Printing Your Memories with the EPSON SureLab D870

Want to print a large number of photos blazingly fast at a price that doesn’t break the bank, yet has a professional look and feel? I did, so I wrote this review to see if the EPSON SureLab D870 lived up to its promises and my very high standards as a professional print master, print book author and Senior Program Manager of the Microsoft Windows print team for 3 years.

If you are here just for the review of this printer designed for professional photographers then you can skip the next section. If you are a photography hobbyist or someone with a lot of photos that you wish you had time to print, then you may enjoy the background story below about why I am writing this article.

Background Story

According to my photo library management software, Mylio, I have roughly 450,000 photos saved on my NAS and for my phones I have 100,000+ in Google Photos plus 22,000 in iCloud. Now out of those roughly 572k photos I’ve made about 30k public and shown my family about another 10k or so on top of that. Let’s assume I’m being too conservative though and say that the total number of photos seen by eyes other than mine is really 72,000 photos. That means I have a half million photos that have never been seen by others, and that’s from someone who is internationally known for photography AND printing!!!!

Now I will admit that because I shoot in burst mode, there’s probably plenty of photos that my eyes have only glanced at once or twice. However, this past March I had a lot of time to think as I drove from Seattle to Texas (and back) to bury my Dad. While I was at his place in a rural Texas town I found myself enjoying old family prints from the time before digital photography. It kinda hit me like a ton of bricks that I wasn’t judging these photos for their composition, sharpness, color, etc… – I was just enjoying the walk down memory lane.This reminded me of a common complaint from my wife who tells me “you have all those photos, but they are useless because I can’t even see any of them”.

Now we do enjoy plenty of photos on our Meural digital frames as well as the fantastic photo frame experience of the Google Nest Hub Max, so if you aren’t doing that I still highly recommend that. My wife enjoys printing her cell phone photos with her Epson PictureMate, and I’m a heavy user of my EPSON P800 and P5000 printers for my fine art photography work. However, there’s a decade of digital photos that live on my redundant NAS storage devices that really need to be combed through so I can print those memories to be enjoyed the good old fashioned way – by holding them in a hand – long after me and my NAS devices, digital frames and phones are long gone. More importantly, they need to be enjoyed by my kids and future grandkids (hopefully) as I have enjoyed the print photos my parents and generations before them took.

As I was driving through beautiful places like Moab, Utah during my long drive I got to thinking about how sad it would be if my family couldn’t enjoy the experience of seeing my photos because they got lost due to some digital tragedy after I was gone. Sure I have lots of digital backups, but what if those after me just simply stopped tracking all of that data and ultimately it was lost? What would be left? Just the prints – and most likely just the ones in good old fashion photo albums or printed photo books.

Now my success with this blog has given me a benefit many of you don’t have, so my cost at trying photo print services, printing photo books, archiving photos digitally, making professional prints, etc… is usually $0.00. With the cost excuse out of the way, I still have my wife complaining that she doesn’t know happened for most of the years we were dating and the first 10 years of my sons life outside of what you see on the blog (which is also what’s on our digital frames). Why is that? I have no excuses, right?

Well, it turns out that I still work 60+ hour weeks despite the fact that I’m not blogging like I used to. I’m also the father of 4 children which includes active 11 and 4 year old kids who need to spend time with Dad when he stops his workaholic days, so my free time usually begins around 10:00 PM at night (which was the start of my blogging work day years ago). Weekends end up being family time as well, so I’m lucky to get 20 minutes here, 30 minutes there to do activities that I enjoy – like editing or printing personal photos. With these constraints, I find myself getting deeper in the hole each month as I still shoot photos regularly, but I fail to find to edit or print photos that aren’t for my clients or blog. Simply put, my cherished personal photos don’t get prioritized – sound familiar?

Sure, I occasionally tell myself I’m going to do it and then I find myself falling into the second trap – I end up going through a few dozen photos and then spending all my personal time editing one or two of these photos. At this pace it would take me a few centuries to accomplish my goal of leaving prints that memorialize my wonderful life for generations that come after me.

