Digital BW, The Print

Doug,

Nice to hear from a fellow glossy printer! I'm very satisfied with 
the prints I'm getting using the following setup:

- Ultra-tone inks with photo black
- Epson 1280: printing at 2880, no color adjustment, premium glossy 
paper setting, Epson driver
- Roark UT curves (really like the cool curve: ut80-c+3)
- Pictorico photo gallery glossy paper. No other paper I've tried has 
been bronze-free.
- I've also removed the rollers that used to cause "pizza
wheel" 
marks on my prints (a real issue on glossy papers).

There's still room for improvement, so I'm working on a transfer 
curve to improve the separation in the 90% - 100% range.

I'm hoping some other glossy printers will come forward with their 
workflows because I'd be interested in learning from them – and
to 
see if there's any interest in a glossy-only print exchange
sometime.

Cheers,

Mark


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Doug I." 
<puzzolente@e...> wrote:
> I get the feeling that many on this list are using matte papers. I 
think
> these are beautiful in their own way, but still prefer the look & 
feel of a
> traditional glossy print for most of my work.
> 
> I've seen various papers discussed for glossy, but not a comparison 
of the
> underlying ink/driver (and/or RIP) system. Are the various inksets 
pretty
> much equal in this regard? Or is there a particular setup that 
produces
> excellent glossy prints with minimal to no bronzing?
> 
> TIA,
> Doug