May be I am wrong, surely I can't find any similar post in this forum, I spent long time testing the proper photo print workflow wasting kg's of glossy paper, hundred of ml's of expensive inks and possibly steering my Photo R3000 future to b/w only and finally I saw the light.
I made the usual steps using the 6.71/6.75 Epson driver and many app's, PS LR QU CAPTURE GIMP SILKYPIX obtaining always unsatisfactory results. I did not step to scientific environment, meaning I just used the Epson paper-printer icc but I calibrated repetitively my monitor using X-Rite and Argille.
Results are poor, not justified by the paper quality alone: dark overall, cast shade, limited saturation, weak and dirty reds and too much different from display rendering. Testing (both on or off) application and printer driver as color manager makes similar worse result, suggesting there was already a phantom color management in normal situation or the os did not link to driver/app output.
However the solution using Epson Easy Photo Print are good.
Nothing compares to this, even pre-correcting in the opposite direction into mentioned app's could not achieve the wanted results.
As side note, Epson made some app plugins to print using Epson CMM (I.e, instead of using Adobe ACE) giving a better result however largely surpassed by EEPP alone.
Can anyone confirm?
