Digital BW, The Print

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From: Antonis <antonisphoto@...>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 21:47:00 -0000
Subject: [Digital BW] dMax data uploaded: some surprises
To: digitalblackandwhitetheprint@yahoogroups.com

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1. The king of dMax turns out to be the Pictorico Watercolor, a thin,
highly textured paper that doesn't come in anything over 13x19.
I don't remember it being particularly popular, but it brought in
a whopping 2.12 (when Hahnemuhle tops out at 1.66 under the 
same conditions ! ).

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This is interesting and had my curiosity piqued.  However I was
crestfallen to read this on the Pictorico site regarding this paper: 
"Premium WaterColor Card Stock is not compatible with Epson
pigment-based inks."  Wonder what that means?

2. A 1280 printer loaded with MIS Ebony is way outperformed by a 7500
with the same ink. Which goes to show that little desktop printers
made for dyes may not give pigment black inks their best shot.
Not really a surprise, but now confirmed in real tests.

3. The 2200 with the Matte Black (marked as MK in the pdf) matched
or outperformed wide format printers loaded with either the same ink
or Piezo Museum Black. Often it was outperformed by Ebony in a
7500, however.

4. UC Photo Black (in the 2200) outperformed the MIS UT Photo Black
(in the 1160). The 1160 produced its darkest at step 23, well before
the end of the 26-step scale. I am inclined to think that it wouldn't get
any better with this ink on a big printer.

5. In the large format category, Ebony in a 7500 often beats Museum Black
in a 9500 - sometimes by a wide margin. Photo Rag gets to 1.74 with
Ebony when it only hits 1.66 with Museum Black. That same 7500/Ebony
seems to produce the overall better black with the matte papers - though
not always.

6. Epson papers in this test - not surprisingly perhaps - did better on the
2200 with Matte Black than on the 9500 with Museum Black.

That's it for now. No Gospel here, just some initial results that I found
eye-opening in many cases.

Antonis



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