What you say about blue colours is interesting. Before ordering a new printer a couple of months ago, I did very extensive testing on 3 printers: - HP Z9 - Canon Pro-4600 - Canon GP-4600S (the 7-ink version of the Pro-4600) The HP was in many ways in a class of its own, but I had worries about future support, so ended up doing more detailed comparisons between the two Canons. There were hardly any differences between the two that could be seen without watching the prints side-by-side, with one exception: the blue colour, particularly blue skies. The 7-ink printer consistently printe blues that were more blue and also slightly more saturated. Considering the fact that this printer doesn't have a separate blue ink, I found that puzzling. And no, I couldn't see any differences in gradients, maybe with the exception of some gray tones. Since the the GP version is also quite a bit cheaper and according to Canon consumes less ink, that's the printer I ordered. The printer will arrive in a week or two. We'll see if I regret the decision.
For those who work on Windows and don't have money to buy a calibration tool, there is a little know function that will help a bunch. Just click on the start button and type "calibrate". It will pop-up a manual calibration tool that's actually decent. While it will not bring the accuracy that a dedicated device will, it's still a lot better than nothing.
Hello, Stephen: Thank you for this video. I have enjoyed your channel's content since I found it here on RUclips. If you don't mind, what is your opinion on whether a dye printer or a pigment printer is better for printing monochrome images. Does it matter? Are there advantage or disadvantages?
It all depends on what type of paper you’re going to print on. If you’re printing on precision inkjet material, I would probably lean towards a pigment based printer or a quad tone print or a K6 / K7 print set up from Jon Cone/ Inkjet Mall. However, if you’re printing on uncoated or hand coated or fine art paper then the difference is far less. In terms of Look and feel the dye printer that I’ve mentioned in this video will be a little coarser and a very dark flat black It’s quite beautiful. Pigment printer will have a little better tonality because there are more inks to work with, however on a handmade or uncoded paper, you are not going to see that much of a difference. I once ran a test where I printed a portrait on some uncoded paper from Bhutan and did one version on my Epson P 9000 as a grayscale and one version on the HP T650 printer and it was pretty split 50-50 people liked both for different reasons.
Hi Steve, does it make any sense to map a raw file on Photoshop with Adobe RGB if the file has been taken with a camera that shoots with sRGB color space ? Thank You for Your dedicated time!
It will just map the space into a larger space but you can’t really create color that is not there in theory. But having said that run a test doing it and not doing it on a glossy sheet and see if you see a difference. You may as the method of mapping to the printer (not sure what yours uses) may use the larger space in a better way - there’s a lot of variability in printing.
Excellent vid, thank you!
You are welcome!
What you say about blue colours is interesting. Before ordering a new printer a couple of months ago, I did very extensive testing on 3 printers:
- HP Z9
- Canon Pro-4600
- Canon GP-4600S (the 7-ink version of the Pro-4600)
The HP was in many ways in a class of its own, but I had worries about future support, so ended up doing more detailed comparisons between the two Canons. There were hardly any differences between the two that could be seen without watching the prints side-by-side, with one exception: the blue colour, particularly blue skies. The 7-ink printer consistently printe blues that were more blue and also slightly more saturated. Considering the fact that this printer doesn't have a separate blue ink, I found that puzzling. And no, I couldn't see any differences in gradients, maybe with the exception of some gray tones.
Since the the GP version is also quite a bit cheaper and according to Canon consumes less ink, that's the printer I ordered. The printer will arrive in a week or two. We'll see if I regret the decision.
For those who work on Windows and don't have money to buy a calibration tool, there is a little know function that will help a bunch. Just click on the start button and type "calibrate". It will pop-up a manual calibration tool that's actually decent. While it will not bring the accuracy that a dedicated device will, it's still a lot better than nothing.
Hello, Stephen: Thank you for this video. I have enjoyed your channel's content since I found it here on RUclips. If you don't mind, what is your opinion on whether a dye printer or a pigment printer is better for printing monochrome images. Does it matter? Are there advantage or disadvantages?
It all depends on what type of paper you’re going to print on. If you’re printing on precision inkjet material, I would probably lean towards a pigment based printer or a quad tone print or a K6 / K7 print set up from Jon Cone/ Inkjet Mall. However, if you’re printing on uncoated or hand coated or fine art paper then the difference is far less. In terms of Look and feel the dye printer that I’ve mentioned in this video will be a little coarser and a very dark flat black It’s quite beautiful. Pigment printer will have a little better tonality because there are more inks to work with, however on a handmade or uncoded paper, you are not going to see that much of a difference. I once ran a test where I printed a portrait on some uncoded paper from Bhutan and did one version on my Epson P 9000 as a grayscale and one version on the HP T650 printer and it was pretty split 50-50 people liked both for different reasons.
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Hi Steve, does it make any sense to map a raw file on Photoshop with Adobe RGB if the file has been taken with a camera that shoots with sRGB color space ? Thank You for Your dedicated time!
It will just map the space into a larger space but you can’t really create color that is not there in theory. But having said that run a test doing it and not doing it on a glossy sheet and see if you see a difference. You may as the method of mapping to the printer (not sure what yours uses) may use the larger space in a better way - there’s a lot of variability in printing.
Love your stuff, but sorry the background music isn't one of the things I like.