I've got the 7660. I'm fond of the Moab Entrada papers with it, but be
aware that you will get fading on any paper not designed for dye inks.
I've yet to get successful prints from the Epson Enhanced Matte or
Heavyweight Matte papers, the problem I'm having is the heads scrape the
papers at the bottom end.
My favourite setup for printing though is my Epson C86 printing Black
Only onto Moab Kayenta. Just wish it was 300gsm paper instead of 190.
Very cold whites, very rich and warm blacks. I use the Epson ink,
although I hear that MIS Eboni is excellent as well (MIS makes a lovely
Quadtone inkset for the C86).
Note that most of my printing is B&W, although I do some colour. I've
had problems with gloss differential with colour printing from the HP's,
buut I've mostly printed colour on Glossy Paper, the only time i use
colour inks with Matte is for toned B&W.
-Adam
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Those of you with the HP 7960 series printer ... Have any of you
experimented with other than HP papers?
I'm not particularly fond of glossy surface and have been looking for
a good matte paper. HP's "matte" surface is more of a semi-matte ...
kinda speckly. Epson Enhanced Matte and Heavyweight Matte have a nice
flat surface but the HP inks image somewhat warm/yellowish on this
paper. I tried some Kodak "medium weight" matte and it has a nice
bright, cold white surface and images very neutral, I think I want to
get some of the same paper in a heavier weight and see what that
looks like.
Any others that have been tried? Any of the better papers with this
kind of very smooth, very matte surface you like?
My old Epson 1270 is beginning to drive me a little batty: it
occasionally takes to drooling ink from the heads now and then takes
4-5 head cleaning passes and about ten sheets of paper passed through
it to get the crud off all the rollers and print cleanly again. I
guess it's time for an Epson 2200 (2400?) or 4000 series printer. If
I can't get the bugger rolling smoothly again, I'll go for it
(probably a 2200-2400) and would like to hear recommendations on
papers that you've used with it too.
At least I got 10 prints made today. It's not been fun.
Godfrey
