Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (long)

["Dave King" <kingphoto@mindspring.com>]

Hi Laurie,

I never tried the earlier iterations as I was wary of the orange
fading problem, so I can't answer your first question.  The imaging
quality of the 3rd version with oem dye is the best quality in terms
of commercial uses I've seen coming from ink jet, and many 1270 users
will say the same thing, and the 1200 and 1160 with oem dyes on this
paper are very comparable to the 1270.  Bob Meyer has found the 3rd
version still goes orange, but not as fast.  (See his latest update
for more detail.)  This doesn't concern me however for my intended
uses (portfolio, proofing, and repro).  In addition, with Profiler Pro
and the DTP-41, the grayscale is linear enough to use for B&W repro
and portfolio purposes.  I will use Generations in a 7000 on Crane
Mueso for archival printing.  Having both approaches available should
meet my particular printing needs very nicely.

As to how it will reproduce, I don't know from first hand experience
yet, but I feel pretty sure it will be excellent as long as the ink
jet dots are sufficiently small compared to the screen used for
reproduction.  A larger ink jet image than the final repro size is a
good practice, as it is with conventional analog prints.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: Laurie Solomon <laurie@advancenet.net>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 7:20 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (long)


> Dave,
>
> That is very useful information.  I have seen packages of EPGPP in
the
> stores with "new" and "improved" stickers on them; but since the
original
> EPGPP often had similar stickers on them, I was not sure if I could
trust
> them to be the reformulated paper or the old paper which while
discontinued
> by Epson was still in a lot of distributor's pipelines.  How do you
find the
> quality of the new reformulated version as compared to the old
version with
> respect to the dread orange fade as well as other non archival
related
> qualities?  An interesting side question which is not OT is: Have
your or
> anyone else tried rescanning scanned images printed on the EPGPP
paper and
> with what results?  I would think that such a question would furnish
some
> indication as to what sorts of results one might expect if one were
to send
> those types of prints to a Rpro house for scanning and printing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Dave King
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 5:22 PM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (long)
>
>
> In the US there are two ways, one, often (but not always) there's a
> sticker added to the package that states the manufacturing date.
I've
> seen Dec '00, and the last batch I purchased said 2001.  Second, the
> lot numbers of earlier iterations ended in 0, the 3rd iteration ends
> in 1.  Lot number is on back of package at bottom.
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Hayward at Hopco <john.hayward.hopco@attglobal.net>
> To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 10:36 AM
> Subject: RE: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (long)
>
>
> > Dave
> >
> > How can one tell that the PQPP one buys is the 'third' iteration?
> >
> > John
> >
> >   > -----Original Message-----
> >   > From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> >   > [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Dave
King
> >   > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 3:30 AM
> >   > To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> >   > Subject: Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (long)
> >   >
> >   >
> >   > Epson Premium Quality Photo Paper.  The quality with Epson oem
> dye
> >   > inks is quite amazing with adequate profiles.  And it's widely
> >   > available.  But you want to be sure to get the 3rd iteration.
> >   >
> >   > Dave
> >   >
> >   > ----- Original Message -----
> >   > From: Michael Moore <miguelmas@qwest.net>
> >   > To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
> >   > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 10:02 PM
> >   > Subject: Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (long)
> >   >
> >   >
> >   > > What is PQPP?
> >   > >
> >   > > Mike M.
> >   >
>