Help Colour Management for Epson R1800 Inkjet

[Tara1]

Hi

I have an Epson R1800 printer and am having loads of problems with it. When I bought it I purchased PowerRip X from Iproof so I could print directly from Quark - Mac (colour management off) but colours never seemed remotely true whatever settings I tried, even pure magenta came out as purple. I have also tried PrintFab which is a bit better but gives me a liney print. Whatever method I use either direct or via a rip I just seem to end up with a magenta or cyan cast. I don't need spot on colours but at the moment grey looks like purple. Does anyone have any ideas please? I didn't have these problems with my Epson 1290.

Failing that could anyone suggest an A3+ printer for printing rough proofs to show clients. The majority of printer seem targeted at photographers with 8+ colours. Anyone tried the Canon Pixma i4000?

Thanks for your help

[zumojuice]

grey is purple? magenta is purple? mmmmmm it sounds like a ink issue to me.

[tommylogic]

Have you created an .icc profile for your monitor / printer?

[Tara1]

Hi

I downloaded a profile from epson and tried using that for my printer.

[tommylogic]

you have to profile your monitor as well. Make sure the colors you see match the actual true colors.. Adobe Gama was the pre-CS3 solution that actually worked well.

[zumojuice]

the colour thing from monitor, program to program and output is possibly the ****iest thing in the world.

[Tara1]

I have an Imac and tried the settings it gives me to calibrate. I have picked Native (to this display) for he white point, is this correct?

[tommylogic]

Here's a decent article explaining it all...
Calibrate Your Printer

Remember.. the medium on which you print will also reflect the color profile