For those of you who haven't heard, Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl is a new fiber-based inkjet paper that has a pearl/luster surface similar to "F" surface photo paper. It's one of the new generation acid-free, archival papers that aren't matte surface.
Anyway, I've just started working with it. In fact, I'm sitting cranking out a bunch of prints for a client on the stuff now, which is why I have time to make so many posts to the list this morning. I'm fairly impressed with the paper so far. I'm not impressed with the difficulty I had setting it up. The last time I set up for a new paper it was Ilford Smooth Gloss: I downloaded and installed the profile, set up soft proofing in Photoshop, set up my print driver for the appropriate paper type and profile and banged out prints instantly. I went through the exact same procedure with the new Hahnemuhle paper and got awful results. It's taken a lot of tweaking and experimenting to get good results. From this I can only conclude that Hahnemuhle's profile for the Epson 2200 isn't very good. Unless anyone has any other suggestions, that is... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
