Digital BW, The Print

Paul

I can only say that what you see is what I get.  I  have not used UC PK that
much.  In fact it wasn¹t until the flurry of interest in sprayed RC paper
prints that I dragged my PK out of the draw again and gave it a go.  The
bronzing in normal QTR prints on RC even with spraying was too much for my
taste.  BO on RC with spray is better re bronzing but still has awful
reflectance differentials.  I am thinking about getting a (colour) 2200 CFS
from MIS with Eboni instead of universal black but have some hesitations
that I have outlined in other posts.  Plus all I seem to hear about Eboni is
clog after clog after clog ­ please tell me I am wrong on this!  In my
opinion, unless the reflectance differential can be ironed out (either with
Eboni or otherwise) then even BO on RC paper (then sprayed) is out as far as
I am concerned.  Consequently I have turned my attention back to QTR on matt
and trying to understand this better and get the best I can out of it......

Cheers

Steve


From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@...>
Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:01:40 -0800
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Epson 2200- need to print black and white..


That you should get purple is very strange. I get definite brown, and I've
heard numerous other people say the same thing. I printed a Photo Black step
wedge on Premium Luster, which I think is the same paper as Premium
Semigloss with a slightly larger texture, and measured it with the Eye-One.
The patch with the largest deviation from neutral was L=32.5, a=2.87,
b=7.22, which is definitely brownish--orange if it were lighter.

I doubt they sell different color inks in different countries, because
they'd need different profiles for them. However, it's possible that you got
a bad batch of ink. I had that happen once, although that was from Canon. If
you have another cart bought at a different time, I'd pop it in and see if
it produces same results. Or maybe PL really isn't as similar to PSG as it
looks to my eye.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...tcom.com






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