I noticed sharp gradients (bands) in the orange and red color transitions on the Grey Egg target.

They had a grey cast to them and appeared dull. Therefore, please excuse the subjective descriptions, and consider my remarks as just that subjective.ġ) Epson’s ICC profiles for Glossy Photo and Colorlife papers. I didn’t use a matrix chart because this wasn’t a true print test but rather my observations and comparisons from a series of printings using a range of Advanced printer settings. The sheep skin and white lining of the baby’s bed were a good test for details and highlights, midtones, and shadows. I've found that skin tones are a good test for printers since poorly replicated skin tones are quickly noticed by most people. Test images - Gretag MacBeth target & Grey Egg Printer Target (v1.3), plus, I used a digital photo of an infant (Caucasian) lying on a natural sheep skin blanket in a baby bed lined with white quilting. Image and working color space – sRGB-IEC61966-2.1 Papers/Ink - Epson Glossy Photo and Epson Colorlife and Epson dye inks Printer settings: 1440 dpi with high speed off. Printer - Epson Stylus Photo 960 (purchased January 2003) Monitor – Dell 19” M992 adjusted using Adobe Gamma. I spent enough time and used enough ink and paper to figure it was worth passing on my comments.

I ran some comparison printings this weekend using a range of printer settings. I was still using the original printer drivers (v3.x?) that came with the printer over a year ago so I went to the Epson web site and downloaded the most current SP960 drivers (v.5.4) for WinXP.

I recently upgraded to a Windows XP system from an old Win98 system and found that prints from my Epson Stylus Photo 960 were not turning out quite the same.

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