Ilford Gold Fibre Silk

<p>What are the downsides of printing with a dye ink printer (epson r800) onto paper that is optimized for pigment inks (Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk)?</p>

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<li>Missing profiles.</li>

<li>Bad output.</li>

<li>Waste of money.</li>

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<p>Sorry, but it's like that.</p>

<p>I printed on an HP8750, but didn't love the output. It wasn't the brownish tint (B&W only) I didn't like per se, but the paper itself isn't very white to begin with. Compared with other papers, it has a brownish-yellowish tint instead of pure white.</p>

<p>I would not try it on a dye printer, like Monika said no profiles and poor output. I have used it extensively on my 3800 for mostly B&W prints and find it to be very good. The paper base is very slightly warmer then some other papers but I would never say that it had a brownish-yellowish tint. It is a cooler tone then say Museo Silver Rag. It is slightly warmer then Epson Exhibition fiber. So it is just one of the papers I keep on stock for its particular look.</p>

<p>Okay, the Epson R800 and R1800 are pigment based printers using a variant of Epson's K3 Ultrachrome ink set, with profiles for this paper.</p>

<p>Thanks Roger, thats it. I couldn't understand why my output was very good when I thought the paper wasn't designed for the ink. I finally found the correct icc profile and that has improved my monitor/print accuracy.</p>