Digital BW, The Print

None of these are new papers...they are just rebranded.  The Somerset, for
instance is just Somerset Enhanced...in my opinion a very poor paper.  The
rest are just the existing Epson papers...see www.atlex.com to buy some.
What's new are the pigments.  My guess is that the new pigments will work
fine with these papers.  The old epson pigments worked with them.  The issue
is metamerism.  I just saw several 9600 prints the other day on some
experimental gloss papers...they were really lovely...no smear...nice
gamut...they weren't on a lightbox...but they looked ok under the couple of
light sources that I tried.  The person showing them to me said that all of
the BW prints that he saw from the new printers were "very disappointing"
however.  Personally, I'm not holding out any hope for BW with the new
printers...I just bought a 7000 to use quad inks in.  Personally, I don't
find spraying to be a problem for the semi-gloss/luster/semi-matte papers.

Robert


On 5/25/02 7:30 PM, "Doug Fisher" <dougfisher@...> wrote:

>>> No...if you are talking about MIS FS or VM inks.  They might work with the
> color ink sets...but will still probably need to be sprayed.  I've evaluated
> all of these papers with the MIS inks.<<
> 
> Bummer.  Not what I was wanting to hear.  BTW, how were you lucky enough to
> be able to get samples of these if they aren't supposed to be released until
> June?  Are some of these already available in the stores?
> 
> Thanks for the response,
> Doug
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