Re: HP B9180 for digital negatives
Wow! Maybe this does end Epson's hegemony of the printer market. Nahhh! What Epson printer does one compare this to? The 1400, 1800 or 2400? Does anyone on the list have the little sister/brother to this printer the Deskjet 9800, also a 13" printer (<$300)?. I think the 9180 has the archival ink set and the 9800 uses dye-based inks. Sandy, if you would be so kind as to send me a scan of the arrays when you've got a moment. Thanks. ~m p.s. for anyone interested in my RNP-Arrays they're posted at hybridphoto.com under the Digital Negatives forum. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy King" <sanking@clemson.edu> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:27 AM Subject: HP B9180 for digital negatives > In conjunction with another person I just ran some tests for UV > blocking density with the HP B9180 printer, which is a 13" wide > pigment printer of similar characteristics and performance to the > Epsons 1800/2400. > > The results are very encouraging. The UV blocking of Green by itself > in the PDN tonal palette is log 4.75, Red is log 2.58 and Blue is log > 1.31. The practical consequence is that there is a wide range of > specific color matches on the PDN color palette that would work for > any given alternative process. I also checked Michael Koch-Schultze's > color arrays and you can find multiple working squares there as well. > > I will continue my tests today of this printer for smoothness and tonality. > > Sandy King
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