Digital BW, The Print

Dear BW’s,

 

Sorry for the late reaction, but at the moment I have both an Epson R800 and
a HP 8450 at home. I tested both with a black and white picture (in grey
scale printer driver setting, not in BO, I don’t expect anything from that)
and glossy photopaper (Epson and HP). To my surprise the results look almost
identical in tone (colour), sharpness and contras (slightly higher in HP). 

 

The only difference is, that the R800 print has a very nice gloss over it,
so it really looks like a print made on an Ilford silverhalide paper. Both
prints look quite neutral in daylight and slightly brownish (but nice) in
tungsten light. Under glass the differences will probably be even smaller.

 

With Kodak Ultima paper there are clearly differences in colour: Epson turns
greenish and HP brownish, in either case it does not look and smell very
well!  Self made quad tones don’t reproduce predictable on either printer or
paper, although I do have a well calibrated CRT-monitor. I guess you need a
very precise printer profile to make that work out better.

 

 

Best greetings,

 

Dré

 


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