Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

Interesting results with the PK on epson semigloss (sprayed?).  Does 
the actual print look purple, or just the scan?  The scans of the two 
prints I posted previously are here:

Eboni on semigloss, sprayed with PremierArt PrintShield
http://homepage.mac.com/scho/Eboni.jpg

Epson PK on semigloss, sprayed with PremierArt PrintShield
http://homepage.mac.com/scho/PK.jpg

Carl

On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 02:12  PM, Steve Kale wrote:

> I am going to retract my statement below about there being limited
> differences between the hues of BO MK and PK prints.  (It seems I must 
> have
> badly labelled some test prints I did!)  BUT I don’t get brown prints 
> with
> PK either!.  Take a look at the following page for the same image 
> printed
> with QTR 50:50 cool:warm, BO with Epson Ultrachrome MK and BO Epson
> Ultrachrome PK.  The scans were done at 360ppi (same as the original 
> psd
> image), Adobe RBG 1998, without colour correction with my (crappy) 
> Epson
> Perfection 2450 (no sharpening at print nor scan).  I think they are 
> good
> enough to show the differences in hue and even smoothness.  If you 
> click on
> a thumbnail it will bring up a slide show.  If you click on an image 
> in the
> slide show, it will bring the image in full size.
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/stevekale/PhotoAlbum11.html
>
> If anything I get a very slight purple tint with the PK – I assure you 
> it is
> BO.  Note that this is PK purchased in Europe.  I think Carl Schofield 
> once
> posted a link to a BO image with PK on EPSG (I could not find the link
> again) which had a definite brown hue.  Could it be that PK Europe is
> different from PK US?
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
> PS I have not measured the dMaxs of the prints but as a quick relative
> measure if I take each scan’s mode to Grayscale, the K% (from the info
> palette in PS) of each image’s top left corner are: original 100%, QTR 
> EEM
> 87/88%, BO MK EPSG 89/90%, and BO PK EPSG 92/93%.