Paul,
Well, good news... the Cone carts worked fine, flawlessly! ...
Excellent. I'll be curious to see what MIS finds with the carts you mailed back.
Ran a test print, was a little disappointed but I'm sure it's because I chose an Epson Matt paper and I was using Premier Art FineArt. It was rather flat, poor DMax.
QTR usually gets a better dmax, but Eboni MK with most matte papers is about as good as any MK with matte paper.
Any suggestions how to improve my print with the Epson driver and non-Epson paper?
See the settings in my Eboni-6 PDF.
In general, an ICC that linearizes the workflow is the best way to go with the Epson driver. I have some basic curves in the Zip file that may help. (The GoDaddy ISP seems to be non-responsive today.)
I'll have to migrate soon to QTR.
Yes, highly recommended.
Got some ink blotches too ...
Epson "Enhanced" and "Presentation" matte versions have often been subject to that problem.
Paul