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John_K
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Odd colour reproduction
      #868067 - 08/02/2010 15:59

Can anyone explain why my Epson 1290S printer will print quite normally (and excellently) when printing straight forward colour images. However if I introduce something like a Pantone tint to a mono image the colour repro just goes out of the window.

Recently I had what I thought was an excellent B&W inmage with snow and frozen trees which printed fine using the black channel only, however when I introduce a very weak hint of blue using Pantone the resulting colour came out as green not blue. A deeper tone as well, not the delicate shade I required.

print the original image which was colour, normally, not B&W with Pantone and it comes out fine.

I know the 1290 printer is not new by any standard but it is working well for most of my needs so I am reluctant to sell it or replace it with something else just to put money in the pockets of the Epson manufacturers.

The paper was Epson HW Matt and the inks came from a Fotospeed CIS System. If that is a problem with my 'old' technology I will just have to live with it.

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Malcolm_Stewart
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Re: Odd colour reproduction [Re: John_K]
      #868207 - 09/02/2010 00:47

I have an Epson 1270, and whilst I don't normally use it for B&W, I can't recall any problems. I'm wondering whether your colour shift was apparent on the Print Preview screen, or whether it only occurred on paper?

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John_K
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Re: Odd colour reproduction [Re: Malcolm_Stewart]
      #868242 - 09/02/2010 09:10

On the screen it is perfect, exactly the result I want but ion paper - whatever paper I get this odd, unwanted effect.

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