I ‘ve been using Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk paper with the custom ICC profile for the R1900 available from the Ilford website. I’ve been very happy with the results.
Hahnemuhle has a profile for their FineArt Baryta paper (http://www.hahnemuehle.com/site/us/1014/epson.html). I’ve bought some of that paper but haven’t had a chance to try it yet.
I sent an email to Harman asking about a profile for Gloss FB Al paper. They told me they plan to make one, and that my request will move it up the priority list. Maybe if more people request the profile they will get to it even sooner.
As to why Epson has so few profiles for their own papers -- I have no idea. You would think they would have made the profiles around the time the printer was introduced, which was quite a few months ago.
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I was responding mainly to a comment by Colinm that Exhibition Fiber paper didn't meet Epson Expectations on any Epson Inkset other than K3 and K3 plus vivid M inksets. I hadn't heard that before. Anyway, both the R1800 and R1900 quite possibly share common ink chemistry with the K3 and K3+ inkset, but they also have to have significant differences as well because both printers contain two alternative colorants (red and blue for R1800, and red plus orange for R1900) that displace light magenta and light cyan, and both have additional GLOP technology. I believe its fair to say that both machines, albeit pigmented systems, are reasonably different from K3 and K3 plus machines. I got very nice results on my R1800 with the Epson Exhibition Fiber paper. So, I'm just wondering, if Colinm's comment is true, what aspect of the paper and different inks didn't meet Epson's expectations?
IMHO, a more probable reason why profiles don't exist is that the Exhibition Fiber paper is a very expensive paper by anyone's standards. The prosumer market, folks who buy R1800s, R1900s,etc, are probably not perceived by Epson Marketing folks as the likely professional market for such and expensive paper, so Epson doesn't support that market as well. That may be a flawed decision on Epson's part, or I could just be wrong, but to me it's a likely rationale for why generic ICC profiles from Epson don't exist (yet).