Digital BW, The Print

I've put the workflow I'm currently using for BO prints on Epson 
Premium Semi-gloss, using the Epson 2200 printer and MIS Eboni K, and a 
couple of the BO softproof profiles in an archive (in the BO Printing 
folder) on my file sharing site:

http://homepage.mac.com/scho/FileSharing2.html

The workflow is primarily based on Clayton Jones's procedures for 
printing BO, Paul Roark's reports and procedures for coating semi-gloss 
with PremierArt Print Shield, and Keith Krebs's  suggestions for 
printing BO on Oriental FB paper.  The softproof profiles (for Epson 
Premium Semi-gloss and Epson Enhanced Matte) were created by scanning 
grayscale step wedges with an eye-one spectrophotometer, converting the 
density data to dot percent values using Martin Wesley's spreadsheet 
(in list files), and then creating the profiles with these data using 
the procedure described by Tyler Boley (also in list files).

I've been reading this thread with interest.   I just bought a 7600, and have 
been divided about using it with Epson Semimatte or the new Epson UltraSmooth 
paper.   (I have a roll of each on hand here.)   It's a big deal, because the 
7600 doesn't allow easy K ink cartridge swaps, and I've wanted to resolve the 
paper choice before loading an ink and firing up the 7600.

But this thread leaves me to think I can have my cake and eat it too, by 
using the Eboni K on both papers.   Carl (and Paul Roark and CJ), do you suppose 
that the Semigloss paper profile you've just posted, and the workflows that you 
and CJ have been developing for BO printing on Semigloss, would work equally 
well with Semimatte?   My recollection from Paul's earlier posts was that both 
papers took the inks in similar fashion, but that Semimatte had a smoother 
surface.

Thoughts?

Sanders McNew
www.mcnew.net


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