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Re: Best gamut ink for fine art giclee

Hi Lee,

I all depends...

What is the original art you are trying to reproduce? Are you reproducing oils, tempera, watercolors, pastels, charcoal...???

To answer this in an objective way you would have to measure the CIELab values of the originals that you want to reproduce with a spectrophotometer. Then you can put those values into a program like Steve Upton's "ColorThink" as a color list and open the profile for your RIP or driver, printer, ink, resolution, and paper combination you want to try. This will then show you a three dimensional plot of each of the colors and show you if it is inside or outside the gamut of your system.

If you are trying to reproduce certain colors like Cobalt Blue oil paint or metallic gold or silver inks you are out of luck with all inkjet systems.

You need to narrow your focus and specify many more details for people on this list to give you any meaningful help.

The gamut of the UV HP is different than the Epson. People saying the the volume of one gamut is larger than the other may be true, but statements like that are "painting with a broad brush" and don't really tell you if that printer and paper are right for reproducing the particular colors in your originals.

Hope this aims you in the right direction and helps,

Ray


Lee Blevins wrote:

What is the best ink  for giclee?

I'm interested in an Epson but how is thier pigmented ink?

The HP UV is not a very good gamut.

Is the epson better?





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