Re: Best gamut ink for fine art giclee
Re: Best gamut ink for fine art giclee
- Subject: Re: Best gamut ink for fine art giclee
- From: Ray Maxwell <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:33:28 -0800
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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