Digital BW, The Print

I confess I have not really explored how much metmerism was involved
in the prints I've made here.
What I found was that the hue of the Epson K and light Ks on Silver
Rag is very unattractive. So much more use of the color inks is
necessary than one might think to make it work.
The use I liked best was to go with the direction indicated by the
base and move the whole tone towards warm, like Portriga or Forte.
Seemed to work well. Any workflow leaving a good amount of color inks
avalable to utilize would probably be most atractive. However here I'm
running the lightest K all the way up the scale, which the RGB driver
won't allow.
I'm talking UCK3s, not tried anything else on it.
The various RIP options will let you do this of course, and possibly
the ABW driver, I'm just not sure the ABW driver leaves enough color
ink available to tone attractively, but I've not tried it. Also, it
would be of use to change the tone throughout the scale, something
they should put in that driver.
I'm not sure if neutral is a good target use for this paper. I also
found it all had to be done by eye, to taste, a techie aproach didn't
take things very far.
So far, under a variety of B&W uses, the Epson K3 blacks have been
mostly a problem to solve, they are unattractive.
Tyler


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "edrudolpho"
<erudolph@...> wrote:
>
> Metamerism.  The print looked greenish-blue.  Previously, under
> tungsten, daylight, even fluorescent, I had seen this print as pretty
> neutral.  The gallery owner and her assistant looked at it.  The
> assistant told me not to worry; that this was a common problem for
> inkjet prints.  I was pretty embarrassed.
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Gledhill
> <stephengledhill@> wrote:
> >
> > In what way was it simply awful?
> > Steve Gledhill
> > http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/
> > 
> > edrudolpho wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> > > <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>, Steve
> Gledhill
> > > <stephengledhill@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Can only speak for myself - obviously.
> > > >
> > > > It's a superb paper and I use it extensively. Particularly for
large
> > > > prints on my 4800 - with K3 inks, and ABW and QTR-Create-ICC.
> > > > Why? Deep blacks. Warmish creamyish paper colour which I
> particularly
> > > > like for my work.
> > >
> > > This is exactly the workflow I was using (except on a 2400). Until
> > > one day I walked into a gallery with a SilverRag
ABW-K3-QTRIcc-printed
> > > print. The print looked simply awful under their lighting. I lost
> > > faith in the all-Epson ABW approach and ordered some MIS EZWarm to
> > > replace the yellow ink and rejiggered my ABW settings. I haven't
been
> > > back to the gallery yet.
> > >
> > > Ed
> > >
> > 
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