Cone inks
Cone inks
- Subject: Cone inks
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 06:25:56 -0500
Hi, Emily.
I'm assuming you mean Jon Cone's inks from Inkjetmall. The paper you are using
is probably not the problem (with one caveat: see below). Paper is like
flour: whether the box has Cone's name on it or Epson's or anyone else's, it
all comes from only a handful of mills.
I have had an Ep 1280 for about a year, set up to use Cone's bulk inks, and was
not happy at all with the results. So this fall, while on sabbatical, I
participated in one of Jon's color management workshops in Vermont. I can now
assure you from personal experience that while "everything counts" in geting
the results you want, how they fit together is much more important than any one
single piece. (The caveat: Cone's inks don't work well on glossy paper: they
won't adhere and they look solarized. Use a good matte paper.)
The pieces you need include a (frequently) calibrated monitor, printer profiles
for the specific ink/paper combination you want to use (you can buy the
hard/software to create them yourself), all color editing done in "proof mode"
for that profile, and proper lighting color and levels for viewing both your
original material (e.g., a transparency) and the final print (if it looks good
under 5000K light, it'll look good almost anywhere).
I came back from the workshop having made one spectacular 20x24 print of an
image from Ground Zero that I'd been beating my head against for months ...
using the same ink and paper I had at home on the 1280.
Now I'm trying to tame a new Ep 7600, so I can make more of those big prints,
and while the inks are now Epson's, the paramaters of the process are still the
same.
Jim Schaefer
Georgetown University
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We've recently purchased Kone inks for our Epson 1270, and we'd like to do
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the same for the 2000P IF I can solve this problem: color is totally
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unreliable on Epson paper (and black and white is not even remotely
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acceptible -- it looks as if the whole image has gone through PShops'
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solarize filter). They suggest you select "Glossy Film" as the profile, and
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I've tried that -- along with every other combination of their profiles
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provided for THEIR paper, and tweaking colors so that they print fine on an
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HP 2500C. In any case, short of buying only Kone paper, I can't quite
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figure out what to do. Has anyone worked with this combination? (The
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inks...are archival, and 6 color)
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Thanks,
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Emily Marcus
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Ohio University
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IMTS/Instructional Media
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Alden Library
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597.2521
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