Digital BW, The Print

anyone have any experiecne or comments on using epson velvet fine 
art paper with black only on an epson 2200 with either matt black or 
eboni?
Jerry
 happily printing on my new epson 2200, but still waiting for  my 
ebonis inks to arrive

Don't have the printer, but have seen beautiful neutral dense blacks from using Epson 
matte black on the velvet paper.  This was using RGB (all inks) though.

Will be trying it myself after Christmas  :~)

Incidentally, the result was no where near as good on some fine matte art papers.  
Don't know if it was the surface of the velvet being tuned for ultrachrome or what.  I 
was surprised.

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jerdiakiw" <jdiakiw@e...> 
wrote:

> anyone have any experiecne or comments on using epson velvet fine 
> art paper with black only on an epson 2200 with either matt black or 
> eboni?
> Jerry
>  happily printing on my new epson 2200, but still waiting for  my 
> ebonis inks to arrive

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jerdiakiw" 
<jdiakiw@e...> wrote:
> anyone have any experiecne or comments on using epson velvet fine 
> art paper with black only on an epson 2200 with either matt black 
or 
> eboni?
> Jerry
>  happily printing on my new epson 2200, but still waiting for  my 
> ebonis inks to arrive

The best results I've had on the Epson 2200 with Black Only ink was 
to use Arches Infinity Smooth in the lighter weight. Those make 
excellent B&W prints, if you use the Arches profile. They look just 
like B&W prints from the 1970s-1980s. Deep shadows, lots of gray 
tones, soft whites. The texture of the paper is just right, too.

The Epson Velvet Fine Art paper is much heavier. It's even heavier 
than the Arches Infinity Smooth in the heavier weight. The prints 
are OK, but not nearly as nice as Arches Infinity.

Cheers,

Mitch

mitch,  I'll try that . I am new at this but when you say use the 
arches profile, just how and where do I do that?
Right now I am seeing all the epson papers appear on the various 
windows so it is straight forward if I switch to hannemuhle rag or 
arches infinity smooth  where do I plug in the profiles?


jerry

 IDigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Glenn Mitchell" 
<gmitchel850@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jerdiakiw" 
> <jdiakiw@e...> wrote:
> > anyone have any experiecne or comments on using epson velvet 
fine 
> > art paper with black only on an epson 2200 with either matt 
black 
> or 
> > eboni?
> > Jerry
> >  happily printing on my new epson 2200, but still waiting for  
my 
> > ebonis inks to arrive
> 
> The best results I've had on the Epson 2200 with Black Only ink 
was 
> to use Arches Infinity Smooth in the lighter weight. Those make 
> excellent B&W prints, if you use the Arches profile. They look 
just 

> like B&W prints from the 1970s-1980s. Deep shadows, lots of gray 
> tones, soft whites. The texture of the paper is just right, too.
> 
> The Epson Velvet Fine Art paper is much heavier. It's even heavier 
> than the Arches Infinity Smooth in the heavier weight. The prints 
> are OK, but not nearly as nice as Arches Infinity.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mitch