Digital BW, The Print

Ok, Here are some more interesting results.....

Premium semigloss is excellent in color and BW, and looks exactly like 
Premium Gloss. Same exact amount of slight dulling of the highlights. 
No Bronzing at all.

Kirkland, using the settings from the Ilford site for smooth gloss on 
the 2400, (media= EPSG, vivid) is not that good in color. There is 
gloss diferential pretty bad. It is not anywhere close to the Epson 
papers. The color ink on kirkland is dull.....I would not use it, it's 
just not good.

But....

Kirkland in Advanced BW mode is a bit better than the epson papers, 
because the highlights are not slightly more dull, like they are with 
the epson papers. Keep in mind that this is very slight, but noticable 
if you turn the print just right. With the Kirkland, the BW inks are 
less glossy, so the the whole print is less glossy, and there is less 
"gloss diferential". The BW inks seem to be glossier that the color 
inks with this paper, but the BW inks are not as glossy as there are on 
EPGP. It is just about perfect actually. The kirkland image quality is 
excellent as well just like it always was. I find it interesting that 
the kirkland Blows in color, compared to epson PGPP, but is better in 
Monochrome. Kirkland hits a home run again. (except in color..yuk)

Also, if you start with a mono image, the advanced BW mode "neutral" 
set to "normal" darkness is identical to just sending the mono image 
thru the driver as if it were a color image. The advanced BW mode is 
still good for mono images though because the toning works really well. 
Also, the way the Advanced BW mode converts the image to BW, is good. 
Better than a lot of conversion methods in photoshop that I have tried. 
(I settled on "power retouche studio BW as my conversion method)

now I am going to try epson premium semi-matte. There is no selection 
in driver for that media. I wonder why? There is a "semi-mate proofing" 
profile that was put in photoshop when I dowlnoaded the profiles form 
epson though. I'll try to figure it out.....DM