When I had this discussion with my wife she challenged me – why don’t you just identify the best family photos and JUST PRINT THEM. She insisted – don’t waste your time editing them because its better to leave the memories behind than it is to have them lost because you couldn’t let the professional photographer inside you forgive yourself for not making professional images. She even went so far to remind me about my strict policy of publishing photos on the blog for camera and lens reviews that are 100% unedited (all are in-camera JPEG), so why couldn’t I do the same for my digital memories and “just print the damn things”.

Again, is any of this ringing a bell with you?

Well, its my own love of photo editing and desire to have my important pictures that have been a mental block keeping me from doing what I needed to do, so I made a pact with her and myself that I’d finally address this problem. My objective – to print my collection – but obviously not all 500k+ photos – just the memories through the years.

I started with my 2007 photos collection – the year I got serious about digital photography (after years of “thankfully” being a film photographer with prints – albeit very bad ones). After 3 months of pouring through – just that one years worth of photos – I identified about 460 images that seemed to be worth printing. I took 22,271 photos that year, so roughly 2% were what I’d consider “family classics” that I’d want to hand down to generations after me. They also represent just over an hour of printing by the amazing SureLab D870.

Wow – after the long battle of pouring through all of these photos – and admittedly probably spending too long in Lightroom doing minor tweaks on some of them – it took me 3 months to pinpoint the photos and a little over an hour to have a big stack of 4x6 prints to put in a photo album or at least a shoebox (guess what I actually did :). I didn’t have to then upload them to some service and fight with its UI, I didn’t have to deal with a ROES system for a service built for volume printing, I didn’t have to fight the crappy tools to build photo albums that never preserve my desired aspect ratios so I end up spending weeks to build a simply 20 page “book”.

No, this was much easier – I just dumped all of the files out as Full Size JPEG’s, went to the folder in Windows Explorer, selected all of the photos then did a right-click and Print (which launches the native Windows Photo Print Wizard). 

REVIEW: Epson SureLab D870

EPSON describes this printer as “The fast minilab printer for demanding small-format photo production”, and I’d say that actually hits the nail on the head. This six ink dye-based ink printer is optimized to print 4" x 6" prints in as fast as 8.3 seconds (using 720 x 360 dpi) and up to 430 4" x 6" prints, 275 5" x 7" prints, or 140 8" x 10" prints per hour – that’s screaming fast!!!

This means if you are a school, event or wedding portrait photographer you can print the bulk of your photos on this printer very quickly even if you have a huge amount of photos to print. What’s more, the Epson SureLab Luster Photo Inkjet roll paper and Epson UltraChrome D6r-S Light Ink Cartridges are extremely affordable, so you will not only save time but your cost per print will be peanuts compared to SureColor professional printers – yet they will have that same high-quality professional feel same in the hand to your clients. While its true you will sacrifice the archival and tonal range characteristics of the UltraChrome^® inks, it does allow you to have more competitive pricing for the time and money you’ll save with this solution. You can also still use your professional pigment ink printers for the larger prints sold at a premium price.

Simply put, if you print a lot of prints for your business – this is a no-brainer purchase that will quickly yield a return on your investment as you enjoyed with your 70-200 f/2.8 lens! However, I’m not and many of my readers aren’t either.

I decided to review this printer with a slightly different intention – does this printer make sense for the hobbyist to print their collection and can it produce results that are better than the typical low budget print services (e.g., Costco, Walgreens, Shutterfly, etc…).

How I Printed 495 Photo Print Jobs

I identified the photos I wanted to print in Lightroom and then exported out all of my pics as full-size sRGB JPEG files to the same folder. I would then select all, right click and choose print. This launches the Print Pictures wizard whereby I set the settings as shown above and then then clicked options to modify the printer driver as follows:

Don't forget to change the Color Management setting to ICM for best results!!!!

