Digital BW, The Print

howdy....for anyone following this thread, I have done a bunch more 
prints this week. Keep in mind that I am an amature mostly, but 
occasionally get little jobs working for my fellow musician friends 
putting promo packages together. That means a nice feeling glossy print 
that people will take out of an envelope and look pretty closely.

Paul roark tipped us onto this costco glossy paper made in switzerland, 
for use with the UT2/Eboni inks. Super cheap! 20 bucks for 125 
sheets.....it bronzes just a little, but the surface really works well 
with print sheild spray. You could get away with no spray, but the 
spray will probably make the prints fade less, and you maybe could 
spill coffee on them lets say, and wipe it off, and stick it back in 
the envelope....also, the image quality is great. Really really good. 
As good as photo rag. The only hang that I had was that the sliders ( i 
use the sliders method, and dial out the eboni ink. If you use photo 
black i guess you would not need that step.

Here are the slider settings that I have come up with to get a pretty 
neutral print. It is actually on the warm side of neutral, but all of 
the cooler settings had a magenta look in the shadows.

brightness =0
contrast=2
cyan =0
magenta =  negative 8
yellow = 0

that is quite a lot diferent than the settings for ilford smooth pearl, 
or epson cheap glossy, which are the glossy papers that most people use 
to try to get a decent glossy print with the UT2 inks.

just in case you want to try the paper, those settings will probably 
help you waste less paper and ink!

The paper exaggerates the magenta shadows, and also exaggerates the 
cyan slider. Kind of like how ilford smooth exaggerates the yellow 
slider.
For ilford and epson I have to bump the brightness way up to like +8

for what it's worth.......happy holidays, DOug M