vibrio
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using my epson R2400 I tried Olmec optimum gloss, ilford smooth pearl, epson premium gloss.
I printed colour, B&W and toned pictures. I printed the images in two formats
1/ normal way. profile applied to image was the monitor calibration, then print preview paper profile chosen, black point clicks, relative colourmetric too, photoshop handles colour.
the Olmec gave a slight green colour cast on the colour print compared to the Epson and Ilford but correctable.
ilford was slightly darker than the glossy paper but colours still good. epson was great as usual. I tend to use the smooth pearl for most of my own pics but other people want the glossy effect.
for the black and white image the olmec was streets ahead of the epson which has a cast which I put down to the paper being not as white as the olmec. the ilford was great again. Olmec is the prefered option here.
for toned images like sepia the epson was better than the Olmec which was too white however the ilford gave the best results in terms of tone.
2/ image taged with paper profile and colour space in print preview was RGB.
the colour images were basically the same as above with the epson and ilford better than the Olmec. the Olmec had a really bad green cast on teh toned image and I'd not recomend this method at all. it was however very very good at reproducing what you saw on the monitor.
B&W pics printed on Olmec using the image taged with the monitor profile and the paper profile in the print preview selection
toned pics printed on Ilford prefered but epson PG just as good for colour rendition. would use the same as above to print
colour either epson PG or Ilford mooth pearl depending on the effect using the image tagged with the paper profile and using RGB inthe colour space option in print preview.
I will add ilford smooth gloss and Olmec optimum satin when they arrive also got some cheap glossy paper too to compare. I suspect the ilford smooth glos will be the same as the EPG for colour and toned as it is not as white as the Olmec paper
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