Digital BW, The Print

On 9/21/02 7:02 PM, "Mark Tucker" <mtucker508@...> wrote:

> --- 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 color printing, I think that the Ultrachromes look like they work ok
with Photorag...but with black and white printing you will get better dmax
with other black inks.  The sample print that I saw with eclipse had an
acceptable dmax (for eclipse), 1.59, but there were definite ink load issues
at 100% black.  Its likely that several of the 3rd party papers may work
work with the Ultrachromes, but it does not appear to be plug and
play...requiring at the least custom profiles and perhaps another driver
(e.g., Imageprint).

Robert

PS  Mark, if you have driver settings for Eclipse that make it work, please
share...thanks.