Digital BW, The Print

Hello Joost,

Yes, I have created color as well as QTR profiles for Inkaid'ed media and found the results to be quite predictable, and reproducible, providing you apply a thick enough coating, too much is better than too little. I have used exclusively the clear gloss material so I can't really speak for the matte version. 

The drawback to this approach is it requires a post coating of a solvent based lacquer. I found Lacquer-Mat works a little better than PrintShield in this area.

Since my preferred color printing engine is an HP Vivera dye machine, this alternative media is the only thing that can get me acceptable fineart prints. And as I had mentioned in an earlier post, my R1800 also prints exceptionally well on this media, not quite instant dry, but dry fast enough for my workflow. And the best thing is I'm no longer leashed to HP or Ilford swellable media.

These days I use lots of Arches watercolor and have the freedom to shop at many different papermills.

--nick

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "horstenj" <j.h.j.h@...> wrote:
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> For "normal" prints I am concerned (but have not tested this) that the reproducibility of the coating is not good enough to reproduce all the delicacies of the tonal range of an image, as you have no garantuee that the coating of the actual print is the same as the ones you did your calibration/curve creation/test prints. So for normal prints I use out-of-the box papers.
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> But do the other respondents experience with this? Has one of you done a reproducibility test?
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> Joost
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