Hahnemuhle Paper

Can I use the above paper on my Epson 2200 printer? Thanks Derek

Yes should work fine, if there is no ICC for it from their site you will need to have one made.

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Aaron Winters
http://studion6.com

As I am new to digital printing will you please explain what ICC is.
Many thanks Derek

Honestly, if you're new to digital printing there's a lot of reading you should consider doing before printing with the 2200 and expensive cotton fiber paper like Hahnemuhle.

Some important issues:

1) Is your monitor calibrated and profiled? If not - don't worry about paper ICC profiles - the print will not match the screen.

2) Will you print B&W? If so you need a RIP for neutral B&W on the 2200. The 2200 is forced to use all colors when printing B&W (driver issue) and thus yellow is in every print. Often the default B&W print will have a yellow cast or green cast (it always has some color cast - it's never only B&W). A RIP replaces the Epson print driver and allows for "pure" B&W prints (no color cast). I used ImagePrint (since sold my 2200 for the Epson 4800 - no longer needs a RIP).

3) Will you print on luster paper? Again, a RIP will help considerably. Here the issue is bronzing and metamerism.

I don't want to scare you but I also don't want you to waste money on materials and not understand why the output is poor.

PS - Hahnemuhle is fabulous paper. I use the Photo Rag 308 gsm.

Joe

comoxbrit said:

As I am new to digital printing will you please explain what ICC is.
Many thanks Derek

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Go to this site ande choose "ICC Kleurprofielen" and then go further to your OS
http://www.arca-nl.nl/
Regards and success
Frits

Fritts, was able to follow the link to the page with Hahnemuhle profiles for the 2400 but cannot not determine which profile is which due to my inability to translate language. Could you provide a translation to what each of them are?

Thanks,
Matt

For windows:
http://www.hahnemuehle.com/site/us/1014/epson.html

For mac:
http://www.hahnemuehle.com/site/us/1012/epson.html
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Cynthia in South Florida
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If you can't find your manual, go to the Epson support site and download the pdf file for your manual. Read in there on how to set up your driver for printing with icc paper profiles. You will need to download the specific profiles and get the icc profle file into the appropriate folder on your system. They will then show up in a drop down list in your printer driver. Most good paper manufactureres should have profiles to download; go to their websites.

One last thing. Start off simple. Start with Epson paper premium gloss and enhanced matte. When you are satisfied with the results with these, then try experimenting with other papers. One word of caution. If you are not happy with the results you get meaning what you print is not close to what you see on the monitor, then you may need to invest in monitor calibrating software/hardware.
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Cynthia in South Florida
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Cynthia -- I know there are a lot of posts on this, but what do you recommend in the way of monitor calibration? Thanks.

I am flattered by your question but caution you, I am muddling along with this like the rest of you.

I am using the Optix XR and when I purchased it, Monaco was offering a free upgrade (like a rebate; had to mail in rebate forms for it) to the XR pro. Just got the upgrade info in the mail yesterday; it gives you a code to "open" the pro software which is on the XR regular install, the code just enables it. I went with this XR because it seemed to be reasonable (I think I paid about $179 through Normancamera.com) yet effective. It's very easy to run. You might want to check the Monaco website to see if they are still running this rebate.
Cynthia in South Florida
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Hi Larry,

I am very pleased with my Gretag Macbeth EyeOne 2 monitor calibrator. One caveat, however: you must set the luminance value lower than the Gretag's recommended setting. On my LCD monitors I set luminance at 100.

My calibrated Dell monitor matches output from my Epson R2400 very closely when I use my custom profiles.

--Fred F.

Fred:

What are you using for your custom profiles? Do you make them yourself or send them out to a profiler? If you do them yourself, what are you using? And if you send them out, to whom?

Thanks
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Cynthia in South Florida
http://cynthiam.smugmug.com/

Thanks for the web-site Cynthia, I looked it up and there are no profiles for the Epson 2200, so I will have to stick with Epson paper, which is very good, or buy the 2400. Thanks again...Derek

One caveat to this recommendation - I wouldn't use glossy paper in the Epson 2200 - unless you're ready for serious disappointed. Glossy is by far the weakest media for that printer. It thrives with matte and is fair to good with luster. That's why Epson introduced the 1800 - for glossy 13x19 printing. The 2200 and 2400 are both aimed at luster and matte - the more likely choices for nature/fine art photogs who sell their work.

Frankly, if gloss where the goal I'd opt for the Canon i9900.

Joe

comoxbrit said:

Thanks for the web-site Cynthia, I looked it up and there are no
profiles for the Epson 2200

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Look again... there are lots of profiles for the 2200 (same printer as the 2100)

Matt,

follow the link Epson 2100; it's the same as your 2200; just download the profiles from Hahnemule and don't bother about the Dutch text; just put the profiles in the right location.
Regards,
Frits