kevin@photopxl.com As the print emerges from the printer, it is held in a nicely designed pull-out tray that has a gently sloping gradient preventing the page from falling to the floor (Figure 22).
This is explained in Annex 1. There will then be two versions of the SC-P900 printer driver in macOS Preferences>Printers and Scanners.
Epson will be producing a new profile for this paper, but the timing is uncertain; once it becomes available I shall retest it and report the results on this website. The result with CB ON is a bit less linear than that with CB OFF, but neither of them are strictly linear. To determine the average ink cost per square footprinted specific to this model, it will be necessary to track the square footage printed until enough cartridges are replaced that an estimate of the volume of ink used can be matched against the aggregate square footage printed. In this section, Ill focus on using an ABW option for several CB results from Legacy Platine (Figure 33). Well get to that. By step 5, all the controls needed to flavor ABW to taste are available. Thats all there is to it. This amount is greater with less printing and smaller with more printing; as well, it increases with greater print size. The color and tonal gradations are all pretty much identical and looking very good. (7) The LCD then says there is Canvas 17.01 inches loaded. Note that for Epson Canvas materials the only available resolution in the driver is 1440 dpi., and for Matte finishes CB is not available. Now that Im set-up, lets see the size of this printer compared with an SC-P5000 (Figure 7). While Figure 57 (Roman 16, BVDM) is a B&W test image specifically designed to test printing conditions for the quality of dark tonal appearance thus not fully compliant with Epsons recommended best characteristics for revealing the value of CB, it does help to reveal the contribution that CB makes to good tone separation.
(The latest version of the Manual for this printer is here, and it now includes sections on printing with Mac OS. After loading the ink, we place a sheet of plain paper into the top feeder and then install the driver.
I must say this LCD is a pleasure to work with. This would provide the highest quality print for Epson Legacy Fibre paper. Optionally, the speed/quality mix is manageable by selecting the Print Quality (red arrow) dropdown and selecting from the choices available for this paper (the Standard and Quality choices are not available for this paper). The rendition of Black and handling of shadow detail depend more on the users photo editing skills, on the paper used, and on driver settings rather than on technical differences between these printers, possibly save for the new Black Enhance Overcoat/Carbon Black (hereafter CB) feature of the SC-P900, that Ill discuss in detail further on. (6) Most importantly now, you are back in the Photoshop Print dialog, where you want to make sure to select Landscape orientation (red arrow, Figure RF 5). As before, High Speed enables bi-directional printing (I assess it further on). I base the cost of ink on the current offers available in Toronto for the complete inkset, which works out to CAD1.31/ml including 13% sales tax. This required making two profiles (CB ON/OFF) and two evaluation target prints (CB ON/OFF) for each profile. Just to get a feel for the sheer difference of gamut volume between the printer profiles relative to the image colour contents, I examined it all in ColorThink Pro (CTP) (Figures 61, 62, and 63). Once weve made our settings in the driver and in the printing application, we are ready to print. The small package in bubble-wrap at the back is a spare maintenance tank. Both the 4th and 5th positions give us 5760 DPI quality, but the micro-weave differs a bit between them I am told not to an extent most human eyes would see in the size range of prints we would generally make with this printer. Epson recommends checking for the availability of a firmware update. Turning to the cases with ABW engaged, Figure 42 compares CB ON&OFF with ABW ON using ABSCOL. 
Now, let us see the relationships of the photo to these gamut volumes (Figures 62 and 63). Ideally one would like all results to fall below the horizontal Red bar, set at dE = 1.0. Once the printer is happy with its ink supply, it will pull up a menu in the LCD asking you to confirm the media type and size, and with roll paper, it offers you the option to print a cut line just beyond the end of the print; I selected that option. The gamut volume and maximum Black of much canvas media are quite limited (in the case of Epson Canvas Satin about 512,387 and L*22 respectively (versus over 800,000 and L*3 or so from a high-quality Luster paper in this printer). Both the two- and three-dimension projections tell the same story. Theoretically, one is supposed to notice differences beyond a dE value of 1.0, but very often the differences need to be larger than that to be disturbing when comingled in a print having tens of thousands of colors. We are working hard to not only create content but also to build a robust site that can be expanded upon over time.
