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Careful @The Hat, I hope you're not suggesting I'm all hot air!

..... meanwhile there was a "near miss" in the skies over Ghent. Not Photoshopped! Just a lucky coincidence.

This one was more interested in the nectar......

Glad you like it. Like you, I love the fact that it's so flat straight out of the box. That, along with the colour and the finish, was a big factor for one of my customers. Her framers were very unhappy with the curl on the Harman Gloss Baryta that we used for her work previously. Having said...

Yep! Quality doesn't come cheap, but if you're trying to sell prints then quality is important. If you prefer a "cooking" paper you might like this one https://www.fineartfoto.co.uk/olmec-photo-satin-260gsm-offer-/olmec-satin-inkjet-paper-260gsm-a4-x-50.html Only 23p a sheet for 50 x A4, and...

Get hold of a sample of Innova Warm Cotton Gloss IFA-45. It's a PK ink paper but has a unique combination of warm tone (no OBA), sheen and texture. Of course, being 100% cotton it's not cheap, but you can't expect anything that is a bit different to be cheap.

I've printed plenty of canvas on my 3800 and now on my 3880 with very good results. I buy 17" rolls and cut to the length I need. Canvas by its very nature is "soft" and doesn't retain any significant curl once it's cut from the roll, so forget any type of de-roller. To make feeding easier I...

As Ink stained Fingers suggests, the gamut volume, as a number, doesn't really tell you anything about the "quality" of a profile. The colour gamut of a printer/ink/paper combination is determined by the physical characteristics and any profile should yield more or less the same colour gamut...

But the "factory supplied profile" is for Epson ink - not Cone ink.

I think you are chasing shadows here. You are unhappy that your profiles show a smaller colour gamut than the manufacturer's profiles, but (for the same printing conditions) the colour gamut is determined by the ink, not by the profile. The fact is that the Cone inks give a smaller colour gamut...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but aren't you using Cone inks? If so, you wouldn't expect OEM profiles to give a good result, especially on such a demanding image as Bill's Balls.

Is this result with genuine Epson PK? I always get an L* of 5 or below on a good gloss/luster paper, and even lower using ABW.

The test methodology used by Aardenberg Imaging definitely takes account of the changes in paper colour. For those not familiar with their method they give two values of "Conservation Display Rating" - the Lower CDR is reached when the change in the three weakest colours reaches the critical...

You can do this with ArgylCMS. The -i parameter in colprof allows you to specify a custom illuminant (from actual measurement in your case) when calculating the profile. I've never tried it myself so can't say how effective it is. I prefer to avoid, wherever possible, illuminants with poor...

Just occurred to me that your original must be in ProPhotoRGB and I had assumed sRGB. I say this because if I assign sRGB or AdobeRGB to your original the skin tones are very yellow, whereas if I assign ProPhotoRGB they look normal i.e redder. Doesn't make an enormous difference in the colours...

Just for interest (things are a bit quiet in the run-up to Christmas!) I downloaed your original and looked at the range of colours relative to my monitor profile. Below is how it looks. The dots represent the individual colours in your image and you can see that they are nowhere near the gamut...

I'm not at all sure what's going on, but like ISF I'm pretty sure that the skin tones are well within the monitor gamut. Getting the print to match the screen is always tricky and you may need to try different screen calibration points. For example, I find I get the best match when I set my...

There is no reason why IFA-36 cannot be varnished, but I have found it to be very tough without varnish. In its natural state it is quite glossy so if you prefer a lower gloss then satin varnish would do the trick. For my matte cotton canvas I use two coats of satin varnish to get the finish I...

I often print canvas on my 3880, normally a 350gsm 100% cotton type, and I always fed from the normal sheet feed on the top. The biggest challenge is getting it to feed straight, but I always feed it manually before I hit the "Print" button, just to make sure it's OK. Incidentally, if you are...

AS long as there's not too much ink it's probably best to leave well alone. You really need to find out if the leak is because of a faulty seal on the cartridge or some damage to the pin in the printer that engages with the valve. You can give it a clean with a cotton bud for starters.