Having received my Epson SC_P7000 I am very busy finding optimum printer settings and doing profiling for all the different papers I do my Fine Art Printing on.
Note: It is clear that this new generation is much more linear when printing without any color management (using ACPU).
Specifically for the Ilford Galerie Prestige Gold Mono Silk I decided not to approach it via de colour route, but went for the ABW approach.
Very interesting, to say the least.
It is known that using ABW one can achieve even deeper blacks than via the colour approach, with this paper it is definitely so: with colour profiling it tops at Dmax ~2.5, with ABW I got Dmax ~2.8 !
And with an almost ruler straight L curve.
The paper is on the cool side, so the L*ab shows.
The prints are made via Lightroom 5.7.1, setting printer manages color and selected ABW in printer driver menu, ABW set to dark.
I also printed an b&w image of a customer and the details remain nicely visible into the deep black, overall the image gains in dimensionality. I wish I had larger sheets available, must be impressive on A2 size or bigger. ( I have only a couple of A4 to test)
Attached is the result of the 51 step grey wedge, a linear ramp in L dimension (51 patches step=2)made in Lab space , then converted to AdobeRGB.
