Digital BW, The Print

I had the same results with Cone Piezzo K6, major bronzing and gloss
diff, that was MK. But the fact remains that this SR was designed for
the Epson K3 inks with Photo K from what I can gather. At least I hope
that is the case. I'll know by Monday if that makes the difference. 

john




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Shilesh Jani"
<shileshjani@b...> wrote:
>
> I got my samples of Silver Rag - Thank you Jim Doyle. As a first go 
> around, I printed it on an Epson 4000 using EPL as the media setting, 
> and NCA with the canned EPL profile. I was not interested in color 
> accuracy of the profile per-se, or any such thing. I was mostly 
> interested in bronzing with the UC inks.
> 
> Results: Well it bronzes - a lot as a matter-of-fact. It bronzes 
> about the same as or MORE than Premium Gloss, or Premium Semi Gloss 
> on this printer. Well yes, it is nice to hold (cotton rag and-all), 
> but as Steve Kale has alluded, who cares about the touch of the paper 
> when it does not look so good. This paper does not LOOK good even 
> when held in my hands. I would rather compromise in color gamut and 
> contrast by using a more traditional rag paper like HPR or Museo II, 
> Max, etc. My reason: these papers can acctually do things that an RC 
> paper cannot do, i.e, present NO reflection, no matter how you view 
> it. I imagine papers such as EPL, EPSG, EPG, and many other RC papers 
> are perfectly acceptable with UC inks for many people. For them, 
> there is no need to change because Silver Rag adds nothing to image 
> quality. I will hazard that changing to Kodak Rapid-Dry Luster is a 
> much better (perhaps less expensive) solution to bronzing on RC 
> papers.
> 
> The search goes on. If only dye (or dye-like) inks were available 
> with truly neutral-warm K, LK and LLK inks. Some day, in a not too 
> distant future, we will look upon these efforts thinking "I cant't 
> belive we lived with these limitations" - I hope.
> 
> Shilesh
>