Cyberkinesis70 Loc: Northern Colorado

I have the ET-2750. While it it uses very little ink in the printing process. Since I don't print a lot over a period of time, the nozzles clog. I think I use far more ink in the power cleaning process than on any print job I've done. It is still pretty economical, it just is aggravating to have to spend 15-20 minutes to clean nozzles.

Cyberkinesis70 Loc: Northern Colorado

I had difficulty printing photos with mine. I got a profile for it and allowed the printer to make the adjustments instead of Photoshop. Even printing pictures the Epson still uses less ink than the HPs I had before it. I would buy a new printer every time I ran out of ink on the HPs. It was actually cheaper. I think it is part of Hewlett-Packards plan to fill the landfills of the world as quickly as possible.

barneyanne Loc: Alabama

Just print something colorful every couple of days. That should take care of the nozzles.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Did you make a custom ICC profile for the Kodak paper, or download a generic one from Kodak that they made specifically for the ET3750, that paper, and the right Epson inks? If so, did you install it, and turn off color control by the Epson driver, while telling your software to control the color?

Are you using a monitor calibrated and profiled with a kit from DataColor or X-Rite?

Did you answer 'No' to any of those questions? Then that's why your prints on Kodak paper look so-so.

I've never understood why people put third party papers in their printers without using the right profiles. Different manufacturers coat their papers differently. They may appear similar, but the coatings make all the difference in the way prints appear. OEM paper prints nicely because the print driver automatically applies the correct ICC profile when you set the correct paper type.

I've never understood why people use an arbitrary, uncalibrated office or laptop monitor to adjust color of photos, yet expect prints to match the screen... There IS a universal standard. If your monitor is not calibrated and profiled to meet standard, your prints won't even come close to matching it, regardless of the lab or printer used.

Be sure you don't DOUBLE profile by letting both your software and the printer control color. Use the driver for OEM paper. Choose profiles in software for third party papers. TURN OFF ONE WHILE USING THE OTHER.

Just some pointed lessons from an ex-portrait lab manager...

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

Everything you say here makes sense, and I'm sure right on the money. For me though, the reason I never bothered to buy calibration tools for my monitors was because for me, the colors looked good.

I take a pic of my cat, and it looks accurate to me. For printing, I really don't print photo's all that much, almost never now that I have this ET-2750. My beef is that I cannot get this thing to print decent photo's while every other color printer I've owned printed my pics fine, good enough for me anyway. Also I've sent my photos out for larger prints, 16x20's, and they always come back looking fine, just like my screen, or close enough that I don't notice a variation.

I'll buy some Epson paper to see if that helps, but my Canon and HP printers worked fine with my Kodak and who knows whatever paper I used. My prints with this printer are not off a little either, they are pretty bad, and my prints with my older printers were maybe not perfect, but not bad imo. I'm not real picky, but more picky than this printer has produced.

I again want to add that this printer is great in ink usage, and it prints documents, including colors, just fine, and I would recommend it in a heartbeat for those looking for a document printer. I don't know if Canon or HP make a similar printer with similar economy ink tanks, but, I would seriously look into them if I wanted to print both pics and documents. If you have a nice photo printer and print a LOT of documents, and want a second printer just for text, with great ink economy, this one should do you well.

truckster Loc: Tampa Bay Area

Of course, my answers to all your questions is a resounding no!

Thank you for taking the time to share your wealth of information. Even when I used an HP photo printer I used Costco as my photo printer. Just because they were more cost-effective.