I've noticed some weird behaviours regarding Paper settings in the driver when printing on coated papers earlier on and was reminded of them after reading posts in the DPReview Epson forum.

Maybe it's a glitch, maybe there's a reason e.g. print quality, but here's the general gist of it:

Depending on paper type selected in the driver, the Printable Area options (Standard/Maximum) on the Paper tab are greyed out. It doesn't appear to be a case of coated vs matte - if it's not a glitch it'd be interesting to know more e.g.

> Select Archival Matte - Standard/Maximum greyed out.
> Select Enhanced Matte - Standard/Maximum available
> Select Single Weight Matte - Standard/Maximum greyed out.
> Select Plain Paper - Standard/Maximum available

I noticed this when printing on coated and matte stock initially but didn't think much of it, as typically my prints are laid out to fit well within my selected cut and roll paper sizes anyway.

Can anyone confirm that behaviour on their system?

I started printing on Canson Canvas on the 4800 today and am very pleased with the results so far. I should have a custom profile for it in the next day or two and will be posting further - I'm working on a series of new products using Canvas and Rag.

Thanks to everyone who has visited and posted comments and/or emailed me in the last few days. Apologies in advance for the delay in replying, I'm working my way through them.

I'm busy this week finishing off renovations to our house and am only online in the evenings.

PS. It's not clear in the blogging interface, but you can view each post and all related comments by clicking the time stamp below each post.

The upgrade to the 4800 has encouraged me go back and rework a few of my popular images from Raw onwards. My gut feeling is there is more to come from the 4800 (not that I have seen anything to complain about) and the weak link could be my files.

In the years since my first raw shots were taken and processed, converters have improved significantly. I've upgraded converters and improved my workflow along the way - but haven't gone back and reworked older files with each step forward.

It may be another peace of mind thing - maybe it's getting way too anal about small improvements vs effort required - but I think it's worth revisiting a few of my source files, reprocessing them and seeing how the prints compare.