Digital BW, The Print

I don't know anything about the paper Steve is curious about, but I  
am eager to know Steve's and others' impressions of Epson's new  
printers and their new "Claria" inks, partly because they sound good  
for business cards, envelopes, postcards and notecards, especially,  
at least for me, if they print black-only.

Thanks.
--
Sam


On Nov 8, 2006, at 10:36 PM, Steven Karafyllakis wrote:

> I found myself staring at the boxes of Costco paper a couple days
> ago...they still had a couple boxes of the old stuff which I use for
> color proofing, but being faced with profiling a new R260 I went with
> the new paper so I wouldn't have to do it again when i did switch, and
> have been pleasantly surprised. It was easier to get good color out  
> of,
> prints well with pigs, and has a nicer surface than the old paper.  
> With
> MIS inks it has a LOT of gloss differential, it needs coating. I'm
> getting a dmax of 2.28 uncoated, 2.38 with Premier, and 2.58 with MIS
> glop. Even though Premier doesn't give the most dmax boost, the  
> surface
> gloss and texture with it is quite pleasing, and very 'ADFB' in
> character. I'll start a south-window test tomorrow, but in the
> meantime, does anyone know anything more about this stuff?
>
> Steve Karafyllakis

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