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Profiling The Epson 7900

The document provides guidance on profiling Epson printers 7900, 9890, and 4900 using a library supplied by Epson for error diffusion and color management. It emphasizes the importance of selecting the correct media type and print modes based on the required black ink type, as well as the need for precise feed adjustments to avoid print defects. Finally, it outlines the steps for creating ICC profiles after printing the necessary patches.

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Profiling The Epson 7900

The document provides guidance on profiling Epson printers 7900, 9890, and 4900 using a library supplied by Epson for error diffusion and color management. It emphasizes the importance of selecting the correct media type and print modes based on the required black ink type, as well as the need for precise feed adjustments to avoid print defects. Finally, it outlines the steps for creating ICC profiles after printing the necessary patches.

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Profiling the Epson 7900, 9890, 4900

For these printers (and Canon and HP) we use contone. This means that we use a library
(HTM) supplied by Epson, this library do all the error diffusion and to a degree colour
management.

This means that profiling is very easy and the result is as perfect as it can be.

The library allows to profile in both CMYK and RGB. After having profiled more than 100
different media I have come to the conclusion that for media which needs matte black, it is
best to profile in CMYK, and for media which needs photo black it is best to use RGB.

Print modes
This is how the print modes for CMYK matte black 1440 looks. First of all you must never
change any parameter which has a lock like e. g. Resolution. The result will be unpredictable
and you will properly get an error. However there may be some templates where the Media
Type is locked, you may change that.

Let us say you are profiling a fine art smooth media. The first thing you do in the Print
Modes is to set the thickness of the media, it will properly be 0.4 or 0.5 mm. Then select the
nearest media type in the Media Type drop down list to the one you are profiling.

It will either be Velvet Fine Art Paper or UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper – it does not really
which one, both have more or less the same thickness and surface. It is important to note
that it is the media type you select here which determines black ink type, you can see here
that it is Matte Black. Please note that you must never try to change and select a parameter
which is greyed out, it will result in an error.

Now the Feed Offset, is used to set how much the media is feed for each pass, if it is too low
you can get dark bands and if it is too high you can get white bands especially at higher
speeds. The best way to find the Feed Adjustment is to print a 1 meter long line (after you
have set the Paper Thickness and Media Type), measure it very precise, and the difference
(in tenth of millimetre) between the measurement and 1 meter is the Feed Adjustment.
Example: you measure 1002.5mm, the Feed correction is then -25 (minus because the print
was too long). (I cheat and only print a 50cm long line and scale accordingly).

This is all you have to do in the Print Modes. It is the same if you are making a RGB profile
with photo black; you just select another media type. Also note that you cannot select the
same media for all resolutions. For example you cannot select a fine art media at 720, this is
a limitation enforced by the Epson library.
Single Ink Limit and Linearization

If you are making a RGB profile you will notice that Single Ink Limit and Linearization (and
Total Ink Limit) are Green ticked, so do not do any of them.

If you are making a CMYK profile you can do both, but you do not have to. If you do Single
Ink Limit Magenta looks shockingly low and you cannot change it; but believe me, Epson
knows what they are doing. You can do linearization, but you do not have to.

ICC Files

All left now is to print the ICC patches (RGB or CMYK) and create the profiles. Remember to
use a fair amount of patches 1500 – 2000.

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