On 08/03/2013 10:47 PM, Spinnaker Photo Imaging Center wrote:
Mark Bergsma of Bellingham, WA, still uses his Epson Pro 10000.
I forwarded you comment to Mark. The issue with 10000 if I remember, is couldn't get reds.
There is the Epson 10000CF with Epson's first pigment ink called Archival if I recall it correctly. That one could not make a good Dmax on matte papers and had a lousy gamut. Epson deliberately printed a poster for the Photokina 2002? in 1950's style to mask that low gamut. I had a 10000CF and loaded it with a third party pigment to get better results. The other one, the Epson 10000 with the dye inks could make a nice gamut and Dmax on any paper. But dye inks do not have longevity and are not stable (for proofing). On the HP Z3100-3200: HP has documents on the inks used with different media presets + the ink limits per media preset for the normal OEM driver. There are also documents which media presets to use for third party media. You can create a custom media preset based on an OEM one and make slight changes on the ink load + drying time etc. and then calibrate the third party paper + make the profile. Non-inkjet papers can be used as well, the Arches falls in that category I guess. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wide_Inkjet_Printers/ has a map in the Files with several docs on the subject. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst Dinkla http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm December 2012: 500+ inkjet media paper white spectral plots.