Digital BW, The Print

>Where are these new curves?

I thought the Files section and MIS had them.

I'll send the full non-sepia set to the appropriate people.  I have curves
for both EAM/EEM and the new (was to be released this month) Epson
UltraSmooth Fine Art (EUS?).

This new cotton, non-optical-brightened paper appears to be the first cotton
paper that does not have a problem with flaking.  I also find the lack of
optical brighteners a plus.  The paper tone looks great next to matte board
(I use Light Impressions Exeter Gallery White), which allows a plain paper
boarder to show for signing.  (A brightened EAM board next to the creamy
white over mat looks bad, in my opinion.)

The sepia toner & curves just pull the already warm gray inks to full sepia.
I'd only recommend them if you want to dedicate a machine to sepia.  The
UT-Sepia inkset, unlike the vm-s inkset, will not print a neutral tone.  The
toner is designed to allow the Bowhaus system to pull the gray inks either
direction.  Now if Bowhaus will just get me a PC version ....

I really only use sepia for competitions with color prints, where it really
helps offset the lack of color in the B&W print.  Since the toner has yellow
and magenta pigments in it, there is metamerism (although it is hidden by
the sepia tone) and the ink will not be as fade resistant as the UT warm
curve (almost pure carbon).  So, for old photo reproductions where I want
the most archival materials, I stick with the straight UT warm on cotton
paper.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com