Epson ET-8550 scanning artwork to make greeting cards on fine art papers and card

Keith Cooper looks at many different aspects of producing high quality reproductions of artwork on greeting cards with the Epson ET-8550 EcoTank printer

00:00 Start
00:26 Use the right paper/card
01:22 Using fine art media
03:34 Printing ICC profiling targets
05:14 Why the ET-8550 benefits from profiling
10:06 Creating a profile
10:31 Scanning artwork
12:40 Using Epson scanning software
13:14 Using VueScan for scanning
15:34 Printing the greeting cards
18:50 Print settings examples
19:46 Printing the cards
21:19 Printing times for making lots of cards
23:32 Looking at the cards

Starting with making a custom printer profile, he looks at what is needed for the best print quality from the ET-8550.

After paper profiling, the built-in scanner of the 8550 is used to create image files suitable for printing.

Due to serious website problems at the time of testing, the scanning article was later included in the main review at:
https://www.northlight-images.co.uk/e...

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