Now the real burning issue is how does the gamut and print quality compare to Epsons flagship (soon to be the norm on all their printers) 11880 on different media types.
-Jonathan
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I have been using a 6100 and an 11880 for a while now. While I'm no expert in Color management, I do have good tools and am pretty careful when making profiles. I have made profiles for both printers using identical practices, that being Bill Atkinsons targets, for photo papers using 4096 or 5202 patch targets, for matte art papers or canvas I usually only use the 1728 patch targets.
Targets are read using Measure Tool and and EyeOne i0 table. Profiles are created using Profile Maker 5.0.8, using the same settings for all ... Large, Perceptual intent paper color Grey, Logo Colorful, and D50.
While both printers achieve outstanding prints and the 6100 is definitely a big step up from the 5000 I tried, the 11880 is creating much larger profiles and exceeds the gamut of the 6100 on photo papers. I have yet to profile my 11880 for matte papers so I can't say if the same will happen.
I have attached a couple of images just to give an idea of the difference. I want to caution all reading this that I am not expert enough to claim that the large difference in gamut means the output is vastly superior ... in fact while I believe the 11880 output is slightly better, I am very pleased with quality of the 6100. I'm just passing along some information, since I'm one of the few that have worked with both printers for a few months now.
The first one is comparing Epson Premium Lustre ... I suppose it could give the Epson an advantage but I'm personally not interested in any Canon Papers. Details in Color Think pro
Gamut volume 613k vs 822k, black (L) values of 4 vs. 3
Kodak paper details, gamut volume 612k vs 735k, both read L values at 3.
The Canon profiles were producing using the Special 5 setting, which is borderline "overspraying" some color. I'm not sure if some of the other paper settings would produce a much larger gamut, because I do know some have produced gamut volumes far larger than what I'm seeing. I'm not sure if that's because of the software they are using, or if they are using other paper settings and increasing ink load substantially.
One thing I do believe, on photo papers the 11880 can push very high ink loads onto the paper because of its head technology and precise dot placement. So far I haven't tried to increase the ink load such as Joseph Holmes has, I've just used the standard values for Premium Lustre paper on the Epson.
Again ... don't flame me here, just passing on some info that I've seen so far. Both printers are terrific.
So the second one is comparing Kodak Prof. Lustre.