Digital BW, The Print

Matt, the curves were written for Epson Archival Matte. All the rest of
your settings seem ok, except I use the heavyweight matte media setting.
 If you use the BACKLIGHT setting, you will get noticeably deeper
blacks, but you may get posterization.

I don't get any posterization using these settings (except the backlight
setting on very smooth gradient type images).

> Epson 1280 printer with MIS-VM ink set
> Epson Heavy Weight Matte paper 13x19
> photoshop 7 on a mac

Try the Archival Matte paper (it's whiter and thicker as a bonus). Now
relabeled by epson as Epson Enhanced Matte paper.

> 
> Images are worked in greyscale and converted to rgb before applying curve
> Curves:  vmm8-mw.acv

I never use the medium warm curve, I always use the nc neutral curve.
Try it and see if you still get posterization. I tried all curves, and
seems to me as the warm curves didn't deliver a deep black 

ALSO: Try Media Street's Enhanced Generations Black ink instead of the
VM black ink. It is noticeably deeper black than the VM. This should
really help you get better blacks. Inks are totally compatible.

You could also try to set your contrast in epson sliders to +10. This
will also give you a slightly deeper black.

I would think that you'd want hi speed turned off for maximum quality.

Jerry

> 
> Printer settings by dialog:
> Color Management Source space: document: adobe rbg
> print space: same as source
> 
> media type: photo quality inkjet paper
> Ink: Color
> Print Quality: Photo-1440dpi
> Color Management: color controls
> mode automatic
> gamma 1.8
> Brightness, etc all 0
> high speed is on for my tests but I have tried both on and off with no change
> 
> photoshop color settings:
> greyscale: 1.8 gamma
> color space: adobe rgb
> 
> Doug Fisher told me that I may be having a problem because the curves
> were meant for Epson Archival Matte. Does anyone have some curves for
> heavy weight matte that I could use as a jumping off point?
> 
> The exact same file, without the curves, printed with epson color
> inks, has a full rich black. It color shifts in other areas-- one of
> the reason I am trying to figure out the mis inks.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Matt
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