First prints.....2

After producing the first prints I was left feeling disappointed, the overall colour quality was very good, but my darling Sophie looked liked she had been boiled. After making a few corrections as described on page 4, Sophie looked like the baby you would want to love again, but at the expense of other colours in the image, particularly the reds and blues. I have resolved the skin colour, but not the rest of the colours. For the sake of giving you the full picture, I have included scans made of the original first print without any adjustments.

First print	9th print with custom adjustments
Above scans are of the original uncorrected First print
The above two scans are of the corrected print (corrected for skin tones)

I can only conclude that the new red colour in the ink set is giving wonderful saturation in an average scene, but for portraiture work the red is over generous. The swatches below show the pure RGB & CMYK values and how they have been altered by correcting the print for the skin tones. Ignoring the portrait, the overall print quality is excellent, but obviously the portrait is a central element in my review and therefore the overall marking must drop. I will continue to experiment and produce a custom profile to see if it resolves the issue, but would stress that this is not the solution I am looking for, the printer as supplied should produce accurate looking prints.

First print	9th print with custom adjustments

There is always a problem when scanning prints as colour matching can be slightly out. However, the above scans have been independently verified as being accurate. All scans were made on a calibrated Epson Perfection 4870 scanner.