Digital BW, The Print

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 17:01, Tom Salyer wrote:

> After over three years printing Piezography on an Epson 1160, I just 
> started working with Image Print and an Epson 2200 with my G4 Mac and 
> OS 10.2.
> 
> As I have always printed Jon Cone's " Proof of Peizography "  grey 
> scale file to see how a paper and ink combination works, I printed the 
> file with the 2200 and IP for comparison on Archival Matte.
> 
> With the naked eye I see dots in the highlights along the 1 percent to 
> 5 percent bar, and even into the 10 or 15  percent bar on top. They are 
> subtle, I have to stick my nose into the print to see them, but there 
> are there. When I compare the same file printed on AM and Piezo, the 
> bars a completely dot less and smooth as a baby's bottom.
> 
> Are the highlight dots of ink normal on Image Print ? Am I doing 
> something wrong ? Am I fair comparing it to Piezo ?
> 
> Reprinting my old Peizo files with Image Print, I feel my results are 
> just as good, except the faint dots in the highlights.
> 
> BTW, the same test file gives me good separation from 90 to 96 percent 
> black, and I can just make out the 98 percent ring from the 100.
> 
> Working with Photo Matte Black ink, Color Mgmt > bitmap > Grey Gamma 
> 1.8 and profile ep2200mk_b_grey-archmatt2880 .
> 
> Thanks for the help !
> 
> 
> Tom Salyer


This is why Cone produced his inksets in the first place, AFAIK. He
wanted detail in the shadows that he couldn't get otherwise, and dotless
highlights that he couldn't get without light gray ink. 

If you can live without these things, then Imageprint and the UC inks
should work for you.


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