I need some advice on a strategy for making the best of Red River Aurora Art Natural. It’s one of the very few brands that comes in a 17” x 25” size, which is ideal for my needs. As many know, the price is also right, and it’s known to be a nice paper (but with weak dMax with some inks).
I bought a supply of 17” x 25” for a printing project, knowing that it would not have the best dMax. I’ve had no trouble making good profiles on other paper using Eboni Variable Tone ink and my Epson 3880. I've been able to make pure carbon, and 'neutral' (toned) curves for Red River Aurorar Art Natural. The dMax is as bad as I was expecting (worse actually). What I didn’t expect was the flatness of the mid-tones. To say prints lack contrast is an understatement.
I could see this being a nice paper and ink combination if I’m looking for a really low contrast, almost sentimental look…. but otherwise it’s not particularly usable. It's certainly a poor combination for the images I wanted to print.
Has anyone had any success making a decent QTR curve for this ink and paper combination using some version of Eboni inks? Failing that, does anyone have a strategy I could try to salvage this paper?
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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Red River Aurora Art Natural salvage operation
2016-04-21 by Paul Roark
I generally don't use that paper due to the low dmax.
Just to check out some alternatives, however, you might see how the ICC in my Profiles Zip file does. (Link on page 8 of http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/3880-Eboni-Variable-Tone.pdf ) Also try the Epson driver with ABW mode and the yellow adjusted to increase or decrease the amount of toner in the print.
Paul
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:24 PM, rdeloe1@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote: