printing on fine art/watercolor paper

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Feb 24, 2006
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If anyone has experience printing both color and b/w on fine art /watercolor paper with the Epson R1800 printer please let me know. Personal emails are fine so to not burdern the group who may not have any interest in this whatsoever.
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Scott Glasgow
Feb 25, 2006
frank wrote:
If anyone has experience printing both color and b/w on fine art /watercolor paper with the Epson R1800 printer please let me know. Personal emails are fine so to not burdern the group who may not have any interest in this whatsoever.
thanks
Frank

Well, you see, that is the point of the group. Whether we have any particular current interest in the matter at hand, we are all here to either learn or, when we have something to offer, to contribute. Well, OK, most of us, anyway.

Many times I have added information to my "links," "tips and techniques," and "general saved" folders I have set up just for this group, even though the specific information in the post might not be immediately applicable to my current needs. For many here, this is a place to get answers to perplexing questions which we have been unable to resolve through other methods. For others, this is a place to attain the feeling of satisfaction of having applied one’s expertise to helping someone in need. Often, participants find opportunities to fulfill both roles, occasionally being the questioner and occasionally providing information from the fund which one has built up either by experience or by having read here and elsewhere.

This is all obviated by offlist email replies. If you want an answer to your question, then be prepared to come back here and find it. That way, we all benefit from the responses. There are some really, seriously knowledgeable people on this group. I would hate to think that there are valuable nuggets of information about Photoshop and associated techniques that are adrift afloat the mist because they were never submitted to the newsgroup, but only to one individual.

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Robert Feinman
Feb 25, 2006
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If anyone has experience printing both color and b/w on fine art /watercolor paper with the Epson R1800 printer please let me know. Personal emails are fine so to not burdern the group who may not have any interest in this whatsoever.
thanks
Frank
In general matt surface papers show weaker blacks and lower contrast than glossy papers. You can improve the contrast slightly by adding an adjustment layer that is used just when printing on this type of paper. Some people think the matt papers look "arty-er" than glossy. If you put the print under glass it is harder to see the differences. You might also want to repost the question in the
comp.periphs.printers group.


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Paul Furman
Feb 25, 2006
Robert Feinman wrote:

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If anyone has experience printing both color and b/w on fine art /watercolor paper with the Epson R1800 printer please let me know. Personal emails are fine so to not burdern the group who may not have any interest in this whatsoever.
thanks
Frank

In general matt surface papers show weaker blacks and lower contrast than glossy papers.

I’m just getting started on this bit I found the opposite to be true so far. Using Moab Entrada fine art Bright the R1800 makes extraordinarily black blacks. I was led to this paper as a somewhat more affordable version of a Hammemeule (sp?) paper because it is supposed to provide very rich colors. Moab also has a ‘Natural’ version which is yellowish, what I got was ‘Bright’. It’s also possible I don’t have all my profiles set up properly.

You can improve the contrast slightly by adding
an adjustment layer that is used just when printing on this type of paper. Some people think the matt papers look "arty-er" than glossy.

One thought is matte is suitable for very large prints like 24" wide. Glossy does get a little sharper but that doesn’t matter with huge prints. I think I prefer glossy on the R1800. Without glass, matte paper looks cheap at 8×10 IMO.

If you put the print under glass it is harder to see the differences.

I’m guessing matte may be suitable for putting directly behind glass without separation because there’s nothing to stick to the glass & get messed up?

You might also want to repost the question in the
comp.periphs.printers group.

Yep, I posted about this in that group a few days ago.
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Philip Procter
Mar 1, 2006
24 Feb 2006 12:34:28 -0800, "frank" wrote:
If anyone has experience printing both color and b/w on fine art /watercolor paper with the Epson R1800 printer please let me know. Personal emails are fine so to not burdern the group who may not have any interest in this whatsoever.
thanks
Frank

I tried watercolor paper with my Canon 9900 to simulate an old cloth print. It worked very well. Yes, the blacks were a bit weak and the whites not very white, but that’s just the effect i was after. The surface texture was spot on and the heavy ink absorbtion gave the whole thing a very 3d look.

PS: There was a heck of a difference between the cheap watercolor paper and my wife’s prime stash.

Philip

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