I find this highly interesting. My knowledge of printers and printing is rather limited, so your content on KZfaq and on your website have been a great help. Eventually I intend to buy a printer, for my wildlife photography.

Very informative and down to earth as always Mr. Keith. Thank You

great vid and info as always Keith

thanks, keep up the great work

Practically speaking, I found the color gamut on the Epson 7900's HDR 10 inkset to be fairly easy to reproduce most colors on high quality paper, except for reds and pinks, especially when trying to print macro flower images that had prominent shades of red or pinks, and violet. Sometimes I found that a REAL STRUGGLE! This is particularly important when that flower's red color would be a major part of the image. So when Epson announced this new inkset that included purple, I was thinking Epson has now succeeded in filling the biggest gamut gap. But they sacrificed one of the grays to do it, which I didn't think would be a big deal, but you're saying the various grays are mixed with colors too to make more accurate tonalities. So I'm a bit disappointed that Epson didn't include both. Maybe it would have cost too much to add one more ink into the machine, based on how their factory is set up. If I had a choice between light light black and violet, I'd still be inclined to choose the violet, so printing reds would be so much easier, and they could probably be more saturated as well, to make flowers with reds, pinks and/or violet colors more realistic and vivid. But I've never seen what losing light gray would do to images of all types. Since print reviewers aren't likely to ever have two printers to compare, one with violet and the other will light gray, how would we ever know for sure. Epson could easily show us the differences, but probably wouldn't want to show the disadvantages of choosing either violet or light gray. I'm mainly saying that I definitely struggled when trying to print flowers with reds, pinks or violet in them with the 7900, because the gamut was so limited. I thought they needed to add another red color before I ever heard it from others. Their choice of the addition of violet is probably perfect. In landscape prints in general, a wider red gamut may not seem important. But pinks and reds can often be prominent in many sunrise/sunset images. I struggled with getting some sunset photos to have powerful enough colors in the red/purple gamut area. It seems that Epson's addition of violet would solve these color problems I experienced, so "out of gamut" wouldn't happen as often, and they can be more easily saturated too, producing stunning skies and flowers.

This is a question not related to the topic of this video, but I'll give it a go nonetheless. It is about printing without an ICC profile. I have an Epson XP 15000 and not all manufacturers include this printer in their ICC catalogue. Probably for good reason But I still want to ask if there are any kind tips and trick for printing without an ICC profile. Can I use an ICC profile for a similar style of paper, for instance. Or should I just avoid this alltogether? I suspect the latter, but just in case it would be an interesting subject for a video, I would love to hear your take on it 🙂

I've got a question that is perplexing me Keith lol. So my little Epson ET2650 has very limited media settings, those are 1) Epson Premium Glossy 2) Matt paper 3) Plain paper. That's ya lot! So here is my dilemma. I use Epson Premium Glossy 6 x 4 paper. In my Lightroom print module I set it to " let printer driver control colour ". In the Epson driver I select the media type to be...you guessed it, Premium Glossy. In the more options tab within the colour corrections I select " automatic ". My print comes out pretty much as per my calibrated monitor, so all is good. Just out of curiosity I printed the same image, this time in the more options tab I didn't select automatic but instead went into custom then selected " ICM ". This print comes out very dark despite everything else being exactly the same. Now perhaps I'm wrong but I was expecting both prints to be essentially the same. Why, well I've told the driver I'm using epson premium glossy ( which I actually am ) so you'd expect that irrespective of whether I select automatic or ICM its going to use the drivers I embedded ICC profile for epson premium glossy. Given that's the only one I can choose it shouldn't have other profiles it can use. Can you shed any light on why this might happen? Ironically I'd have expected the print where it was instructed to use " icm " to be the more accurate one given automatic isn't specifying that I use Epson Premium glossy's specific profile. Very odd isn't it? 🤨