Digital BW, The Print

Greetings, I have recently installed UT2 inks on my Epson 1280 and I am 
using Epson Matte Heavyweigth Paper (8X10). I am following Mr. Roark's 
UltraTone 2 (UT2) Information and Settings using the epson sliders. My 
experiments can produce an acceptable warm print (at least to my 
untrained eyes.) However the cool prints are not acceptable. The cool 
prints are not printing well. Poor detail in the cool prints especially 
where I would expect shawdows to transition to black. Cool prints look 
too blue. My question is are there better papers for warm and cool 
prints. Any suggetion would be much appreciated.

Jim

"kb7smm" <kb7smm@...> wrote:

It's hard to say what the problem is.  Assuming the nozzle checks are 
perfect and the setting are correct (the usual problems), the 
symptoms could be due to paper profiles, inkset mix, or printer.

There may also be QTR profiles that you'd want to try.  It's been 
quite a while since I used that inkset or made any profiles.  To 
update the profiles, I recommend finding the curve that gives the 
best tones and then using Create ICC-RGB to re-linearize the profile 
for a new paper. See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-
Info/Embedding_Photoshop_Curves_in_ICCs.pdf 

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 



>
> Greetings, I have recently installed UT2 inks on my Epson 1280 and 
I am 
> using Epson Matte Heavyweigth Paper (8X10). I am following Mr. 
Roark's 
> UltraTone 2 (UT2) Information and Settings using the epson sliders. 
My 
> experiments can produce an acceptable warm print (at least to my 
> untrained eyes.) However the cool prints are not acceptable. The 
cool 
> prints are not printing well. Poor detail in the cool prints 
especially 
> where I would expect shawdows to transition to black. Cool prints 
look 

> too blue. My question is are there better papers for warm and cool 
> prints. Any suggetion would be much appreciated.
> 
> Jim
>