This gave perfect borderless prints, but the prints were dark. This was easily corrected by changing the Color Management to ICM with no other changes necessary in the Advanced… settings.

Like all borderless printing, if your aspect ratio of your images don’t match the output you are going to lose quite a bit of picture detail. As a result, you may choose to NOT do borderless to avoid that. If you go down that route some 4x6 prints taken from 3:2 aspect ratio source images may have a small white line on one edge of the photo but its not bothersome to me.

Sorry Mac users, I only tested on Windows 10 1909 over USB, so I have no comments about using this printer from a Mac.

I did successfully print to this printer from Lightroom and Photoshop, but this method was by far the fastest and recommended to me by my friends at EPSON. After much experimentation, I agreed and stuck to this method throughout my time with this printer.

Oh and if you are wondering why I had 495 photos – well that was just the limit I gave myself for each year worth of photos.

Actual Observed Performance

When printing 4x6 borderless prints I observed it took an average of 7.2 seconds per print which excludes the nearly 2 minutes it took for the Windows Print Wizard to create the print job and then another 4 minutes it took Windows to spool the 6GB print jobs (495 photos) I would throw at it. I excluded that as my Windows system is getting a little old so a faster performing system might be much quicker.

Conclusion

Pouring through tons of photos to identify the ones you want to print is really the big time sync. I completely underestimated how long this task would take – especially given my crazy busy work schedule. I could have been less picky when pouring through 20,000+ photos per year, but 500 pics creates a pile of photos over 6 inches tall that then need to be dealt with later (e.g., put in a photo album, or even organized in a shoebox). Sadly when printing this any when the photos pile up they don’t end up in a meaningful order, they just get mixed all together out of order. This means I ended up with a huge pile of photos that needed to be sorted once again by hand.

I definitely think the quality of the luster prints I got was very good but obviously not as good as I can get from my SureColor printers with a complete color managed workflow in Lightroom/Photoshop or with Epson Print Layout.

For a consumer who can afford a large format printer or $2000+ lens, I think this is definitely a great investment to print your own 4x6, 5x7, 8x10 or letter size prints at home – especially now during COVID-19. I’d much prefer to do my own than send them off to a service – especially with the hassle of having to upload all of the photos and configure the settings for the photos (or god forbid dealing with horrible ROES systems).

Obviously if you are the budget conscious type or one who thinks Costco / Walgreens / Shutterfly prints are just fine, then go for it. I’m not that type as I’m pretty picky and I don’t like a big pile of prints that don’t look even close to color accurate to me.

If you are a wedding, event, portrait photographer, etc.. – this is a no brainer investment. Yes, you’ll still want a SureColor printer for your large prints and the Bride’s wedding album, but for everything else these prints are going to look very professional and make your clients happy.

The only knocks I really have against this printer is that the lack of pigment means these prints aren’t going to last as long, which I care about for archival purposes. That said, I think they’ll look significant better in 40 years than the prints my parents took of me and had developed at the drug store, so really its more of an academic discussion than anything else. If a photo was so important that it needed a 200+ year archival lifespan then I’d print it on the SureColor anyway – and it won’t be hundreds of prints!

So, if you can afford it – get it. Its a big upfront investment that will pay off quickly thanks to super inexpensive ink and paper. The performance will give you back valuable time and you'll avoid being the most hated family member for sucking all your household bandwidth uploading photos to print services.

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Printing Series: Douglas Dubler – Fashion Photographer & Epson Stylus Pro Master Printer

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My printing series, which I hope everyone is enjoying, would never have existed had it not been for Douglas Dubler. I first met Douglas at the Nik Summit  in 2010 and was floored by his “Avatar Beauty” print (a 44” x 60” beauty shot shown at the end of this section) that had such amazing color and detail that I could stare at it all day long. I was immediately hooked and realized that now was the time to get into printing.

Before meeting Douglas, I had always advised people to outsource their printing to avoid the headaches I had endured in the past when trying to print my own photos. However, Douglas assured me that all my fears and concerns based on past horrible experiences were no longer valid. He explained that amazing prints were now possible by anyone – with the right tools if you just followed the proper procedures. In fact, he declared it was so easy that “a monkey could do it.” With that gauntlet thrown down, I set out to prove if Douglas was right, and I quickly discovered he was 100% correct! With the headaches of the past (mostly) gone, I decided it was time to share the joy of printing – the final and most important part of the art of photography - with all of my readers.

All that I’ve learned from this amazing master printer would take years to blog, so I set out on a journey that resulted in my Printing Series and book. I hope that you enjoy the tips here so that you can get the same passion for printing that Douglas, and I now share. I hope you enjoyed my printing series, so if you ever see Douglas, be sure to thank him for it!

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Custom Paper Profile Guru

It seems that every master printer, RIP software vendor, printing product maker, etc… in North America knows Douglas Dubler. To many he is the ultimate paper profile guru who shows what is possible when you fight your way for that last 10% of printing perfection. His prints are a testimony to the reward he gets from spending several days building a perfect paper profile.

Yes, Douglas Dubler is hard core when it comes to paper profiles – probably more than you’ll ever want to be. However, there’s much to learn from Douglas no matter what level of investment you decide to make in printing. There’s also one thing that he taught me that is 100% true – your final print is really only as good as the paper profile you use to print it. Don’t believe me? Check out my ColorMunki article where I show how a simple paper profile can make a radical difference on a sub $100 printer with crappy generic paper.

The good news for the rest of us is that Douglas is a highly respected member of the X-Rite Coloratti who has been actively involved in helping to make the paper profiling process more accurate and easier for everyone. Even if you have never heard of Douglas, if you print using paper profiles generated by an X-Rite product then you owe Douglas a debt of gratitude for what he’s done to help to improve the process and fantastic results we are capable of enjoying today.

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Printing so easy a monkey could do it!

This was the claim that Douglas made, but in retrospect it could be a bit of a play on words as this series kicked off with a review of the X-Rite ColorMunki (now replaced by the i1 Studio). The ColorMunki is the entry level way to get an even larger monkey off your back – prints with horrible color that don’t resemble what you see on your display! Sure there’s more advanced products which can be used to get that last 10% of perfection for the fine art print, but Douglas was adamant that anyone could get great results worthy of hanging in their home. His formula for great prints is quite simple:

1. Start with a good image – Shoot a great image in RAW and process that raw data as a 16-bit ProPhoto RGB image in Photoshop or his current favorite, Capture One. Without a great image and lots of data to work with, then the rest of the workflow fails.
     
2. Calibrate your display – without a calibrated display you are effectively playing printing equivalent of Russian Roulette. It is virtually impossible to edit your image in a way that can be viewed on other devices (i.e., printers and other people’s displays) with the same vision you had for the colors in your image when you processed it (i.e., in Aperture, Lightroom, Photoshop, etc…). For this you need hardware designed to calibrate your display, and Douglas recommends a  i1Photo Pro 2 or better because it includes a spectrophotometer (more on that later). However if you can’t afford that, then at least an i1Display Pro is necessary . Some operating system tools for visual software calibration exist, but are only as accurate as your eyes and for most of us that isn’t very accurate as this test proves. His recommended display calibration settings are 6100K, 2.2 Gamma and 120 brightness.
     
3. Use a good paper profile – Here’s where things can start getting complicated, depending on how good you want your results to be. For any of us, just using the paper profiles provided by the OEM for our printer will give satisfactory results with a monitor that is calibrated. This is possible via soft proofing where you have your monitor calibrated and you use software like Adobe Photoshop to apply a printer paper profile to adjust your display image so that it is a close representation of how your image will appear after it is printed.
    
   You can improve upon this result by using a spectrophotometer like the i1 Studio to create your own paper profiles which I discuss in very old my ColorMunki review. I covered more advanced paper profiling in my i1Xtreme review (now replaced by the i1Photo Pro).
    
