Epson ET14000

[JMugs]

Well stay away from it unless you want to print in Black, White and Pastel shades!

I have no idea what Epson think they are doing but this printer really cannot handle colours. The best it can manage with reds is a sort of brown, you may get it to a brownish orange, but it's going no where near a pillar box red! In fairness pillar box red is a big ask anyway but my 1500w on sub inks does better on plain paper than the ET. My wife has an HP printer, this also does much better and is four colours like the ET 14000.

Amazon will be sending a hit squad out! This one is being returned (really not fit for purpose), and the 1500w before that just didn't want to work so was returned.

I can only assume that the inks are not up to the job. If I fiddled with all the settings I could get some reasonable depth of colour (not red!), but really I shouldn't have to dig deep into the settings and change everything, just to get a reasonable approximation of what is on the screen. In draft mode I would accept this, but not at it's highest quality setting.

When I did a preview of the profile in Coreldraw it was looking through the mist into whispy shades of pastel hues. Great if that was intended, not so great when the image is supposed to be strident bold colour.

Oh well somebody had to see what it did.

AND its really is just a 4 colour 1500w with a CISS, I am sure epson would say otherwise though.

Enough time wasted today, so tomorrow I am going looking for a 1500w locally.

Janners

[malkram]

Which ink did you use? And did you have a custom ICC profile made ?

[JMugs]

Hi malkram
As I wasn't using it for sublimation I was using the supplied Epson ink. It shouldn't need a custom ICC profile for general printing to standard paper. However I did do my own custom profile just to see how far it could be improved. The custom profile made very little difference, I would guess the limitation is due to the density of colour the inks are able to get down.
When I did a preview in Coreldraw with the supplied profiles, it showed just how muted the colours were. So it wasn't the printer should be printing decent colours, it just couldn't.

Janners

[mags1892]

Id suggest the profile is incorrect i get good colour from that printer with pigment inks.

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[JMugs]

I tried the epson papers with epson ink and epson profiles, then my own profiles and papers etc. However, I am wondering if there was a problem with the printer, it just didn't appear to get much ink down no matter what was tried.
Even gloss photo printing on epson gloss paper was....naff!