Bought a "Canson Discovery Pack" of paper out of B&H Photo. It came with 14 different sheets (1 of each) of their "Canson Infinity" papers. The B&H website says 12 papers, but it came with 14.
Using an Epson 3880 printer with "dye" ink (Cone's, as I use it for metallic papers as the dye ink has more "pop" with metallics paper over pigment ink.). I personally don't really care about longevity over the "pop" factor between the dye and pigment since I print for competition or maybe hang for a few year before something goes in their place.
I also left the Epson set to print with the "Matte Black Ink" since most of the paper in the pack is of the matte type or canvas, with a few glossy ones which I also left the printer to Matte Black (Being too cheap to want to waste ink on switching to Photo Black, and not seeing that much of a difference between the "dye" ink's Matte Black (MK) and glossy Photo Black (PK) on the paper's surfaces either during the x-rite ColorMunki Photo calibration chart printing.)
Profiled each sheet with the ColorMunki Photo using the normal procedure, except I printed the two charts needed on one sheet of paper for each single paper type in the package. Epson allowed me to set a full-page chart to half-page in the driver's menu (Second tab, lower right.). So print a chart, dry, read it, flip it around and print the second chart, dry, and read that one. Fwiw, one can use a straight edge with the ColorMunki Photo every 7/8" below the chevron's point on the preceding printed line similar to the i1 PhotoPro 2's method. Then I let the software write the profile. Took most of a day to do the 14 sheets too.
On day two, I printed a 1" square of RGB=0,0,0, Black in the middle of each sheet between the calibration charts. I was looking to see what the maximum black ink density looked like on each type of paper using the new profiles. I read those using the i1 PhotoPro 2 head and the ColorPort software while looking to read the visual density for that new black square.
Results follow from lightest black to darkest black:
Canson Infinity Bartya Photographique 310 gsm = 1.772 visual black density.
* Paper above is very prone to showing scuff marks off the printer's roller, as well as the movement of the Munki over the surface.
Canson Infinity Photo Art HD Canvas 400 gsm = 1.801 visual black density.
Canson Infinity Montval Aquarelle 310 gsm = 1.836 visual black density.
Canson Infinity Arches Aquarelle 240 gsm = 1.863 visual black density.
Canson Infinity Arches Velin Museum Rag 250 gsm = 1.869 visual black density.
Canson Infinity Mi-teintes 170 gsm = 1.873 visual black density.
Canson Infinity Rag Photographique 210 gsm = 1.879 visual black density.
Canson Infinity BFK Rives 310 gsm = 1.890 visual black density.
Canson Infinity Rag Photographique 310 gsm = 1.907 visual black density.
Canson Infinity Edition Etching Rag 310 gsm = 1.916 visual black density.
Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag 310 gsm = 2.132 visual black density.
* Paper is very prone to showing scuff marks off the printer's roller as well as the movement of the Munki over the surface.
Canson Infinity PhotoSatin Premium RC 270 gsm = 2.188 visual black density.
* Paper is prone to showing scuff marks off the printer's roller, but less so with moving Munki over surface as above two.
Canson Infinity PhotoGloss Premium RC 270 gsm = 2.225 visual black density.
* Paper is prone to showing scuff marks off the printer's roller as well as Munki scuff over surface.
Canson Infinity Photo HighGloss Premium RC 315 gsm = 2.268 visual black density.
* Paper is very prone to showing scuff marks off the printer's roller as well as Munki scuff over surface. I also spotted some odd haze coming through from the back where the identifying label is attached which is puzzling, maybe the label's glue? This is a thick RC paper and why that haze is present is odd but maybe being squeezed via the printer's rollers?
The Epson 3880, or at least mine, has a tendency to scuff the paper during the eject cycle as these were half-page prints so the second half of the page (blank) got the "Eject" notice and rapid kick out of the paper. That might be the reason for the scuffs on the shinest/glossiest surfaces. Looks to be about a one-inch wide by half-inch scuff mark where the roller may spin a bit on the surface to kick it out of the machine. I'm not seeing any roller pizza wheel marks over the length as reported by some on any of them, just a short roller spin on the glossy surface that is much like a car tire spin. None of the textured watercolor or canvas papers showed with that issue.
I'd imagine the black numbers might track the same for the OEM pigment inks as well. These papers really can produce a dark black with the matte dye ink.
SG