Digital BW, The Print

Epson MK performs well on Epson paper like EEM/EAM.  The numbers you are
quoting for HPR etc sound about right.  He will get a small pick up by
switching to MIS Eboni ink in place of Epson MK.


> From: Steve Kale <stevekale@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:18:33 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] matte paper dmax with the 2400/4800
> 
> Doesn't sound too far off if he is using Epson MK ink
> 
> 
>> From: dfaprinting <dfaprinting@...>
>> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:46:51 -0000
>> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>> Subject: [Digital BW] matte paper dmax with the 2400/4800
>> 
>> I'm trying to help someone else out. They are getting what I consider
>> very low dmax with the 2400 and Epson matte black ink on just about
>> every matte paper tried. Values like 1.6 - 1.65 for papers like
>> Hahnemuhle Photo Rag and German Etching, trying both the "normal" RGB
>> color mode and ABW mode with several different paper types and driver
>> settings. He's measuring with a brand new i1 spectro (i1 photo), and
>> from everything I've read, all the settings are correct. I searched the
>> archives to see if I could find a typical set of values for any of the
>> more common matte papers, but either chose the wrong keywords or didn't
>> find any. So if anyone has either density or Lab values for papers like
>> the above two or EEM/EAM (any other Epson paper) we would be grateful.
>> 
>> One of the next tests is to have him send me a printed profile target
>> (probably on an Epson paper so he can call Epson with the results) that
>> he measured, and then I'll measure it and we'll compare the results,
>> though I don't really expect to see much difference between our
>> respective i1 spectro's. Thanks, Greg.