Digital BW, The Print

Robert,

Glad I'm not the only one confused! But when my Premier Art Smooth Fine Art 205 paper comes today (that's what the tracking # said) I'll make a side by side comparison with the Alise, using the same image. As for a profile, see Paul Roark's earlier message, second one from the top of this thread. But if you do tweak an existing profile to work well with Alise, I wonder if you'd be willing to share it. I don't know how to do that. Thanks!

My only beef has been loading it in my R1800. I finally found a trick: when I place the sheet in the manual single sheet feeder at the rear, I spread my one hand so thumb and pinkie are as far apart as possible. Then I reach down the sheet toward the rollers as far as I can and hold the paper flat against the holder. With the other hand I nudge the paper down. Seems to work fairly well. I also take some of the curl out of the paper, it's rather pronounced. I pay special attention to flatten even more the two corners at the top, ie the last part of the sheet to leave the printer. Otherwise these corners stick up a little and get "clipped" by the moving head and pick up some ink smudges.

Have also noticed that along the paper's two of the four edges there's a very narrow (1/32 - 1/16 inch) lip where the paper has been poorly packed or something = this lip may be what's causing the loading trouble. Wonder if Atlex would exchange it.

Regards,

Paul

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "robert49brake" <robert49brake@...> wrote:
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "paulmwhiting" <paulmwhiting@> wrote:
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> > Richard,
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> > First, I find the names of those papers rather confusing. I've been using PremierArt Smooth Fine Art 205 Paper - is that the same paper you're asking about? That's what I've been using up till now.
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> And just when you thought Epson had the corner on confusing names, Premier Imaging has replaced Matte b&w with Deluxe Presentation Matte.  Both are a brightened paper.  Smooth Fine Art is a non-brightened paper that used to be known as Premier Art Hot Press.  Or at least that's what's stuck in my head at the moment, could change at any time:)
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> Paul, if you are using the non-brightened Alise I would be interested in the perceived dmax between  the Alise and the Smooth Fine Art (Hot Press).  The Hot Press has been my favorite non-brightened paper for some time but it sound like it would be easy enough to switch with only a minor tweak or two to the profile.
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