Digital BW, The Print

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> yep, i tried a couple of sample sheets - lovely paper (very 
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> feel), but Ultrachrome inks and MIS pigs just never dried
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There's incompatibility plus inferior color gamut.  It was like the 
emporer's new clothes:  I kept wanting my new UCs to look amazing, when 
in fact  3-year old Generations in an 1160 of the same vintage  looked 
better than UCs in a new 7600.  The only superiority of the 7600 with 
UCs was that it would print bigger, and is supported by RIPs, and yes, 
does have more subtle color transitions.  But not better gamut.  This 
became painfully obvious when I printed some images for a client of the 
famous chimney pots in Spain with their brightly colored tiles.  The 
reds just flat sucked out loud.  I spent many many unbillable hours 
attempting to adjust profiling to get them right, gave up, and wound up 
going to my old 1160 with Fotonics, to get a decent red.  Now I have 
Fotonics in my 7600, and:  red corvette, anyone?  That same 1160 with 
Fotonics gave me what I thought were great prints on Entrada.  With the 
new Darkroom gloss, it's like the veil comes off, and doesn't look like 
those horrible plastic glossy inkjet papers.

James



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