hello all.....well I am still looking for a glossy paper success story......I have now lowered my standards again! I dont care if a print only lasts one month. I am looking for a way to get a BW print on glossy paper, with a standard photographic look. Bronzing is not tolerable. People look at a print that has bronzing and they wait about one second and say...."did you do this on your printer or something?..... What i need is to be able able to put a print in someone's hand and have them think that it was "developed", and therefore a "real photo"......(that is booking agent thinking by the way)......not to be confused with a nice art print that will be under glass, which the UT2 inks and art papers do so well. I have both a epson 1280, and an epson 1200. The 1280 ihas the UT2 inks. If you have been reading my posts, you'll remember that I am marginally satisfied with spraying etc....but the pigments really dont cut it for gloss when it comes right down to it. Most everybody agrees I think. SO ...I also have the 1200 with lyson quad black dye inks. These are a pain with all gloss papers too it seems. Lyson claims that they work with gloss, but no matter waht, the dark areas ALWAYS turn blue when they dry. That is on all gloss papers ecept epson cheap photopaper, which shows bronzing real bad with the lysons. None of the other papers show bronzing, just the blue color at 85% dark. I have tried profiles, curves, CMYK curves, yadda yadda yadda......Black only is out of the question on the 1200, because the dot pattern is really horrible......so I gave up on these inks once before, and got the 1280, but still have this albatross of gloss incompetence around my neck. ...does the R800 do gloss BW? It seems that the 800 should be good for BO...BUT.....does it print on gloss paper? Really really really? I made a print on an HP that is supposed to do great BW, but it looked wierd to me. Not bad but weird. Geez.....
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glossy paper goose chase....maybe R800?
2004-10-27 by Douglas Meeuwsen
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