Digital BW, The Print

Serendipity tends to play a large part in discoveries of any sort...

I had a clogges 1270 with MIS VM inks..

once I cleared the minor clog, I ran a nozzle check on a piece of handy 
nearby paper - it didn't matter to me that it was glossy since I was 
just running a nozzle pattern..

When I looked at the pattern, the image appeared sharper than I had seen 
on any other glossy media with the MIS inks AND it appeared completely dry..

As it turns out, the paper was Canon's "cheapo" Glossy Photo Paper.

So, I went further and did a test print of an image I have been printing 
with those inks...

After overnight curing there is VERY little ruboff and only in the 
deepest blacks...  That makes me think with a bit more curing and some 
reduction of peak ink load this paper might be IT.

For these preliminary tests, I used one of Paul's curves with a  
Backlight Film setting inthe EPSON driver.

Given how cheap this paper is, people who want B&W glossy output from 
the MIS VM sets may want to give it a shot... (it also make me wonder if 
the new Oriental paper I saw running in a 2000P - which had a similar 
gloss - is simply the Canon paper rebadged)
Keith

 

"Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:

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"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"

 
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