Colour continued....

Here are the close up samples of the reels. As I said on the previous page, I will try to get a better yellow out of this printer, as it stands using the printer in the fully auto mode it is looking washed out. The black reel has maintained detail throughout, the brown is probably the best brown I have had from any printer reviewed to date. The red reel is vibrant with a good tonal differentiation between the adjoining orange reel. The yellow, well I will work on this to see if I can improve on it. The green looks wonderful, this should please the landscape photographers as will the excellent rendition of the two blues. All in all the test print sample is a very accurate rendition of the original, it closely matches what I am seeing on screen.

Good solid black which maintains the detail	Reds are vibrant
Green is excellent but the yellow ....	Good blues, slight hint of magenta in dark blue
Epson R1800 swatch	HP 8750 swatch

The bottom colour swatch shows how neutral the R1800 colours are, compared with the HP, which perhaps errs a little on the over saturated and warm side.

Update.

There has been quite a lot of concern on the forum regarding the sharpness of the eye shot. I must admit I was also surprised that the Epson R1800 didn't display a sharper image. I have spent some time going through the various adjustments, head alignment, nozzle checks etc. at here is the final result.

First print on R1800	print after head alignment etc.

There is an improvement in image sharpness, especially in the pupil. I must stress that this is a very big enlargement and that under normal viewing you would not see a marked difference between the Canon and Epson print. If anything I would prefer a slightly softer looking print to avoid images looking too "Digital", you can always sharpen and boost the contrast in most images.

The next page will look at colour using a variety of images