Digital BW, The Print

"andrevallejo" <vallejodasilva@...> wrote:


> I ordered an Epson 1400 and UT-14 from MIS. 
> The possibilitie of printing in matte,luster and  
> baryta without swapping carts seem great to me. 

> I just read Jacob's   
> post on http://photo3dart.com/wordpress/?p=334 and got a little  
> confused.

> So, visually, is Eboni 6 much smoother then UT-14? 
> My parameter is what I used to do, MIS FSN with an Epson 1160. 
> How would you compare them all?

Eboni-6 has very light inks and can print more smoothly than UT14, which stresses flexibility.  Whether you'd be aware of any difference without very close inspection -- or even then -- is questionable.  Ut14 is probably smoother than your old 1160 with FSN.

> Looking at the Profiles folder of QTR, I see three sets 
> for the 1400: CL(ok,it's for OEM Epson inks) 
> K6(Ebony 6 I suppose)

Maybe not.  I did not supply QTR profiles.  Those K6 profiles may be for Jon's set.

> and MIS. IS the last one for the UT-14

I'm not sure how many people on the QTR forum have contributed profiles.

I mostly made some basic Photoshop curves that people could use with Create ICC RGB.  My main concern was to get a good variable tone inkset out there, but since I don't really use it, I didn't leave it in the 1400 for long enough to make a lot of different profiles.  

One of the design criteria was to make UT14 run well enough with the Epson driver than profiling would be very easy.  For example, Premier Art Smooth BW, with no profile, but the Epson driver set to Color Controls, gamma 2.2, prints with essentially a straight line Lab L curve -- very close to QTR's.  Photo Rag prints with somewhat compressed shadows and more of a split tone.

The PS curves are probably close enough to linearize with most papers, and that is about the extent of what I did with the inkset.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com