Become a member and gain access to our new features including high-resolution images, privacy options, higher photo upload limits, multi-photo uploads, night mode, and more! or 1.51mL/sq. So I can highly recommend this combination of the SC-P900 with Epson Legacy Fibre paper, processed under soft proof in Lightroom and printed through the Epson driver using standard application-based color management with ICC profiles. CB ON (Figure 48 right panel) provides 1.2 levels deeper Maximum Black and slightly more contrast (tone separation) at the very bottom of the scale versus CB OFF. width now becomes 17 and height 48. The manual also provides guidance on moving from a wireless to a wired connection, in which case it appears unnecessary to re-install the driver. Just before that one tip not in the manual you can install the printer for both wireless and USB connectivity. There are quite a few mini-steps here, but this is easy to do and youll accomplish it in less time than it takes to read all this unless you speed-read. As usual, we can make Driver Presets of any combination of driver settings we wish to preserve for future use (the Save as New Preset option in the driver Print Settings). The color print is of a mural in downtown Toronto done by Okuda San Miguelthat has excellent properties for this evaluation; the other is a B&W conversion of a color photo I made from a hotel room window in Paris at about 6:30 AM November 2019. Click on Paper Size, then scroll to the bottom and click on Manage Custom Sizes (Figure RF 1).
Michael Durr is one of themore creative and fun videographers I have ever met. To use this iPhone/iPad app you need to set-up your SC-P900 printer as a wireless device. Click on the + (my Black arrow) to create a new name, type in a name for the size preset (I use the dimensions). Application Manages Color: Once embarked on this path, printer color control options are greyed-out to avoid conflicting color management (Figure 9). Epson has provided a user-friendly approach for customizing all these functions, with strategically produced nag messages to help us avoid mistakes. The Red and Green arrows point to the two-dimensional gamut representations of the profiles for the SC-P5000 and the SC-P900 respectively. Please sign up today. Also, there are single strands of hair over the boys eyes which require a low-power magnifier to see. There is so much talent out there.
PhotoPXL is an idea to create a place of community where those with a passion for photography can come to learn and share. One can make prints from mobile devices (phones and pads), complete with color management and ABW mode using the Epson Print Layout App, available in the App stores (Ill demo it in the software section at the end). Were looking for the differences these settings may make to Black density and the shape of the rendered tone curve from L*1~L*100 in ABW_Darker mode. Smaller differences between image reference values and their printed values will be less noticeable in real-world printed photos than would be larger differences. (3) As instructed on LCD, place the paper into the holder.
If you look closely at the upper rendition in the very dark shaded area and the immediately surrounding rusting supports and pipes, you will see an ever so slightly more pronounced rendition of dark shade detail and contrast. It has dedicated channels for Matte Black and Photo Black inks, eliminating channel sharing and switching that consumed time and ink on previous Epson models. Printing it on Baryta paper at highest quality: 5760 DPI resolution, High-Speed OFF and CB ON, took 9 minutes, 44 seconds.
Epsons instructions for doing this could be improved, so I provide detailed guidance first, then show the app. Its also interesting to look at the detailed grayscale tests for these two cases (Figures 37 and 38 for cases H and I respectively). The first thing I noticed is the similarity of the results having CB ON or OFF. The data for patches 35, 36, and 37 are excluded because they are deep Blacks out of gamut for this paper (and matte papers in general). Culling from the range of options I analyzed above, I decided on several key comparisons for Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper, Epson Legacy Platine, and Epson Legacy Fibre. Ill discuss Maximum Black, Brightness, Contrast, and Linearity all by reference to the graphical evidence of the red curves from the printing of the dark zone target for each of the eight conditions depicted in Figure 39. The answer cuts different ways depending on your situation and needs, so Im not telling anybody what they should buy; but I do provide information facilitating a decision. Generally speaking, a profiling result will test more accurately when the same instrument and printer are used to both make and evaluate a profile, compared to when they differ between making the profile and evaluating it. CB ON provides a slightly deeper Black point (less than an L* Level) versus CB OFF. To bring you great content we depend on your support. Small differences of gamut between printer models in the same general class dont matter for most photos. Epson advised me that the impact of including violet ink is more apparent in the rendition of Blue than of Violet. These gamut projections in CTP are done by using the true-color rendition for the SC-P900 printer and paper profile, the white wireframe rendition for the SC-P5000 printer and paper profile, and the decomposition of the photo into about 44,000 unique colors represented by the true-color dots you see scattered largely inside the true-color sphere of Figure 61.
