Epson R1800 - How I got it to print correctly!

Quite Rene,

That's what everyone should do. Sadly, for some reason it did not work for me.

Now have have a very high standard of color matched prints from calibrated screen and SpyderPrint3SR produced colour profiles. I use neither Epson Ink nor paper now.

It does seem that this must be a rogue printer as no one has the faintest idea why this should be. I never managed to get any answer from Epson.

I think that's about it really and we should close this topic now.

Thanks guys.

if you're using other inks then Epsons, you must use custom profiles.
Otherwise, it's a guessing game.

Glad it worked out for you Bill.

One of these days when I'm in an experimental mood and have some time I'll try out some alternative papers on the R1800. Judging by other posts on POTN there are some really excellent non-Epson papers out there that people have been really happy with. As Rene mentioned, it's just a matter of learning how to use these other profiles.

For the most part I use two of the Epson papers for my exhibit work: Premium Luster surface if I want to achieve a semi-gloss sort of look, and Velvet Fine Art if I want to impart more of a watercolor, higher saturation appearance to the print.

The shipping might by killer to the UK Bill, but I've been using these folks for a couple of years now for both and ink and paper:

http://www.atlex.com/

There paper and ink pricing is quite good.

I dont have a R1800 But I have R1900 printer. Disable printer ICM. Let PS manage Color. The New R1900 Out of the box with epson ink and epson paper and Epson paper ICC. The print came out pretty close to my screen (i would say 95% to what i see). Black and red are a bit darker.
I than calibrated the monitor and the printer to the paper I will be using (epson glossy). Calibrator software creat a custom paper ICC profile. I than Select this new profile when printing. The Image came out 100% to my screen.
My old RX580 with ebay CISS, Cailbrated. Print come out 95% match
My epson 2200 with Ebay CISS, calibrated. Print come out 99% match.
You CAN NOT USE third Party ink WITHOU recalibrating or use Epson ICC. Samething if you change papers. You will need to calibrate a new ICC everytime you change Paper(every batch of same paper will have minor shift) or INK. Ink color will shift over time too.
It is not hard. I have colormunki.
1) It calibrate the monitor(taking ambient light into account. Most newer Calibrator does this).
2) Program calibrate the printer(Ink to paper). Prints out a color chart. using calibrator to scan the color. Program will create a ICC profile for the paper.
I always had problems matching the print out to the monitor till I brought the colormunki. Having a calibrator does save alot of time, ink, paper and headach.