Digital BW, The Print

Well Mark,

This is really friggin interesting look at the disparity of figures for Velvet Fine Art behind glass ( and others) with ABW between the 9880 and 9800, 9900 inksets. I never noticed that.

Actually though the 9800 figures still say Preliminary, while the newer inksets don't. So, he upped the stability for K3 BW on the last two inksets. They either changed their grays or he just wasn't finished with the tests on the 9800. Confusing. He should have updated it.


He is saying >406 WR years for the 7880/9880 http://www.wilhelm-research.com/epson/9880.html

and > 115 WR years for the same paper on the 7800/9800 - http://www.wilhelm-research.com/epson/9800.html

And >406 WR years on the 7900/9900 - http://www.wilhelm-research.com/epson/7900.html

 The new Epson inksets are quadrupling bw stability while the color figures are the same?

john




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <mark@...> wrote:
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john" <deanwork2003@> wrote:
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> > Anybody have any comments about why Velvet Fine Art is getting twice the longevity rating for K3 ABW on WR than all the other rag papers? It's weird, and it shows no improvement with adding a uv coating like the others.
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> I'm not seeing this.  What WIR documents are you looking at? I looked at the PDF report for the Epson 3800.
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