Digital BW, The Print

on 10/31/01 2:59 AM, Julian Thomas wrote:

> Paul,
> What I like about the piezo driver is the profiles - absolutely vital IMO.
> I'm not an EAM fan as I prefer 308 gram Photorag or William Turner - hence a
> 3000 is no good to me either unfortunately! If there was a PR profile for
> variable tone inks I'd be tempted.

Julian

I haven't been following this thread too closely so forgive me if this
misses your point, but using MIS VM and Paul's curve, I find what looks good
on EAM looks better on the Hahnemuhle papers. I have not tested with step
wedges, or Tyler's Zee's, just images, but to my eyes no adjustments are
necessary from one to the other, you'll jest have deeper blacks and a
greater sense of dimension with the H. papers. It makes for a good workflow
where you proof with Epson papers (I like HeavyWeight Matte as a slightly
cheaper alternative to EAM, but EAM is good too) and final print on H.
papers without changes to curves, profiles, dot gain, whatsoever. But that's
just my perception, I'd be interested to hear if others feel otherwise...

Todd

PS, that's not at all to say you wouldn't miss the profiles for other
papers, just that the H's all print very closely to each other, and closely
to EAM and MPW.