Digital BW, The Print

Why believe all that you read? Especially from Epson, have you forgotten the "prints 
turning orange"? 
Why use a old paper? If  you read here most of the pro's use EEM for proofing and 
Hahnemuhle for prints that are sold or displayed. It never ceases to amaze me the 
lengths that people go to to try to save a penny when they have spent thousands on 
equipement.  In saying that, it looks as if using EEM and the UC inks will work out just 
fine if you want to take the risk.
I believed that Injetmall inks and plugin was the way to go...Wrong....I find out that 
the inks were crap and now they have dropped the plugin after telling me that you 
could see the dots with the Epson driver but you couldn't with their plugin. So why 
are they now going to use it?

As I said, don't believe all that you read.


Barry

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "harrisimages" <harris@s...> 
wrote:
> Over at www.epson.com you can read:
> 
> "Artists and photographers require a variety of media surfaces for 
> their professional work. Epson is proud to introduce its first 
> cotton paper for the desktop market, Velvet Fine Art Paper. With a 
> base that is 100% cotton rag, buffered and acid free, this paper is 
> coated with our popular Enhanced Matte coating, giving exceptional 
> color gamut and high D-Max."
> 
> Over at www.inkjetart.com you can read:
> 
> "EPSON Velvet Fine Art Paper - This paper uses the original Somerset 
> Velvet paper base (from St. Cuthberts Mill), but the coating is 
> totally different, and this is done by Epson."
> 
> I have no way of independently verifying this information....but, 
> the paper looks and feels like Somerset Photo Enhanced paper and 
> prints like Epson Enhanced Matte. 
> 
> Ron 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, sdmey4@a... 
> wrote:
> > In a message dated 8/31/2003 8:49:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> tom@f... 
> > writes:
> > 
> > > If you like the way your images look on EAM/EEM, you might use 
> Epson 
> > > >Velvet Fine Art paper for your print sales....it has the same 
> > > >coating, but the brightners appear to be stable and the paper 
> is 
> > > >acid free.  This paper is the same paper as Somerset Photo 
> Enhanced, 
> > > >but it has the Epson coating.
> > > 
> > I doubt very much much Epson is Buying Sumerset Enhanced and using 
> an"Epson 
> > coating" This rebranding of papers with a new name and the 
> resellers claiming 
> > they use there own special coating turned out to be all BS. 
> > There where several renamed versions of the entire Hahnemuhle line 
> of papers, 
> > and they where and are all the same regardless who's name was on 
> the package.
> > Even Ilford's lastest Fine art paper is Hahnemuhles William Turner!
> > 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]