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by Mike McNamee Published 01/04/2009

Colour testing

We bespoke profiled the paper using an Epson 3800 and Matt Black ink. For settings we chose media as velvet Fine Art, resolution 2880dpi and High Speed set 'On'. The results were excellent. The gamut volume was 530,670, the Dmax 1.57 and metamerism 1.8 (D65 to Tungsten A on a 50% grey). The overall errors were low at 6.4ΔE Lab/2.87ΔE 2000. As is typical of a matt fine art paper, the skin tones were extremely accurate and the low final Dmax depressed the data for the landscape colour set. The overall colour performance did not match Bamboo, which turned in remarkable figures. The gamut volume was slightly lower (Bamboo was 544,157). However, this is still an attractive paper with an above-average result on the measurement statistics. So if you want to go greener and keep standards high you might well give it a try. It is available in A4, A3, A3+ and A2 sheet sizes along with roll sizes between 17 and 44 inches.

Monochrome Tests

In a monochrome special it would be rude not to make some mono prints with a test paper! A slightly cream paper such as this is of benefit to a warm-toned printing approach for both landscape and portraiture. We chose to examine Paul Gallagher's cover image. We set up the ABW driver for Velvet Fine Art with a 'warm' tone a Light settings.

This created a print with tremendous depth and detail. The warmth of the paper complemented the slight warming due to the ABW print setting.

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