older than the others. I downloaded the latest from Epson's site and they worked great with colors and saturation faithful to the monitor. However, b/w is still unsatisfactory as the balcks are not true blacks. The 2200 did not get pulled when the 1800 was introduced. The stated reason was the ability of the 2200 to produce good b/w. Since then, the 2400 replaced the 2200, offering black, light black, and light light black inks. It supposedly does a superb job on b/w. I was going to delete this thread, but decided to leave it up
1) In case my earlier post got anyone scared about this printer.
2) As a monument to myself for jumping to a conclusion without proper testing.

VERY new to to Freespire and Linux but think it is terrific. Printer - Epson C60 prints fine but cannot use tool such as cleaning etc. I geeet message which seems to suggest programme in gimp print not installed - The executable escputil cannot be found in your PATH environment variable. Make sure gimp-print is installed and that escputil is in your PATH. Me -not a clue where to start. Could someone walk me through this please.

I am pretty sure I have heard good things about this. The only thing I dont like about my Epson is that it wont print even just plain black if one of the colors is out of ink. Not sure if this is something that happens across the board or not.

Its so hard to narrow it down with all the choices.

Once again, I cant get the Epson to print. A few months ago I got it to print for one day. Nothing has changed in the print command structure itself nor the Xandros command structure, yet when I push the print icon nothing happens at the printer. The printer acknowledgment box is displayed with the C60 highlighted, but complete silence from the printer. I checked LinuxPrinting, and they have the C60 as working "perfectly" as opposed to "once". The printer and cable are not faulty because I can use them to print in WIndows XP.I find Xandros/Linux to be a fine enough system, but something has got to be done about printing problems. The printing situation is causing a volcanic level of frustration.

[ChiefBill]

Dump that POS Epson and buy a Canon 9000 or 9500 - get a real printer! LOL

[MatsP]

I'm pretty sure the last three posts are spam - they are copies of posts from other forums on the web - and about 3-4 years old!

I have reported these posts...

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Mats