Advice on C80 Printer

I retired my HP 720 in favor of the Epson C80 and have been shocked at the results.

Print quality is superb. Color rendition really stinks. I must be doing something wrong.

I started with a 8 bit tiff converted by LinearSharpenv2.1 to AdobeRGB(1998). The image looks fabulous on the screen.

I have tried every combination of Automatic, Photoenhance, Custom, AdobeRGB printspace, Epson C80 profile, etc. and get print colors that are so blue cast they look grey or so red cast they look fake. Strangely enough, the best rendition of what I see on the screen is done with HP Photosmart. I KNOW this can't be right.

Is there a trick to taking the image on the screen and coaxing the printer to produce the same? My old HP 720 would do this without fail but had only marginal to poor print quality.

As an odd additional note; the same full sized image has much better color rendition when I down size it to a 2x3 test image and print. As soon as I print the full size at 8x10, the image becomes dark and color-casted.

Anybody had this same problem?

1). Leave the photo in Adobe RGB.
2). When printing make sure that the "source" says 'Adobe RGB' and the "printer" says 'printer color management'
3). Click on "setup" select the C80 and then click on "properties", click on "advanced" "custom" and select ICM for color management.
4). Make sure you select the correct paper.

Provided your monitor is correctly calibrated you should print out accurate colors. I do this with both an Epson 890 and Epson 900 and they print great. If you still have a color cast then your monitor probably is incorrectly calibrated. It takes more than gamma to get the colors accurate.

Chris,

I don't know how much this will help you, but I have a Stylus Photo 780 and I struggled with the color issue when I first got it as well. I use the Epson Heavyweight Matte Paper almost exclusively and here are the settings that I use:

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