Black And White Digital Printing Part 5

The Great Paper Chase
Part Five of a Series on Fine Art Black and White Digital Printing
Revised April 8, 2010

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by Clayton Jones

News
1) The latest addition to this listing is the new Hot Press Natural by Epson. With this paper we finally have a non-OBA paper with Dmax equal to the best OBA papers, and it gets my Highest Recommendation. See the details in the K3 section below.

2) I-Trak version 2, a print tracking program for fine art photographers, is available from this web site. If you sell prints, please have a look at the free Demo version. It could make a big difference in your business.

In 2005 Epson introduced a series of photo printers that used a new Ultrachrome ink, called K3 for it's use of black and two shades of gray. Since then these printers have become enormously popular and have completely rearranged the black and white printing market.

The K3 inks produce different Dmax results on matte papers compared to the popular MIS ink sets based on Eboni black. K3 is so widely used now I felt it was worth adding a new section just for K3 test results. I also separated out the discussion on OBAs and Alpha Cellulose paper into a third section of its own.

Eboni Test Results - matte papers

K3 Test Result - matte papers

Optical Brightening Agents (OBAs) and Alpha Cellulose papers.

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