"tomm42" wrote in message
On Dec 6, 6:08 pm, "bernardlyall" wrote:
If anyone’s using an Epson Stylus Photo 1200, I’d be grateful to know what
papers work well with it. I use Photoshop for mainly darkroom-type activity
on b&w scanned negs, but different papers seem to have colour biases – there’s some Canon paper I’ve tried that came up rather brown, some other Epson stuff that comes up greenish – with genuine Epson ink or not, greyscaled images or rgb, different neg stock… all the same result.
All help much appreciated. Fairly new to this game.
Cheers,
Bernard
The 1200 is an 8+ year old printer, I have had 2 that both died, carriage mechanism developed a severe drag on both. Papers you want to look at are papers with swellable polymer base. The Ilford Classic series is one, the Epson paper recommendec for their 1400 printer is another. This printer had the same dye inks as the 1270 which caused a furor over chemical degradation 6or7 years ago. This is one printer I would recommend 3rd party inks for some of the 3rd party ink sellers also have profiles for their ink, printing from profiles is highly recommended, much easier than hunting for the proper paper settings. The paper that Epson recommended for this printer is long out of production, Epson changes paper structure quite often. Check Ilford they may have a profile for their paper, also call www.inkjetart.com as they may have profiles for their papers for this printer. Also do a head check, even with dye inks this printer would clog.
Good luck, you may need it.
Tom
Hi.
The 1200 Printer was discontinued around 8 or 9 years ago. From my, (rapidly failing), memory it only used 3 colour ink.
It was superceded by the 1270, which was quickly superceded itself by the 1280 (1290). These are quite different machines, and they do install a set of Media Specific Profiles along with the Driver. Lots of 3rd Party sites also supply Profiles for these machines
No Profiles, other than the generic one seem to be available anywhere for the 1200, 1200EX or the smaller 700. So the OP will have to stick with the old, thin, fairly low gloss Epson Photo Paper, or have a Profile written for Premium Glossy.
I know, because very recently I have been asked to help a friend who uses a 1200 to get correct colours. Once she gets towards the end of her supply of that old Epson Paper, I have arranged to Calibrate and Profile it for Epson Premium Glossy.
Should the OP want, I will quite happily Email him a copy of the Profile, but it will not be as accurate as one written for his specific machine.
From my memory, (again), I don’t think they suffered near as much clogging as the 1270,1280 & 1290.
Roy G