Canon i960 Opinions Questions

[Mike H]

I a few questions for anyone using this printer, as I am considering switching over from the Epson 820.

Have you had difficulty getting it to print what you see on the screen? I can't do that with my Epson. I realize it's quite a bit of work to get the printer and monitor, etc., coordinated to where your print is exactly what is on the screen, but I'm not looking to get it down to the width of a knat's ass, just reasonably close.

Have you seen a file printed with this printer and the Epson photo printers? I'm interested in a comparison if someone has done it.

Have you had any problems with the printer?

Thanks very much.

Mike H

[polloloco81]

Wonderful printer. I highly reccomend it for such a great price. Great quality and speed. As far as color accuracy, it's pretty dead on. Only problem I have is that the colors come out a bit more saturated than normal, so skin tones become a bit orangy, but it's pretty unoticable and easily fixed.

[ohenry]

I have a !!960 and use it with RedRever papers along with RedRiver profiles. It yields excellent photos.

[Mike H]

Wonderful printer. I highly reccomend it for such a great price. Great quality and speed. As far as color accuracy, it's pretty dead on. Only problem I have is that the colors come out a bit more saturated than normal, so skin tones become a bit orangy, but it's pretty unoticable and easily fixed.

Thanks for the response. How do you fix the skin tones?

Mike H

[samdring]

I a few questions for anyone using this printer, as I am considering switching over from the Epson 820.
Mike H

before you spend your hard earned, I have an Epson 950 and was initially saddened by colour repro

Now spot on - have you tried the colour adjustments, for example, I am on -13 on magenta, +5 on cyan and -5 on yellow add contrast etc to taste.
You really need to try some extreme settings on epson - I do not use profiles.

Sorry if you have already experimented

[Mike H]

I a few questions for anyone using this printer, as I am considering switching over from the Epson 820.
Mike H

before you spend your hard earned, I have an Epson 950 and was initially saddened by colour repro

Now spot on - have you tried the colour adjustments, for example, I am on -13 on magenta, +5 on cyan and -5 on yellow add contrast etc to taste.
You really need to try some extreme settings on epson - I do not use profiles.

Sorry if you have already experimented

No need to apologize. That kind of experimentation is what prompted my post. After hours of making changes to the settings to try to match the color and contrast, I gave up and started looking for a new printer. Thanks.

Mike H

[polloloco81]

Wonderful printer. I highly reccomend it for such a great price. Great quality and speed. As far as color accuracy, it's pretty dead on. Only problem I have is that the colors come out a bit more saturated than normal, so skin tones become a bit orangy, but it's pretty unoticable and easily fixed.

Thanks for the response. How do you fix the skin tones?

Mike H

I mainly use photoshop color adjustment setting and desaturate my entire photograph by -5. But I do this only because I mainly shot in vivid mode with my G5 and after some experimentation, this was my simplest and quickest way possible to get precise color adjustment. If I shoot in a different mode, I might have to go back and do something a bit different.

And on a side note, I've only used Canon's paper, so I don't know how well it compare to other brands. I'm just in love with the quality it yields me, so I am not very motivated to go test out other brands. However, I have heard that Canon paper is a bit expensive overall.

[mttmrphy]

Wonderful printer. I highly reccomend it for such a great price. Great quality and speed. As far as color accuracy, it's pretty dead on. Only problem I have is that the colors come out a bit more saturated than normal, so skin tones become a bit orangy, but it's pretty unoticable and easily fixed.

Thanks for the response. How do you fix the skin tones?

Mike H

Are you having yellow skin tone issues? I have this printer and will occasionaly get yellow/green skin tones even though the colors look accuarate on my screen.

If anyone has advice with this... please let me know.

[maderito]

Are you having yellow skin tone issues? I have this printer and will occasionaly get yellow/green skin tones even though the colors look accuarate on my screen.

If anyone has advice with this... please let me know.

The Canon and Epson printers in this class are capable of giving very accurate colors. Problems of the type you are mentioning are often related to monitors that are not properly calibrated and profiled. That's assuming your the color management workflow is correct from camera capture to final ouput on print paper.

Skin tones are especially vulnerable to apparent mismatches between the monitor color and final print. Skin tones contain midtones of nearly equal proportions of magenta and yellow color (with varying cyan and black). Yellow and magenta (or green, the absence of magenta) castes are readily noticed by our eyes which "know" what skin should look like.