4. Print using a great printer – As a serious entry level printer Douglas recommends Epson’s SureColor P800 or for the ultimate; his current high end choice, the 17” SureColor P5000 Epson printer w/UltraChrome HDX inkset.
      
5. Print on only the best papers - The Epson Legacy papers (Legacy Baryta and Legacy Platine) are Douglas' favorite gloss papers. While all of the Epson Legacy papers are extremely good, he really loves Legacy Fibre because it has such a wide color gamut, improved longevity with the new UltraChrome HD (P800) and HDX (P5000, P9000) Epson ink sets. It creates amazing prints using matte black ink.

Of course this is just a basic workflow and Douglas is not a basic guy.

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Douglas Dubler’s Full Workflow

Douglas only shoots with the best equipment possible, which for him is the Sony A7R III  and Phase One IQ3 100MP medium format, Broncolor strobes using the Scoro S power packs.

He explains that he wants to start with the best image possible and add his artistic touch on top of that. He doesn’t want to waste time compensating for crappy equipment. Once he has that great 16-bit ProPhoto image ready, he does the following:

1. Start with a good wide-color gamut display – Douglas uses a Eizo ColorEdge CG247X as his primary display and the NEC MultiSync PA241W-BK (which I use too – and  love it) as his secondary display. He recommends at least a i1Basic Pro 2 for calibrating your display . To calibrate your Eizo display, Douglas recommends Eizo Color Navigator and for the NEC he only recommends the SpectraView II Display Calibration Software.       
   
2. Prepare your image for print – He strongly believes that your image should be resized to its final size and resolution using on1 Perfect Resize and he does a special two pass sharpen Nik Software’s Sharpener Pro to prepare his images for a final print.      
   
3. Create great paper profiles using your own spectrophotometer - Douglas uses the X-Rite i1iSis XL Color Calibration System (B&H), but a X-Rite i1iO Automated Scan Table 2 or even the i1Photo Pro 2 can be used to create the best possible profiles for your paper. 
4. Analyze your profile using ColorThink Pro (review) – Give this product your image & paper profile, and it graphs you can see where the image exceeds the ability of the paper to reproduce portions of your image (i.e., out of gamut areas). You can use this data to modify your image or try different paper profiles to see which paper will give you the most color gamut coverage. This can be very useful when selecting papers as some papers will be able to render more colors in your image than others.
   
5. Use ColorBurst OverDrive – Douglas feels that the best way to get the most out of your Epson printer is to use great RIP software. For Douglas, that only means you have several choices including Mirage, ColorByte ImagePrint, or ColorBurst OverDrive. He feels using a RIP gives him the best image quality possible. It also gives him the features necessary to come back and get those same great results in the future (which may sound silly you now, but after reading my Printing 101 eBook – you’ll understand how complex it can sometimes be to get the same results on another day). Douglas claims to be able to do it years later and with his fastidious workflow, I believe him!
   
6. Use the best ink and papers – He strongly recommends that you stay away from third party ink and refills as you are defeating one of the major benefits that the Epson printer platform offers – fantastic archival ink! He also highly recommends that you at least try the new Epson Legacy papers.  See my printing series for more reviews of great papers too.      
   
7. Print big on the best printer – For Douglas, the Epson SureColor P9000 is the best printer on the market - period. Nothing makes a statement like a large print, and I can testify that it is quite magical seeing the results from these amazing machines. You may enjoy this video of Douglas discussing how he gets the most out of his large format Epson printers.   
8. Inspect your prints in good light – Douglas uses a GTI VPI 52 print inspection station, and recommended the product I use – the GTI PDV-2020EX Desktop Viewer - 23.5 x 25.3" with Lower Luminaire and Side Walls. The ability to critically examine your image in consistent and color balanced light helps you to judge what corrections might be necessary to your image to get the best possible result, GTI’s solutions offer that advantage. Randy Hufford, Greg Gorman, and others featured in this series are a big fan of these light boxes and after using one you can never be satisfied with any other light source for image editing.
9. Become a Master Printer – If reading this brief synopsis really inspires you to master fine art digital print making, then Douglas offers one-on-one remote viewed sessions in a ten-hour complete course on all aspects of color management from concept to output. Contact me for details if you are interested.

