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More info?)
Looking at purchasing the R200 for DVD's and CD's hows the quility?, and what
DVD's do you print on?
Thanks
Jim
Tommy T wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions, you are correct in that I am printing on Ritek
> white printable CD's. I am ignoring the screen colour in this - and in fact
> today I tried the same thing on my Epson 950 and got the same problem. It
> looks like orange until you compare it with the output from my Xerox 8400 or
> a colour laser print. It then has a pastel tinge to it. I'm starting tom
> think it could be a colour space problem in that Epsons print using RGB, an
> if you look at the colour gamut compared to pure CMYK it doesn't quite reach
> the saturation needed. (Adobe have a page on this on their site). I think it
> might need a different driver to get what I'm looking for - can anyone help?
> P.S. I print around 2500 disks a week, both CD and DVD on various types of
> media using these Epson R300/200 printers. The only problem is the plastic
> CD trays wear out!
> Regards
> Martin
>
> "Dave" <xtalsinger@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:b3auc09feusdo56780aejv3d86648cloh4@4ax.com...
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:44:30 -0400, in comp.periphs.printers, beezer
> > <beezer@rezeeb.moc> wrote:
> >
> > >I thought he meant the cd's were orange to begin with also, but after
> > >reading it several times, I think he meant what he wants to print is
> > >pure orange and coming out pastel.
> > >
> > >correct me if im wrong as this would be a different ballgame
> >
> > You might well be right. A more carefull reading does seem to indicate
> > that. I probably got caught out by the fact there's a spindle full of
> > orange label DVDs right in front of me now. Amazing what a little
> > auto-suggestion can do to the thought processes <g>
> >
> > It looks like the OP needs to make sure his screen and printer are set up
> > properly with profiles or whatever. With a colour difference as wide as
> > he implies, I'd think that either he's got some very poor/cheap ink in
> > that printer or, more likely, the screen is not set up correctly., ie too
> > dark so what looks like orange on his screen is actually salmon pink.
> >
> >
> > There's a page at
http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm which goes into
> > screen gamma setup and gives a fairly accurate example of what I think is
> > happening to the OP as regards the orange.
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > --
> > xtalsinger@yahoo.com is a valid reply-to address but I don't check it
> every day.