It was 28/11/02 7:44 am when Neil Barstow wrote: > AFAIK - at A3+ the current king of longevity [in the Epson stable] is indeed > the 2100. > > They have reduced the archival claims somewhat from those for the 2000P > [they had to invent new inks since - unfortunately - the Pigmented inks > in the 2000P were pretty much unsuitable for the purpose due to > iluminant metamerism]. The 2100 uses Ultrachrome inks, pretty nice but > I'm seeing a bit of a tendency toward bronzing on Epson's own Premium > SemiGloss. Neil
Are you going to put your views of the printer on your website? Would make interesting reading. I still haven't been able to find a definitive answer to whether it's better to go with an 1160/1290 profiled with Lyson inks because metamerism is reduced to an "acceptable" level or eliminated altogether under daylight, tungsten and fluorescent lighting or to go with the 2100 because it has separate carts and pigment inks for longevity and no metamerism. As far as I can make out, you have to optimize the prints either for daylight, tungsten or fluorescent to prevent the metamerism. As soon as you change the viewing conditions, tough...Will it be possible to profile the printer so that metamerism is eliminated when seeing a print under different lighting conditions or will we just have to accept the fact that you have to print 3 prints for viewing under different lighting conditions (ignoring mixed lighting for the moment)? --/ Shangara Singh http://www.e-pixel.co.uk Adobe Certified Expert ~ Photoshop 7.0 PortfoliosOnCD for Photographers http://www.portfoliosoncd.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
