Epson Photo 700: RGB or CMYK ?

[Gill Terry]

Can someone please tell me if the Epson Stylus Photo 700 is a RGB or a
CMYK printer? That is, should I convert my Photoshop images from RGB to
CMYK before printing them? I am confused by the manual which talks about
printers being CMYK but then says that most inkjets are exceptions,
being RGB.

Thanks,
Gill

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[Jeff Havard]

No, do not change RGB prints to CMYK prints in any software to be printed
out. The printer software only understands RGB, so a change to CMYK would
make the printer change it to RGB then pass it onto the printer as CMYK if
you leave as RGB there is only one conversion whereas there are 2 if you
change it to CMYk. People have reported that this yielded colors that are
far from the original colors.

Hope this helps,
Jeff
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[James Wakefield - Focus Online]

I though the ink carts were
Normal Cyan
Normal Magenta
Light Cyan
Light Magenta
Yellow
Black

So would this not make it a CMYK printer?

James
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[tonyp]

James Wakefield - Focus Online wrote:
>
> I though the ink carts were
> Normal Cyan
> Normal Magenta
> Light Cyan
> Light Magenta
> Yellow
> Black
>
> So would this not make it a CMYK printer?
>

Yes, but the printer (don't really know if it's the printer, the driver,
or a combo of the two) does the RGB->CMYk conversion. It *expects* to
see an RGB image being sent to it.
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-Tony (remove '.notrash' to reply via Email)

[k.t.chan]

Hi
All printer using YMCK ink is YMCK, but the rip can be YMCK or RGB.
The printer driver is a RIP Raster Image Processor.
The one from Epson is RGB, written by Zenographics http://www.zeno.com
There is YMCK drivers like Alchemy.
Use RGB files and ICC from Win98. The out come will be close, and do not
expect the blue and purple match the screen. It is because the RGB color is
wider then "YMCK ink" combination. It is ink problem.
I test some ink that is brighter then SWOP. Good looking. But not steady.

Regards

K.T.Chan

[Rafe B.]

On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 15:44:17 +0000, Gill Terry
<gi...@picture-house.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Can someone please tell me if the Epson Stylus Photo 700 is a RGB or a
>CMYK printer? That is, should I convert my Photoshop images from RGB to
>CMYK before printing them? I am confused by the manual which talks about
>printers being CMYK but then says that most inkjets are exceptions,
>being RGB.
>
>Thanks,
>Gill
>

Do NOT convert your images to CMYK !!!

The printer wants RGB files.

In point of fact, the Epson 700 is not CMYK;
it's CcMmYK. (Six colors, not four.)

If you feed it CMYK files, you lose out, twice.
Once when Photoshop converts from RBG
to CMYK, and then again when the printer
driver converts your CMYK file back to RGB
(as best it can.)

rafe b.