Does anyone know, is there any other difference between Ilford Galerie and Ilford Galerie Prestige than possibly thickness of some of the papers? Can I use the Galerie Prestige ICC's for Epson R3000 with the old Galerie?
I have been using Galerie Prestige Smooth Pearl for color and Epson Traditional Photo Paper (below ETPP, I guess this is Exhibition Fiber in American) for b&w. Now I found from a photo printing shop having their rest Ilford papers for sale. I bought Galerie Smooth Pearl (SP) and Gold Fibre Silk (GFS) and did not remember that there is any Galerie Prestige series.
I tried to print on Galerie GFS both using the Prestige GFS profile downloaded from Richard Smith’s web site and the icc of Canson Infinity Baryta paper that was recommended somewhere. The results were very similar, but there was a surprisingly big difference to the same photo printed on ETPP. GFS image seemed to have a green tone and ETPP a magenta one. I had not noticed the magenta before now when I compared it to the new print and it is very hard to say, which one is closer to the perfect grayscale, so this is not really a big problem. It was just surprising and thus a bit irritating to see an effect since I expected Epson R3000 capable to print perfect grayscale. Does anyone have an idea, what might be the reason?
I have a wide gamut monitor software calibrated with a Spyder. I print from Lightroom 4, and let it manage the colors. In Mac, Lightroom automatically disables color controls of the printer driver. Usually I print both toned and neutral b&w on the same sheet - and sometimes color, too. Thus the advanced b&w mode of the printer is out of the question. I use the Nik Collection Lightroom plugins very much, especially Silver Efex Pro 2. I want the use the same process for b&w and color, hence I use the ProPhoto RGB. However, Nik updates automatically without a notice, and an update always changes the external editing settings to sRGB - a very annoying feature! When I tried to solve the color cast problem, I noticed that the external editing settings were again changed to sRGB, but to my understanding, this should not cause any color cast.
I tried to see color casts in my older prints, but they seem to be perfect. The only changes I know are that I recently changed to wide gamut, and that Nik recently changed the settings to sRGB.
I read again the ETPP instructions. I should have disabled the high speed option of R3000, which I did not remember. The recommended media type of the profile was Premium Glossy which was correct. The GFS profile suggested Premium Semigloss and again I followed the instructions.
