Ok, I’m home and have printed using the P2 curve. It’s still rubbish. I chucked the one done on the original curve so can’t compare side by side. I guess that Epson aren’t going to fess up and admit that their paper has changed. Is it possible to build a curve from what I sent you or should we just give it away.
It would probably be a good idea to put some sort of disclaimer about this paper. I would assume that others are going to find the same thing sooner or later. The only reason that I tried this paper is that Jon spoke highly of it and I could get it in Australia. I would prefer to use your papers but the freight cost makes it impractical.
I endorse Jeff’s comments. My view is that IJM should get a box of what is being shipped by Epson now and try it out. No point recommending it and supplying a curve for it if the current version of EEF behaves for others as it has for us.
If it would help, we could ship over a couple of pages of what is being sold here for you to try out. If you get the same results as us then that way you’d know it was the paper and how it interacts with your inks, and not merely our two printers.
There may be something odd going on, but if so then it’s affecting two quite different printers using different K7 inksets in two different locations with fairly different climates. Which is not impossible, but my money is on the paper.
We will produce a profile for any supported Epson printer model that uses the QTR driver for X800 or X880 printers.
If this were my printer - I would grab another and see if the same problem persists. Too many users with the same model not having your issues. But there are other users with same issue. Just less than a handful in comparison to boatloads. So, it’s difficult to troubleshoot your particular issues if not ink, if not workflow, if not methodology, if not environment. Only so much we can do for hardware or electrical or OS, etc… But, we’ll keep at it!
As I posted on another thread that Jeff is on (just to update this thread the same), we requested Jeff and other users having strange/bad output on Epson Exhibition Fiber paper to send us a few sheets of their paper for us to test and compare to the paper we’ve been using successfully. This will help us determine if the paper is different/bad.
in addition, I did a test on Friday and found that Exhibition Fiber looks better with the GO printed at 2880dpi/bi-directional, instead of the normal 1440dpi for GO on other glossy papers. I feel the one GO coat at 2880dpi looks better and is easier than printing two coats at 1440dpi, as we previously recommended with some papers, including ExFiber.
I was using paper donated by Jeff, so what he sends will cover me (although I doubt that any of this will be of much use to me, as I can’t see you generating new curves for the R1900, and at the moment I can’t imagine me ordering a custom one, given the experiences to date). Are you still planning on sourcing some from Amazon, as per post #24?
I just mapped the canned profiles of EEF and TPP for a post on LuLa, hoping to find a bit more on these two papers. They appear to me to be quite different so I then compared an IGFS profile that I made to the canned one and they are close. I’ll attach the grab. It’s looking to me like these are two similar, but different, papers. In the attached plot TPP is single colour while EEF is true colour.
I literally JUST discovered the GO printing at 2880 the other day, and need more time to test further, with more papers, etc… Once I do more testing and collect more data, I will certainly post my findings.
I am very suspicious that Traditional Photo Paper ISN’T the same as Exhibition Fiber, and will know more after testing paper sent from customers in different areas of the world. It just doesn’t make any sense to me that they’d call the same paper something different, depending on where in the world it’s sold… I have more confidence that your Hahnemuhle Photo Rag is the same as what we have in the US.
Thanks Dana, I have more faith in HPR too. Someone pointed out to me recently that Epson isn’t a paper company, and their paper offerings should be treated with suspicion. As this saga unfolds, that statement keeps coming back to me. The other thing I have discovered about EEF is that it gets a bad rap for fading of the base tone. Has this been your experience?
It’s also puzzling that EEF is sold in the US but not elsewhere and TPP is sold elsewhere but not in the US.
The case of EEM / EAM / EUPPMP (subject of another thread) is hopefully clearer, as the name has changed twice in the US but not elsewhere. That’s just a marketing decision, and the paper is only different if Epson in different regions is sourcing it from different factories / suppliers.
I know who makes Epson Exhibition Fiber in the USA, and have known him for a long time. And his paper is one of many papers that Epson does not produce but markets under its branding.
When an OEM uses a third party, they have the produced media and they have the Trademarked name of the Product. And they really are very separate. The Trademarked Brand Name is more important to the OEM than the media which it represents.
On the other hand, when a third party produces a paper - the media they produce and the Trademarked name are inseparable.
Even for a third party, consistency is very difficult to maintain over a decade or more. While the OEM can shift its Trademarked Brands from one media to another.
The third party dedicates his life to producing the best media that his company can. The OEM is interested in returns. There is no CEO/Founder type at the OEM. Rather, there is a bureaucracy of decision makers.
Agreed Jon, but are you saying that EEF is made in the USA? TPP says ‘Made in Switzerland’ on the box, and appears to come from Epson Europe. I want to get to the bottom of this, if for no other reason than the time invested.
However, I’m having serious doubts about it when I am being told on LuLa that I can expect my prints to go from neutral to brown pretty quickly. There seems to be general consensus that the OBAs in EEF are a serious issue. I’d hate to have someone who has bought a print on my doorstep complaining.
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