Epson ColorBase Review at Luminous Landscape
Luminous Landscape have reviewed Epson ColorBase, a new free program that is designed to calibrate the R2400, 4800, 7800 or 9800 printers.
“My own testing shows that the visible difference between printing with the calibration file active, and not, with both Epson’s provided profiles and my own created with Gretag Macbeth’s Eye One for my 4800, are very slight, but visible. On Enhanced Matte, my usual paper, I can see a slight increase in red density, as the most obvious difference. According to Epson the real value in the use of ColorBase is when you are using multiple printers of the same type and wish to bring them all as close as possible. You could thus create one custom profile (or use Epson’s) and then use that profile on each printer, allowing the ColorBase calibration done on each printer to bring them all to a matching factory standard. Since I don’t have multiple K3 ink printers available, I can’t test this myself, but it sounds plausible.”