You are given the option to carry on regardless (risking stoppage due to empty ink during printing) or to replace the ink. Black and white printmaking produces a visually neutral grayscale in this printer, provided ones color management, ICC profiles, etc. If you havent found it yet, keep looking. The more granular detail in Figure 29 indicates very moderate departures from strict linearity and strict hue neutrality, but they are not large or discontinuous enough to have a visual impact on the perceived quality of a B&W print. Beware, however: if you install using USB and want to switch to a wireless operation, according to the manual you need to uninstall the driver and re-install it as a wireless device, following the network set-up instruction in the START HERE sheet. No overhead (e.g. Figure 45 is a statistical summary of the findings for Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper for the Dark tones (Levels L*1 to L*35). OK, enough about tape and unpacking. However, I must highlight the fact that these are early estimates, therefore tentative, and information that depends on ink consumption per print is necessarily inaccurate because there is no accurate data about how much ink per print this printer uses. The Speed/Quality slider for this paper has only two available notches: the 4th from the left provides 1440 DPI quality, as shown in Figure 12, and the last one 5760 DPI. An amended version of my previous review of EPL is included here as Appendix 2. Were seeing a broad similarity between the two cases (CB ON or OFF) with ABW active. A better-drafted manual would certainly be helpful, but for the most part, users will find the answers to unanswered questions with a bit of poking around. The OEM and Mark CB ON profiles have about 2% larger gamut volume than does the same paper in the SC-P800 printer (which was 820,422). These are simple differences of printed versus reference values that would generally be smaller if measured with dE(2000).
The new Epson Media Installer is most useful for customizing and registering new media types, whether of Epson or third-party papers; this makes their usage convenient and far less prone to error. (Note: The Baryta Paper Type was generic pending a specific paper; the driver is now updated with a specific Baryta paper, being Legacy Baryta II, forthcoming early 2021. We are fortunate to have him as part of the team. Gently drop the paper between the gray guides, letting it hit the bottom (Figure 8), and slide the gray guides to the edge of the paper. I selected borderless printing because I wanted to see whether this printer would really do that accurately and without making a mess. Figure 53 shows summary data for these comparisons. So the remaining question is whether Dark would be a satisfactory mid-point setting not too dark, not too bright. Its very clear. If you lined it up properly, it will not be skewed so touch OK: After clicking OK, the paper will load. So its like trying to unscramble an omelet. These are narrowly defined direct costs and depend only on the assumptions made; in particular, the volume of ink per square foot printed remains to be determined for the P900. What matters to printer economics about starter ink is how much remains in the cartridges after the initial fill. In printer-lingo, the width is the width of the printer carriage, for this model maximum of 17 inches, and the height is the length of the pano being printed. A word about the photos: Starting with Figure 65 color print, this mural is 23 stories high.
This will be a place where you can share your images with other readers and see what others are doing with theirs. After 38 days of use, the charge turned out the same. To get roughly equivalent USD value, divide CAD by 1.35. At least two features allow this: firstly, in the middle of the target there is type going down to 2 pts. The deepest Black achieved so far, not using ABW, is Case F, at 2.69.
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The outcome is very subtle, but it exists. So one tries them, looks at the outcome, and decides whether one likes it or not. For example, let us say the intent is to make a 1319 inch print using stiff media to be fed through the front paper feed. The quality of our best inkjet matte papers and ink-sets is good enough these days that with good profiles one can obtain very rich-looking results on this media. Black points are similar; there is ever so slightly more brightness in the rendition from Levels 2 to 19 in RELCOL (expected); from L*19 or so upward, RELCOL produced a slightly more accurate rendition than ABSCOL, with slightly better linearity. Joining me in this adventure is long-time friend and videographer Chris Sanderson. This site is about the community of photography, a place where young and old alike can share their stories, learn about the art and craft of photography, and gain an understanding of what it takes to Enhance Your Vision. The EMI allows me to create a Media Type linked with my custom ICC profile that I can subsequently pull-up every time I want to use this paper in this printer. Thank you. The five main parameters of print quality are color gamut, color rendition, Blacks and shadow tones, detail rendition, and smoothness of tonal gradations. None of the printers Ive ever reviewed render image file color values with total accuracy, but they can come close enough that the inaccuracies are immaterial.
