Digital BW, The Print

Bjorn, 


>I plan to dedicate my 7000 to BW-printing, so this is very interesting.
>I am a Mac user, and since Epson has no OS X driver for the 7000 
>I have to use the Mac OS9 (or maybe a Gimp print driver?)
> Can I get a RGB-curve for Eps SemiMatte from you, when I get so far?

Yes, if MIS will mix the missing ink, I'll load the 7000 driver and make the
basic curves for the inkset.

Let MIS know of your interest.  If they will, then even if they don't want
to market the inkset (yet), they might mix the one unique ink, and all the
others are off-the-self inks.

Paul
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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> 
wrote:
> Bjorn,
> 
> >...I have the Epson 7000 printer. Which inkset produces the best BW 
> >print with this printer and what is the difference from the Epson 7500 ?
> 
> I'm not sure I can say absolutely the best is produced by ______.  However
> what I've done with my 7500 is, first, for matte printing use the MIS UT1
> inkset.  This has a variable tone range from carbon warm to very cool.  It
> served me very well when I was doing only matte papers on the 7500.
> 
> However, I have found the UT1 did not do very well with glossy paper on
the
> 7500 (and some others).  So, while the UT2 and UT7 were the solution for
> desktop units I used, the 7500 didn't do well with them either due to the
> large dots.  It still needs a very light ink in it.
> 
> So, I now have a variant of the UT-FSN inkset in the 7500.  It uses one
> custom ink to replace the medium gray FSN, which was too light.  MIS has
the
> formula for this and, I assume, will mix it if there is any demand.  At
any
> rate, I have this customized FSN in the cyan spots and Y position.  In the
M
> spot I put MIS PK.  In the LM I have UT2-LM (the light warm carbon ink
from
> the UT2 inkset).
> 
> This combination gets me very good matte and glossy prints from neutral
tone
> through medium warm.  Since I'm really interested in mostly neutral tones,
> the (UT2) LM is used primarily to control what I consider excessive
coolness
> in the shadows of some cotton papers.  So, I think it's a significant
> improvement over straight FSN for some papers.  The ability to better
> profile papers for neutral printing was really the main reason for my
> original variable tone approach, and it continues to be such for me.  
> 
> The PK in M, in combination with the FSN-C gives me excellent dmax on
glossy
> papers.  Interestingly, the PK with the dark cool ink produces a better
dmax
> than the straight PK (including the UC PK which I also tried in the
inkset).
> 
> So, my latest prints are coming off a roll of Epson Premium Semimatte that
> is now loaded in the 7500.  I must say I love the dynamic range of these
> prints, which I've been spraying with Print Shield, dry mounting, and
> framing without glass of matte board.  (Very un-fine art, but very nice to
> look at from my perspective.) 
> 
> The relatively old 7500 cannot match the smoothness of the newer printers
on
> many papers when examined with a magnifying glass.  However, for even
> letter-size prints on glossy paper, it's essentially dotless at any normal
> viewing distance. 
> 
> The 7000 and 7500 are essentially the same machines.  The drivers are
> different, but people on Windows can run either machine with either
driver.
> The 7500 appears to have different firmware, but that may mostly provide
for
> more cleaning cycles, which you can do manually. 
> 
> As usual, I control the inkset with RGB curves, which I have for a number
of
> papers.
> 
> If you're interested in this approach, let me know and I'll try to be sure
> MIS is up to speed on the custom medium density FSN that is needed.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com 
> _______________________________
> 








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