That's awesome Wayne. Thank You.
If you're familiar with the stylus pro 4800 settings, and you want to manage color in lightroom using this cool new EFP profile, what option would you choose in media type in the printer. My guess would be Ultra Premium photo paper luster? Any advice there?
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There are two aspects to the media type that are important. It sets the "ink load", so it's critical to use the same media type that was used when the profile was made for that aspect. All good profile providers will tell you what media type to use because they know it must be the same as when the profile was printed. On the linked page you will find the instructions, I've copied and pasted them below ...
"The Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper is intended to be used with the "Photo Black" ink of the Epson UltraChrome K3 Ink™ or UltraChrome K3 Ink™ with Vivid Magenta ink sets. Under the Media Type, you should choose "Premium Luster Photo Paper" or "Premium Luster Photo Paper (260)" depending on your printer. For 3800/4800/4880 printers, you can load paper in the top feed (regular feed path) but with single sheets only. Loading more than one sheet at a time will result in mis-feeds. For Epson Stylus® Photo R2400 Printers you must load single sheets of Exhibition Fiber Paper through the rear Single Sheet Guide. For additional information on using the rear Single Sheet Guide path see your user guide or visit the R2400 product page.
The Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper is a premium photographic printing paper that requires some extra care when handling. Do not drag corners of the paper over underlying paper. Not unlike traditional silver-gelatin papers the surface can be scratched and is prone to finger prints–the use of cotton gloves or handling by the edges only is suggested."
So Premium Luster is the correct media type. this means that was setting that was used when the targets were printed.
The other aspect of the media type has to do with paper thickness and other similar settings. Exhibition Fiber is a fragile surface, and it's thicker than Luster. I think it's 13 mil so I would try a setting of 4mm instead of the default 3 that's in the luster media type, and you may want to use a wider platen gap. The platen gap will be more critical if printing on rolls, on sheets, an auto gap setting will probably be OK. If you are seeing some issues with head strikes or just some small scratching, you could try going to 5mm and/or widening the gap.