tldr part:
Haven't printed for a while so I did the colormunki calibration for epson photo paper, and the prints got out very oversaturated, skintones were all reddish.
Long version:
Did a nice shoot of Japanese bellydancing group, lots of skin and got beautiful results from the 5d2 70-200L IS. Perfect skins (and a lot of it
) on my 3008wfp (just calibrated).
Of course the girls desperately want some printouts so I took my px-g5000 (I think it's R1800 in US) out of the closet and did some head tests. Lots of streaking so it took 4-5 rounds of head cleaning to get clean test results (and a few cartridge swaps, getting expensive...). After that I printed the calibration sheet, let it dry for 1 hour, then the next calibration sheet, dry 1 hour...
And the initial print came out pretty nasty. Skin was reddish, the print was slightly dark, quite different from my prints 6 months ago. I'm pretty sure I'm not double-profiling the prints:
LR3 print module -> choose the target paper profile created by colormunki -> disable color management from epson driver, choose proper paper etc...
I actually tried the stock paper profile from epson, looked much better although slightly de-saturated.
So what could it be?
1) double-profiling for some unknown reason (recheck)
2) inks that have been in for 6-9 months (swap all cartridges)
3) printheads are getting old (send for repairs, or buy a modern printer... maybe canon this time)
4) crappy profile from colormunki combined with #2
5) something else?
