It may come as a shock to some, but I am a Canon man.
Some years ago, I had an Epson printer and decided to take advantage of less expensive third party inks and paper. I saved a fortune, but the results were mediocre and within three months, it completely gummed up the machine. An expensive mistake, so I bought a new Canon i9950 A3+ printer and in the 16 years I owned it, only used Canon ink and paper.
Now I have a Canon Pro 10S printer and continued to use all Canon consumables, but I wanted to print on matt paper, rather than my usual Pro Platinum Gloss, but my Canon Pro shop was out of stock. A friend offered me a couple of sheets of Permajet Fibre Based 285 Matt and I had a quick play using the Canon Matt paper settings. The black & white trial came out quite good, but not the colour trial ............ the colours were a bit muddy, so the Canon profile wasn't anywhere near good enough.
I decided to persevere and ordered some Permajet paper and downloaded the paper specific profile from their site and the results were quite stunning. Probably the best black & white I have ever printed for quality and the colour print was the closest I have seen to my screen. They also do specific colour profiles for individual machines, so my next step is to download their colour patch, print it and send it off to then for a specific profile and they do this free of charge for any of their papers. I am a happy bunny!
Here is the mono that I printed and the print looks better than on the screen. Slap a window mount around it and I can't wait for the judges comments.
C18I5058d by Colin Cross, on Flickr
Some years ago, I had an Epson printer and decided to take advantage of less expensive third party inks and paper. I saved a fortune, but the results were mediocre and within three months, it completely gummed up the machine. An expensive mistake, so I bought a new Canon i9950 A3+ printer and in the 16 years I owned it, only used Canon ink and paper.
Now I have a Canon Pro 10S printer and continued to use all Canon consumables, but I wanted to print on matt paper, rather than my usual Pro Platinum Gloss, but my Canon Pro shop was out of stock. A friend offered me a couple of sheets of Permajet Fibre Based 285 Matt and I had a quick play using the Canon Matt paper settings. The black & white trial came out quite good, but not the colour trial ............ the colours were a bit muddy, so the Canon profile wasn't anywhere near good enough.
I decided to persevere and ordered some Permajet paper and downloaded the paper specific profile from their site and the results were quite stunning. Probably the best black & white I have ever printed for quality and the colour print was the closest I have seen to my screen. They also do specific colour profiles for individual machines, so my next step is to download their colour patch, print it and send it off to then for a specific profile and they do this free of charge for any of their papers. I am a happy bunny!
Here is the mono that I printed and the print looks better than on the screen. Slap a window mount around it and I can't wait for the judges comments.
C18I5058d by Colin Cross, on Flickr
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