Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Robert Morrison 
<rmorrison@p...> wrote:
One warning to
> those interested in the Ultrachromes though...is that the dmax 
is poor
> except on EAM  (the Ultrachrome EAM dmax beats MIS-FS/EAM 
by about 0.1) .
> Photorag isn't bad but it is lower than the black you get from 
MIS FS black
> on photo rag (about .07 lower).  Overall the photo matte blacks 
are very
> poor without coating.


Ouch! You would go so far as to characterize the black as "very 
poor"? I might not go that far.

But yes, the blacks are "somewhat less than optimum". EAM is 
good, and PhotoRag is good. But they're not the blacks that I 
used to get on my 7000, using ESFA and the MIS 1270 type dyes. 
I'll agree with Robert on that.

I am using the standard Epson driver with a custom profile. I 
profiled it this time using PhotoRealistic/gamma 2.2, instead of 
the standard NoColorAdjustment in the Epson driver. The first 
profile I got back was a tad greenish, but I tweaked it with Kodak 
Colorflow, by adding some magenta, and the new profile is pretty 
sweet.

Robert's got one of my prints, coating it. He claims a very good 
increase in black density after coating it. That certainly got my 
attention.

-MT, http://marktucker.com/