If you set that slider to the final position, CB gets turned on and greyed-out. Youll find a summary of all the major points at the end of the article if you want to scroll down. The touch screen control panel is large and bright with easier access to the various printer functions, making it much more user-friendly than previously and a delight to use. Photoshop, Lightroom). For this paper, by selecting Quality Options in the dropdown, the choices of whether or not to use High Speed and Finest Detail are workable. The first bit of specialty tape one encounters is outside the box, having the name Epson imprinted throughout. It is also automatically registered in both the printer driver Printer Settings menu and in the printer itself, accessible through the LCD (Figures EMI 15 and EMI 16). One can also do it Wireless or via Ethernet. Epson was kind enough to provide me the test image the company used in its Sales Reference Guide to demonstrate the CB advantage. I say appears because the technical conditions for testing the two printers are not strictly the same. (6) The foregoing allows calculation of the fixed Levelized monthly machine amortization charge (in this example CAD 42.37 cell K6) based on book value of the investment. Linearity with CB ON looks slightly better from L* 19 upward than CB OFF, but slightly worse below L* 19. The Blue bars are dE(76) results and the Green bars dE(00) results per patch. (b) Legacy Fibre paper, 5760 DPI, NO CB, High-Speed ON: 3 minutes, 41 seconds. Pulled cartridges can be reinstalled if they are not completely exhausted. The bars depicting hue bias are generally well below 1.0 for all but five levels at the dark end of the tone scale and none of those exceed 2.0. While all of the foregoing analysis focused on the Dark tones (L*1 to L*35), I prepared one test of how ABW works for the mid-tones and highlights, and I was not very pleased with the test results. EMI processes the request (Figure EMI 6): You are prompted for your computer password (Figure EMI 7): EMI enters into processing (Figure EMI 8): Once processed, a screen opens allowing you to prepare for editing the media type copy (Figure EMI 9). Although it doesnt affect printer usability, perhaps Im not the only one who would like to have data from the printer on ink usage. The quality options the driver provides differ depending on the Media Type because CB is applicable to gloss-type papers only. ABW and CB have different technical aim-points. Comparing the results for both Figures 27 and 28, both profiles perform well and similarly for the grayscale, the Mark profile showing a bit tighter adherence to target values than the OEM for reasons explained above. Like so much in life, once you know how to do it, its easy and works fine. Plus, we will have many articles from a wide range of well-known and maybe not so well-known photographers. People making B&W prints on Legacy Fibre paper in ABSCOL would indeed see the first 14 L* levels squished into one indistinguishable blob of deep gray, which would be photographically unacceptable for many photos. It will be a piece of cake for those accustomed to Epson professional printers, or a fairly painless learning curve for those who are not. The 2-pt type is readable in both, and the strands of hair over the eyes clearly visible a bit more distinct in the SC-P5000 print. The three-dimensional projection is the two spheres for the two printers. I verified this under an illuminated magnifier with several papers whose coatings are sensitive to markings. For people who are relatively inexperienced with the fine art of making successful B&W photos from color images, ABW is useful for making basic conversions and provides workable general adjustments for brightness, contrast, and toning; however, it provides much less of the more granular kind of control over tonality that more experienced amateurs and professionals would prefer to have. Adding it all up, per standard print in CAD: Ink 0.74 (uncertain), Total 2.36 (In USD excluding sales taxes: 1.55). Once this completes, another screen appears indicating that the connection is made. The amounts would vary according to quite a few variables describing the character of and printing conditions for each image, and no such information is provided for anyone image to be able to produce representative averages covering many images. As well, Ill demonstrate here certain key new features and what they mean for prints. However, in Photoshop it is the other way around, and this is where confusion can begin. Profile characteristics are similar between the OEM and Mark profiles (Figures 24, 25). Once the print is complete a message in the LCD gives you an option to Eject and Cut which is the one I selected, as it moves the end of the print fully out of the printer and exposes the printed cut line, which really helps to make a straight cut. When you print a nozzle check the firmware version is shown. Finally, there is fairly significant blue hue bias from about Level 24 upward. I happened to have recently completed a photo-shoot of another fabulous Nick Sweetman mural in downtown Toronto and thought his violet warthog with the swathes of blue paint through it may do the trick (Figure 60). If one used brighter tone settings in the ABW driver, the red curve would lift further up from the reference values (black line). The data are the average differences from target values for each section of the scale. On the main site, look for more visits with some very well-known photographers where well share their vision in our series Shooting with the Masters. There will be exclusive, behind the scenes segments where well bring you things you havent seen before. Something dynamic, and evolving. ABW is said to be advantageous for producing B&W files in a quick and easy manner, toning B&W photos, and for increasing lightfastness. I created 17 x 48. And what would be the impact with versus without using CB? The three cases portrayed in Columns F, G and H all show close and satisfactory results for the 48-patch multicolor test and for the gray-scale granular targets in rows 24 to 34. When making custom profiles for such papers, one may print the profiling targets with CB on or off. Its seamless and keeps the printer features up to date. ABW adds essentially nothing to Black density compared with a good ICC profile (compare Columns C or D with Column E in Figure 53.) The other two feeds are the front feed for thicker media exceeding 0.50mm thickness, and the optional roll holder for roll paper. The linearity of both Red curves in Figure 48 is a bit shaky but would be of low visibility in print. The one downside regarding usability is the quality of the manual, which could benefit from explanatory improvement in various sections. Because this is a matte paper, CB is not an available option, so it is greyed out even when selecting Quality Options, which opens everything that can be user-determined. To some extent they are offsetting: more quality, less speed; Ill show the trade-offs below.
This small difference of gamut volume in and of itself is very unlikely to make much difference to the appearance of printed photographs from either printer. Click Save. They are all about the look and feel of the print the artistic impression. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment, materials and techniques over the years, accumulated substantial experience as an author, educator and communicator in several fields, was a frequent contributor to the Luminous-Landscape website and now contributes frequently with in-depth articles on the PhotoPXL website. Please note the difference of the numerical values in the dE scales on the left side of the graphs; the error range is much lower for Case H than for Case I. Figures 35 (Case H) and 36 (Case I) provide a graphical comparison of the difference between highly satisfactory and less satisfactory outcomes respectively. We will not only notify you when we launch photoPXL.com but will also keep you posted on the progress we are making on creating this site. It performs a lot of installation seamlessly.
This comparison informs us that the observations made below for ABSCOL could be largely valid for RELCOL as well. 
After six weeks of printing, Ive printed about 67 sq.ft. So, if you are in the market for a new printer and you were thinking of either an SC-P900 or an SC-P5000 and space were an issue, this gives you an idea of how they compare.
Each produces a different gamut volume (Figure 31) and Black Point, where one sees that the profile with CB ON has a slightly wider gamut than that with it OFF, particularly so for the dark tones (right side of Figure 31). Once this process finishes, as indicated, it turns the printer off and on again, and leaves you with the LCD Home screen, ready to print. Much more conveniently, if you establish a wireless connection, then in the LCD go to General Settings >Firmware Update>Notification and set it to ON, the printer will check for available updated firmware when you turn it on, and if it finds any, it will prompt you to install it from the LCD. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. In ABSCOL mode, we can see comparing the left (CB ON) versus the right panel (CB OFF) that CB provides a Black point about one-half level denser than without. Rendition accuracy is very good, the average for the 48BB combined colour/B&W 48 patch-set being 1.2 dE(76) and 0.73 dE(00). Where high dE outcomes predominate, we know in this context that there is a problem related to profiling. The letter-size Baryta paper I have been using costs me about CAD 1.30 per sheet including 13% sales tax.
The results are that both prints resemble the target image very closely and they are indistinguishable from each other, confirming for a broader range of colors the observations made about the warthog photo (Figure 60). There will also be a forum where you can ask questions and share your knowledge, further developing the sense of community. I was particularly surprised to observe that hue neutrality is better preserved with my standard ICC profile than it would be using ABW. From this list select the Epson Media Type and name that the paper manufacturer recommends for this media. In Case I, while the Luminance curves are generally quite linear throughout the tone scale, they indicate a systematic tendency to print tones that are around a couple of Levels too bright. Some of the OEM dE(76) results have larger values than desirable. I do this for one gloss-type paper (PK ink) and one matte paper (MK ink), being Epson Legacy Platine and Epson Legacy Fibre respectively. 
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