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Color Performance Summary |
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 • Color accuracy is generally good, but some problems with blues and greens
• Very wide color gamut
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Print Speed |
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Detail Performance |
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Color Accuracy (6.28)
The purpose of a photo printer like the R1900 is to print photos, and you want the colors in your photos to be as accurate as possible. That's what we test here; how accurately the printer can reproduce a wide range of colors, and the R1900 did an excellent job; we found that colors were generally accurately reproduced, but there were some larger errors with some of the blues and greens. For more details on how our color accuracy tests are done, see here.
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Epson R1900 Color Accuracy Comparisons |
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Original Color |
Epson R1900,
Default profile, Epson Premium Photo Paper
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Epson R1900,
Custom profile, Epson Premium Photo Paper |
Epson R1900,
Custom profile, Ilford Galerie Paper |
Canon Pro 9000 Mk II
most accurate mode |
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| Light Skin |
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| Blue Sky |
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| Foliage |
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| Blue Flower |
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| Bluish Green |
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Original Color |
Epson R1900,
Default profile, Epson Premium Photo Paper |
Epson R1900,
Custom profile, Epson Premium Photo Paper |
Epson R1900,
Custom profile, Ilford Galerie Paper |
Epson R1900,
most accurate mode |
| Orange |
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| Purplish Blue |
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| Moderate Red |
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| Purple |
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| Yellow Green |
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| Orange Yellow |
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Original Color |
Epson R1900,
Default profile, Epson Premium Photo Paper |
Epson R1900,
Custom profile, Epson Premium Photo Paper |
Epson R1900,
Custom profile, Ilford Galerie Paper |
Epson R1900,
most accurate mode |
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| Green |
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| Red |
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| Cyan |
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Original Color |
Epson R1900,
Default profile, Epson Premium Photo Paper |
Epson R1900,
Custom profile, Epson Premium Photo Paper |
Epson R1900,
Custom profile, Ilford Galerie Paper |
Epson R1900,
most accurate mode |
| White |
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| Light Grey |
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| Mid Grey 1 |
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| Mid Grey 2 |
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| Dark Grey |
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| Black |
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| Mean Color Error |
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8.55
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7.87
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4.78
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NOTE: Because of the way computer monitors reproduce colors, the images above may not match the results used for evaluating color accuracy. The chart should be used to judge the relative color shift, not the exact printed colors.
As the charts above show, the R1900 did have some issues here: the blues and greens in particular had some larger color errors. Although our custom profile (which is created using an Eye-one Color Match system) lessened the color error in some areas, it made things slightly worse in others. We got better performance printing onto Ilford's Galerie photo paper, which seems to be slightly thicker and absorbs ink a little better. Many serious photographers have particular types of photo paper they prefer, so it is worth doing some experimenting here if there is a certain type that you like.
Canon Pro 9000 Mark II
Color Accuracy Score Comparison |
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Color Gamut (6.39)
Color Gamut describes the range of colors that a printer can reproduce; the wider this range, the more colors a printer can output to the page. The R1900 did very well here: we found that it could reproduce a much wider range of colors than most, handling 47% of the Adobe RGB gamut, which is significantly wider than the Canon Pro 9000 Mark II. What this means is that the Epson can do a better job of reproducing colors that are at the extremes of the gamut: if you look at the gamut graphs below, you can see that the Epson's gamut is much wider in the green area of the gamut. The Epson also had much better coverage at the bottom of the graph, meaning that it could better reproduce darker shades of colors. For more details on how we measure color gamut, see here.
Epson R1900
Gamut Score Comparison |
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