diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriter.java b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriter.java
index 7279716b..21d66ba9 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriter.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriter.java
@@ -947,9 +947,9 @@ public final class TIFFImageWriter extends ImageWriterBase {
             throw new IllegalStateException("prepareWriteSequence() must be called before writeToSequence()!");
         }
 
-        if (sequenceLastIFDPos > 0) {
-            imageOutput.seek(imageOutput.length());
+        if (sequenceIndex > 0) {
             imageOutput.flushBefore(sequenceLastIFDPos);
+            imageOutput.seek(imageOutput.length());
         }
 
         sequenceLastIFDPos = writePage(sequenceIndex++, image, param, sequenceTIFFWriter, sequenceLastIFDPos);
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriterTest.java b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriterTest.java
index 9ea62f9f..8770f474 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriterTest.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageWriterTest.java
@@ -45,14 +45,14 @@ import javax.imageio.event.IIOWriteProgressListener;
 import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadata;
 import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadataFormatImpl;
 import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadataNode;
+import javax.imageio.stream.FileCacheImageOutputStream;
+import javax.imageio.stream.FileImageOutputStream;
 import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;
 import javax.imageio.stream.ImageOutputStream;
 import java.awt.*;
 import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
 import java.awt.image.RenderedImage;
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.*;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.nio.ByteOrder;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -337,6 +337,101 @@ public class TIFFImageWriterTest extends ImageWriterAbstractTestCase {
         }
     }
 
+    private void assertWriteSequence(Class<? extends ImageOutputStream> iosClass, String... compression) throws IOException {
+        BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(13, 13, BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY);
+
+        Graphics2D g2d = image.createGraphics();
+        try {
+            g2d.setColor(Color.WHITE);
+            g2d.fillRect(image.getWidth() / 4, image.getHeight() / 4, image.getWidth() / 2, image.getHeight() / 2);
+        }
+        finally {
+            g2d.dispose();
+        }
+
+        boolean isFileDirect = iosClass == FileImageOutputStream.class;
+        Object destination = isFileDirect
+                             ? File.createTempFile("temp-", ".tif")
+                             : new ByteArrayOutputStream(1024);
+
+        ImageWriter writer = createImageWriter();
+        try (ImageOutputStream output = isFileDirect
+                                        ? new FileImageOutputStream((File) destination)
+                                        : new FileCacheImageOutputStream((OutputStream) destination, ImageIO.getCacheDirectory())) {
+            writer.setOutput(output);
+
+            ImageWriteParam params = writer.getDefaultWriteParam();
+            params.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
+
+            try {
+                writer.prepareWriteSequence(null);
+
+                for (String compressionType : compression) {
+                    params.setCompressionType(compressionType);
+                    writer.writeToSequence(new IIOImage(image, null, null), params);
+                }
+
+                writer.endWriteSequence();
+            }
+            catch (IOException e) {
+                fail(e.getMessage());
+            }
+        }
+
+        try (ImageInputStream input = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(isFileDirect
+                                                                     ? destination
+                                                                     : new ByteArrayInputStream(((ByteArrayOutputStream) destination).toByteArray()))) {
+            ImageReader reader = ImageIO.getImageReaders(input).next();
+            reader.setInput(input);
+
+            assertEquals("wrong image count", compression.length, reader.getNumImages(true));
+
+            for (int i = 0; i < reader.getNumImages(true); i++) {
+                assertImageEquals("image " + i + " differs", image, reader.read(i), 5); // Allow room for JPEG compression
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWriteSequenceFileImageOutputStreamUncompressed() throws IOException {
+        assertWriteSequence(FileImageOutputStream.class, "None", "None");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWriteSequenceFileImageOutputCompressed() throws IOException {
+        assertWriteSequence(FileImageOutputStream.class, "LZW", "Deflate");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWriteSequenceFileImageOutputStreamUncompressedCompressed() throws IOException {
+        assertWriteSequence(FileImageOutputStream.class, "None", "LZW", "None");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWriteSequenceFileImageOutputStreamCompressedUncompressed() throws IOException {
+        assertWriteSequence(FileImageOutputStream.class, "Deflate", "None", "Deflate");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWriteSequenceFileCacheImageOutputStreamUncompressed() throws IOException {
+        assertWriteSequence(FileCacheImageOutputStream.class, "None", "None");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWriteSequenceFileCacheImageOutputStreamCompressed() throws IOException {
+        assertWriteSequence(FileCacheImageOutputStream.class, "Deflate", "LZW");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWriteSequenceFileCacheImageOutputStreamCompressedUncompressed() throws IOException {
+        assertWriteSequence(FileCacheImageOutputStream.class, "LZW", "None", "LZW");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWriteSequenceFileCacheImageOutputStreamUncompressedCompressed() throws IOException {
+        assertWriteSequence(FileCacheImageOutputStream.class, "None", "Deflate", "None");
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testWriteSequence() throws IOException {
         BufferedImage[] images = new BufferedImage[] {
@@ -409,16 +504,7 @@ public class TIFFImageWriterTest extends ImageWriterAbstractTestCase {
             assertEquals("wrong image count", images.length, reader.getNumImages(true));
 
             for (int i = 0; i < reader.getNumImages(true); i++) {
-                BufferedImage image = reader.read(i);
-
-                assertEquals(images[i].getWidth(), image.getWidth());
-                assertEquals(images[i].getHeight(), image.getHeight());
-
-                for (int y = 0; y < image.getHeight(); y++) {
-                    for (int x = 0; x < image.getWidth(); x++) {
-                        assertRGBEquals("RGB differ for image " + i + " (" + x + "," + y + ")", images[i].getRGB(x, y), image.getRGB(x, y), 5); // Allow room for JPEG compression
-                    }
-                }
+                assertImageEquals("image " + i + " differs", images[i], reader.read(i), 5); // Allow room for JPEG compression
             }
         }
     }