Digital BW, The Print

Hmmmm.....how would I find out the paper's dMax?  If it is any help (UK to US) this 
paper is sold exclusively by Legion in the US as Somerset Photo Enhanced Velvet 
(there is also a Textured variation).   I believe it is also the same paper as Epson 
Velvet Fine Art (not available in the UK).  See:

http://www.inkjetart.com/news/archive/IJN_11-05-02.html

(This page raises another question - are the UT inks pigment or dye?)  I am not at all 
familiar with Brightcube Eclipse Satine but am I right in assuming from the above 
article that the paper would be closer to Hahnemuhle Photo Rag? (which by the way 
costs at least twice as much as Somerset in the UK).

Thanks again

Steve




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield <scho@m...> 
wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> I haven't used this paper, but if the dmax is relatively low try the  
> the BES profiles.  The approximate relative dmax order for the three  
> paper profiles I made are EEM 1.70, HPR 1.64, BES 1.56.
> 
> Carl
> On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 04:19  PM, kiwikale wrote:
> 
> > Many thanks to Roy for making all this hard work available and to Carl  
> > also for doing
> > the 2200 profiles.  I have just one question for Carl.  Which of the  
> > three sets of paper
> > profiles would you recommend for use with Somerset Enhanced Velvet  
> > from St
> > Cuthberts Mill?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington"  
> > <roy@h...>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> There's a new version now available.  Both the Mac OS X version and  
> >> the
> >> Linux source code are included.
> >>
> >> See:  http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html
> >>
> >> The lastest download has a few enhancements.
> >>
> >> 1) The major addition is an automated Linearization capability.  This  
> >> requires a
> >> densitometer or the Eye-One spectro-photometer. With this feature once
> > partitioning
> >> of gray inks is done, by simply measuring densities and entering them  
> >> into the
> >> descriptor file a correction curve is generated to achieve the  
> >> ideally spaced
> > stepwedge
> >> i.e. one that is optimized for equal visual separation throught the  
> >> range.
> >>
> >> 2) The ink droplet size for 4 picoliter printers using 1440x720  
> >> resolution has been
> >> increased.  Several of the most popular printers fall into this  
> >> category --  the 1160,
> >> the 1270, and the 1280.  This means that the potential dMax for these  
> >> printers is
> > has
> >> been increased when printing at 1440x720.
> >>
> >> 3) Quite a bit of tuning has been done for the 2200 printer. Both the  
> >> internals have
> >> been tweaked for greater smoothness and Carl has created all new  
> >> curves for
> > several
> >> papers.
> >>
> >>  4) The Run-Install-Curves script is now automatically run whenever  
> >> you create a
> >> curve using Run-Quad-Profile.  Also a password is no longer needed  
> >> for this.
> >>
> >> -------
> >>
> >> Just in case there is a flurry of questions, unfortunately I will be  
> >> away
> >> for much of August, so I won't be able to answer emails for a while.
> >>
> >> Roy Harrington
> >> www.harrington.com
> >
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