Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Robert Morrison <rmorrison@p...> 
wrote:
> As far as a number of us can tell, the new ultrachromes only work with EAM
> for matte printing.  Results are really poor on other 3rd party papers.


I would offer another opinion. (Wasn't that diplomatic?).

I have found that the Ultrachromes work VERY well with EAM, yes, but also with 
PhotoRag and BrightCube Eclipse Satine (which is gone now). Even the canned 
profile of EAM works great. All of these papers are, of course, for use with the 
matte black ink.

For glossy or semi, use the PhotoBlack, and try Luster Epson. Many people 
report nice results with that, but I can't speak first-hand; I only use matteblack 
and matte papers.

For critical work, to avoid color crossover, a custom profile should be made.

There has also been some talk this week about a discovery that NO COLOR 
ADJUSTMENT does not lay down the ink in such a linear matter, and that some 
people are discovering that PHOTO REALISTIC in the Epson driver is more linear. 
This of course, renders all your profiles unusable, and you've gotta start from 
scratch, but I found that interesting. I have not verified this myself. (Secretly, 
the concept of this seems odd to me; I would not want two different things 
fighting each other, a profile and PhotoRealistic; NCA seems to turn off 
everything, and just let the profile do it's thing).

MT, http://www.marktucker.com