Re: Bad Roland Demo
Re: Bad Roland Demo
- Subject: Re: Bad Roland Demo
- From: Jan Steinman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:44:09 -0800
From: email@hidden (Lee Blevins)
the rolands ,
> like most plotters, are very dependent on getting the right media.
Media is a concern since I hope to do giclees with it.
Traditional giclee is done on a cotton watercolor paper. Roland
supports Legion Concorde Rag, in natural (cream) and bright white. It
is a cold-press, mould-made, 100% cotton rag paper, 256 gsm.
I use a lot of the bright white (CRBW). It is a delightful material,
especially in shadow detail -- it's a "light sponge" that provides
wonderful low-key detail. I'm a bit less than thrilled with it for
bright subjects with specular highlights, which need a glossy paper
to show off well. For those subjects, I use their high-gloss film
(PETG), which is not a traditional giclee material, but it sells! It
is currently under longevity test by Wilhelm, but I'm guessing it
will do similarly to CRNW, which is rated at 120+ years.
I print my business cards on CRBW with a full-bleed, 50% screened,
colorful abstract background. They ALWAYS elicit favorable comments!
If you're willing to experiment with profiles and dot gain, there is
no reason you shouldn't be able to print on any ink-jet-rated
material, such as the Arches or Hawk Mountain papers popular with
Epson users, but I haven't seen any reason to stray from the Roland
media -- except perhaps price, but I sell my prints for MANY times
the media cost, and so price makes little difference. (CRBW is about
$2/sqft.)
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