Digital BW, The Print

Barry  -
 
Are there objective tests to support you statement:  "with the 2200 you can get a denser black if you use a third party ink."  In practice, with high quality prints from two ink sets, Ultrachrome inks viewed side by side with '3rd party' inks, there is no visual difference in DMax. 
 
I have not compared 2200 prints in this manner, only 9600 Ultrachrome with the 3rd party inks on 'other' printers.
 
Tom Baker
 

flyfishingusa2002 <tflyfish@...> wrote:
Paul,
with the 2200 you can get a denser black if you use a third party 
ink. I love the results that I get with the standard inks, I wish I 
could show you a print. The gamut might be a little better with 
glossy paper, but not much. In fact I find that the bronzing tends 
to dissapear using Epson Premium gloss after the print has been 
hanging for a while.
The Epson work around for bronzing appears to be to coat the areas 
of the print that it's likely to happen on...why not coat the whole 
print? It's a option, cost of course, Epson inks and consumables are 
very expensive, even here in the USA. What we really need is a low 
cost alternative. CIS on the 2200 is one alternative.

Cheers,

Barry
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. 
DeRocco" <pderocco@i...> wrote:
> > From: flyfishingusa2002 [mailto:tflyfish@c...]
> >
> > The extra black on the new epsons is only so that ink is not 
wasted
> > on a cart change. something that I hardly ever do since I stick 
to
> > matt papers.
> 
> Isn't that only true of the 4000?
> 
> > Why glossy? good prints should go under glass where
> > glossy is not needed. Glossy is fine for small prints to give 
away,
> > but hardly necessary for display.
> 
> Glossy and semi-gloss papers give you denser blacks than matte 
papers. For
> color, they have a wider gamut.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@i...


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