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Ultratone summary request

2003-07-20 by Matthew Carlisle

I've seen a lot of talk of the new Ultratone inks during my occassional
lurking, and am very excited to hear that these inks will soon be available
in pre-filled carts for the 1280!!  (I don't print enough or have the
inclination to mess around with filling my own cartridges or using one of
those CFS system things - I'm lazy like that)

During the aforementioned lurking activities, I took mental notes and I
think this is where I am:

1) I should get blacker blacks on matte papers (due to new Eboni ink I
believe)
2) I will have the ability to print on SOME glossy papers, or perhaps just
some semi-gloss papers.  The question is:  which papers?  I've seen posts
about Epson Pro Glossy not being so good, and also perhaps the Premium
Luster.  How about Pro Semi-gloss, or other papers that I probably haven't
even heard of?

I find the look of a matte print OK, but there's just something I like more
in a semi-gloss print.  Don't know what it is - perhaps it just looks more
like a photograph to me, as opposed to a very nice quality "computer print".

I'm absolutely going to buy some cartridges as soon as they're available,
but would appreciate a general summary from those that have tried these inks
during the experimental phase.

Thanks!

    Matthew




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