Re: OEM Versus Hobbicolors ink in Canon Pixma: THE TESTS


"frank" <fb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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BD wrote:
Grandad35, a participant on the Nifty-stuff forum, has discussed custom
profiles and has one for his i9900 Canon printer with Formulabs inks from
Alotofthings. You would need to calibrate your monitor accurately as
well.


Yes, I'd been considering buying one of those Eye One devices or
something in that ilk.

What kind of gets me (and I concede I don't know the first thing about
how ink is formulated) is that... OEM ink is not a moving target. What
was BCI-6 cyan two years ago is BCI-6 cyan today. We're talking about
creating three different colors, and a black. So I am forced to wonder
what it is that makes it such a challenge to accurately emulate OEM
color gamuts. You'd think that trial and error over time could allow
ink formulators to 'dial in' each color over time, to near perfect
accuracy.

But I guess I'm looking at it from the same perspective as
color-matching paint... which, it would seem, someone at my local
hardware store can do pretty well, without a whole huge amount of
experience or education - just an 'eye' for the effects that a change
in a primary color can have on the final color balance.

So - asking this not as a facetious jab, but a genuine lack of
understanding of what's involved - what is it that makes it so hard to
balance or emulate three little colors?

BD

Well let me ask another interesting question:
how come when I first got my i9900, using the supplied canon oem ink and
canon paper, I could not get an accurate, color matched printout of what I
was seeing on the screen?
Frank

Frank - When I bought my i960 Canon printer I used the OEM carts until they
needed refilling. I then ran the same photo files with MIS inks. Both
tended to lean toward red/magenta and the OEM prints were somewhat
oversaturated. Although I own and enjoy using three Canon printers I have
read that their color profiles are not the best. What was the tendency with
the i9900? Also toward the red tones?


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