Digital BW, The Print

On my 7600 up till now, I've been printing in color with Photo Black 
ink on Epson Premium Semio-Matte, and now will soon switch to Matte 
Black ink and matte paper, which I'll use for both color and B&W with 
ImagePrint. The question is which matte paper to use?

When I was printing B&W on the 1160+Piezography, I used EEM and Photo 
Rag, but EEM tends to turn yellowish, and my understanding is that 
Photo Rag is not that great with Ultrachrome inks. Also, I've heard 
(from Bruce Fraser) that Epson Velvet Fine Art will give a slighly 
larger color gamut. Any suggestions?

--Mitch/Bangkok

Hello Mitch

I am also in the process of making the photo-black to matte-black 
transition, and just like you, I have cross-posted a related inquiry 
("Ultrachrome - Photo versus Matte Black Differences"), here and on 
the Epson-Wide-Format forum.

To maximize learnings, let's watch each other posts while comparing 
notes along the way.

Miguel Angel Aleman


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mitch Alland 
<malland@x> wrote:
> On my 7600 up till now, I've been printing in color with Photo 
Black 
> ink on Epson Premium Semio-Matte, and now will soon switch to Matte 
> Black ink and matte paper, which I'll use for both color and B&W 
with 
> ImagePrint. The question is which matte paper to use?
> 
> When I was printing B&W on the 1160+Piezography, I used EEM and 
Photo 

> Rag, but EEM tends to turn yellowish, and my understanding is that 
> Photo Rag is not that great with Ultrachrome inks. Also, I've heard 
> (from Bruce Fraser) that Epson Velvet Fine Art will give a slighly 
> larger color gamut. Any suggestions?
> 
> --Mitch/Bangkok