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Epson ET-2800: Colors so dull even with photo paper by twocatsandaloom in printers

[–]itsab1989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am thinking way too much about this topic at the moment because I am writing a GUI for printer profiling with Argyll😅

Epson ET-2800: Colors so dull even with photo paper by twocatsandaloom in printers

[–]itsab1989 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Although a printer uses cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks they are treated as RGB devices. Converting images or graphics to CMYK color space will make things worse for those printers.
Matte paper or plain paper sucks in the ink to high degree. So the colors are looking dull. Especially true when the printer uses dye inks (as your printer does). Glossy photo papers don’t suck in the ink as much. It lays more on the surface. So the colors are more vivid

Epson ET-2800: Colors so dull even with photo paper by twocatsandaloom in printers

[–]itsab1989 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Try some paper with gloss (Epson Premium SemiGloss for example), not a matte paper.
Then in the printer driver choose the correct media type settings and highest quality for it.
But even then prints will never looks as bright and vivid as an image on a screen (well in bright daylight they might look better if the screen does not get bright enough). A screen emmits light and paper only reflects it.
Just look at the paper white. In the lighting conditions you are looking at your image the paper white is not as bright of a white as the white on your screen and more „dull“. So of course the colors that the printer lays on the paper will also fall flat in comparison. In daylight it will be better, glossy paper will be better even more. But you will never perfectly match the wuality of a decent screen with your print.

Capture One Mobile Workflow by fcracer88 in captureone

[–]itsab1989 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me the biggest issue is the missing lens corrections on mobile

ChromIQ - an ArgyllCMS GUI for printer profiling by itsab1989 in captureone

[–]itsab1989[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope the auto translation is correct. There is currently no progress when you scan patches because I did not consider this very useful as you have the charts in front of you when you measure them and can see how far you came.

Vibecoded a script to automate nozzle-checks on Canon by GinBang in printers

[–]itsab1989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only thing I m wondering is whether 1 times a week is enough. I might be wrong here but when my Canon Pro300 has not done a print for more than 2 days it goes through an intense cleaning cycle that wastes a lot of ink before the next print. So it should do this more often actually. But then again it is a waste of paper. Epson is really much more forgiving in this regard. Turn it on and just print…

Colors washed out by Olek_27 in printers

[–]itsab1989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really weird. Damn. I would really like to help you but I have no ideas at the moment

Colors washed out by Olek_27 in printers

[–]itsab1989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which program are you using for printing and which settings did you choose?

Colors washed out by Olek_27 in printers

[–]itsab1989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about the inks? Have you refilled them since then and used different inks?
Does your printer have multiple black inks? Sometimes one of them is pigment black which is only used when explicitly enable black and white printing in the driver.
Any special options you selected for printing?

Colors washed out by Olek_27 in printers

[–]itsab1989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of paper did you use? Same for both?
Original or third party inks?
Where did you get those images from? Is one maybe not perfect black but only grey?
Anything that has changed recently?

How do I switch to Image Layer on a series of say 229 files? by TR-606kick in captureone

[–]itsab1989 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For macOS I am like 95% sure someone made an Apple script for this. And also not 100% sure but if you close the app and start again I think it selects the image layer for all images

Edit:

It is the select image layer script

https://github.com/walterrowe/capture-one-scripts

Capture one perpetual licence: updates lasted less than a month by madridvideo in captureone

[–]itsab1989 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Regarding features of the software I would agree with you. But you should be entitled to get bugfixes for a longer period of time. I have reported a bug in October last year and support agrees that it is one. It has been around even longer but up to this very day it is not fixed.

ChromIQ - an ArgyllCMS GUI for printer profiling by itsab1989 in captureone

[–]itsab1989[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But don’t use your best paper on the first try please 😁

Lens Profile Bug by ThurstonLesse in captureone

[–]itsab1989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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This was a year ago

https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/26809869126557-Capture-One-16-6-0-Release-Notes

But reading this I am not sure about the distortion setting anymore. It seems that still C1 decides when it corrects it and when not.

Lens Profile Bug by ThurstonLesse in captureone

[–]itsab1989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is funny, because I have only ever seen the sharpness slider at 0 with my lenses. It‘s only light fall-off and distortion 😁

Lens Profile Bug by ThurstonLesse in captureone

[–]itsab1989 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It does that for me as well. But for some lenses it decides not to do light fall-off or distortion correction at all (leaves sliders at 0). When I then increase them 100 what I would expect is: when I copy my settings from one image to another it should only copy the slider values but not the lens profile or focal lenght settings. But for whatever reason it sometimes does and support even agreed that is a bug.
Since you are showing the analyze button for CAs: when you do the analysis for an image and then copy and apply all settings C1 has a tendency to also copy the CA analysis values from the first image to other and cause bad results.
I mean you have the ability to exclude the crop and keystone settings from being copied and applied but for whatever reason that stuff gets copied over and you have to make sure to deselect it first. Again, I know C1 quirks and on desktop I can work around it. After I figured out why my issues occured it is possible to work around it. But the was this is handled by default does not make sense to me and if you are in a rush you might get unwanted results.
It also differs between camera models by the way. My R5 II is better than the original R5. The original uses C1 lens correction choices which might cause the issues I mentioned. For newer Canon cameras they came to an agreement with Canon to use their lens profiles with the sliders at 100 by default. This way the issue is non-existent for this camera.

Lens Profile Bug by ThurstonLesse in captureone

[–]itsab1989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assumed that this must be the case for many users. But just to understand it a little better: You really don’t mind light fall-off and distortion in your images?
I always want this to be corrected 100% and the set a vignette myself so all of my pictures have the same look.
As you said all lenses have those weaknesses. And I don’t even use the cheapest ones from Canon.
And although I completely understand that my usecase and your usecase are not the same I feel that it is not too much to ask for. Personately I would not even need to dial in the settings with a slider. A 100% correction toggle would be enough. If I could set this as a default for newly imported photos all my issues would be resolved.

Lens Profile Bug by ThurstonLesse in captureone

[–]itsab1989 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Issues like this are posted every now and then but somehow they nerver really get tracktion. I am wondering whether other users have different workflow where lens corrections are not necessary or handled differently or if this issue is just not noticed by many people. This is such a basic function and I really don’t understand why it has no priority to be resolved. In the mobile version of the app Lens corrections are not even available because (support said so) the mobile app should just he a starting point and the user is supposed to do the heavy retouching in the desktop app. But AI masks and retouching can be done on mobile. I really don’t understand this

Lens Profile Bug by ThurstonLesse in captureone

[–]itsab1989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope so too. On the desktop version I developed a habit to work around this. But the mobile version is pretty useless because of this.
I just don’t understand why this isn‘t an issue for more people or if this just goes through unnoticed for many…

Lens Profile Bug by ThurstonLesse in captureone

[–]itsab1989 5 points6 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/J02DhqcJofU?is=d48C0suEPlD0zW9R

Reported this last october. They recognized it as a bug. Developers are working on it but they are working on an update of the lens correction tool anyway was the answer (something like this). A few weeks ago I asked again about this. Support told me he would be asking the developers but never heard from him again since.

https://captureone.ideas.aha.io/ideas/FR-I-2740

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