I really don't know what he did with that tomato ...
Maybe he's a bit outdated here, though running a great shop.
Seems its going to be the 7890 then.
Now, that I have decided for a printer - how releveant is profiling oneself?
I heared contradicting opinions - one guy told me, I would buy a colorimeter for profiling within 6 weeks, another said I should not waste money on that and let experienced people do the profiling for me and maybe in rare cases loan a profiling kit over a weekend. All of the dealers offer to make profiles for me if I buy the printer and/or paper at their shop.
Ideas ?
Nah - its the tomato - sorry, in the Atkinson/Outback test page its strawberries - the nicest, reddest strawberries I've ever seen. So some printers obviously do better with tomatoes than others, whereas strawberries are all the printers' best friends :-)
OK, back to serious - profiling -
A number of approaches:
(1) If you are using Epson papers, start with Epson AMERICA's own profiles. They are very good, and these printers have a very high degree of inter unit consistency.
(2) If the shop is offering free profiles for a number of papers you'd like to try, let them do it and test them in your printer. So far all is free.
(3) Next you get to pay - if you are not satisfied with (1) or (2), once you've nailed the paper or several papers you are likely to use most, get them custom-profiled. Much less expensive than (4)-
(4) Buying your own profiling kit - minimum requirement: a very good spectrophotometer and the software.