Digital BW, The Print

My own feeling is that matte suffers on all counts -
both with B&W and color, compared to Premium Luster. 
Discounting the metamerism, color with the 2000P was
even good and intense with Premium Luster, and is
totally natural and fine with the 4000.  Haven't seen
the 4800 yet, but I am able, with tweaking, to get jet
black blacks with the 4000 on Luster paper.  Matte
simply sucks in my opinion.

Peter  

--- Joe Davajon <davajon@...> wrote:

> Eximvaios (www.eximvaios.com) got in about 20 4800's
> so I drove over to Berkeley and 
> picked one up yesterday.  Some might be interested
> in my first impressions:  Color is 
> much better than the 4000.  Blacks are much denser
> and the rest of the spectrum seems 
> more intense.  Laying out two 16x24 prints made from
> the 4000 and the 4800 side by 
> side is startling!  You see the difference
> immediately and the difference is gratifying.  I've 
> only made a dozen or so color prints so far but as
> of now I'm very pleased.  I printed some 
> black and whites with Advanced B@W mode on Premium
> Luster and am very pleased with 
> the results.  Much much better than matte prints. 
> Blacks are very good.  Holding up a 
> 4800 print alongside silver prints on my wall
> reveals that the 4800's blacks are, at least to 
> my eye, so close that I don't feel thwarted as I did
> with the 4000.  The only thing I feel 
> some reservation about is that I don't know If I can
> learn to love the Lustre finish for B@W.  
> Time and working with a lot of different subjects
> will help decide for me. As for trying 
> Matte, I don't intend to do that for a while as I
> understand the Matte ink is the same as the 
> 4000 ink and I was never pleased with the dmax. 
> Ever.  Down the pike, I'm confident 
> someone will come up with a great matte black ink
> compatible with the 4800.  We'll see.
> Joe Davajon
> 
> 
> 



		
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