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Conclusion

I’d like to thank Douglas Dubler for the countless hours he took out of his busy schedule to educate me and answer my every question. Douglas is super funny and honest guy who really cares both about creating amazing prints and sharing his knowledge with those who follow in his footsteps. It has been an honor to work with him as my dream is to one day be able to create the amazing fashion photos he has on his portfolio at http://www.DouglasDubler3.com.

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More Douglas Dubler Articles

Since I originally wrote this article, Douglas has been kind enough to share more content with me. Here's  few more articles featuring Douglas that I think you will enjoy:

• A Point and Shoot That Beats Most DSLR Portfolio Shots
• Getting The Shot: “Indonesian Beauty” by Douglas Dubler 3
• Getting The Shot: “Indonesian Beauty II” by Douglas Dubler 3

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REVIEW/DISCOUNT: Breathing Color Art Peel - Inkjet Printable Wall Fabric with Repositionable Adhesive (A Canvas Alternative)

Breathing Color Art Peel (24 x 48" Panels x 3)

At this point you are probably wondering what the heck a "Inkjet Printable Wall Fabric with Repositionable Adhesive" is and why you should keep reading?!!! However, if you do your own printing you are going to love this stuff WAY better than canvas.

In a nutshell, as you can see from the crooked iPhone shot above, this stuff is a high quality fabric that you can print on and then hang like wallpaper. However, it has a big benefit - you can remove it and reapply it which is great if you are terrible at hanging wall paper like me!

Here's a short video that shows how the adhesive works on my dusty laundry room wall:

The funny thing is that I printed that print around July and have hung it around my house in several places before leaving it sitting in the hot laundry room for the last few months. I didn't clean or prep the walls - I just stuck it like you would a post it note just to see what would happen. In fact, my goal was to get it to wrinkle or peel off, but that didn't happen!

Once I was sure it would work great, I finally decided to go big and printed a 72 x 48" version of one of my favorite images - Treehouse (but an all new edit that is warmer and more saturated).

Perfect Resize from on1 - Tile Feature (learn more)

I used Perfect Resize to make it big and split it into three tiles (as shown above), but in retrospect I should have taken advantage of the overlap feature. I also had some issues with the AM1 file I used with my Canon printer, so I couldn't do borderless which was a bummer too. I don't have a steady enough hand to cut something that big perfectly, so I just hung it with the lame borders. That said, it still looks amazing when hung and I get asked all of the time "what is that", since this fabric is unlike anything I've ever seen (and most likely you too).

Print Quality

I printed out some letter size prints using the ICC profile that I got from Breathing Color for my Canon PRO-2000 printer, and using my Epson V850 pro scanner I scanned the swatches. Of course this means the grayscale ramp, gray squares and black squares lose some fidelity (you can see more in real life), but this gives you a ballpark idea of how good this stuff is as these images are scans of prints - which always suck - yet these look pretty good...

Full Resolution JPEG V850 Scan of a Art Peel Print from Canon PRO-2000
The printer evaluation image turned out great with the reds and skin tones being spot on

Full Resolution JPEG V850 Scan of a Art Peel Print from Canon PRO-2000
This turned out accurately, but you can see that the background is a little stronger green than black compared to the original file. With that said, this still looks good enough to hang on a wall.

Full Resolution JPEG V850 Scan of a Art Peel Print from Canon PRO-2000
Here's a smaller version of treehouse that has been resized via the printer from the original.
I felt the colors were very good with all things considered, so going big was no problem - and I'm glad I did it!

ICC Profile

ICC Profile Comparison of Art Peel
vs Canon Artistic Matte Canvas
vs Epson Exhibition Matte Canvas

I decided to compare the ICC Profile with a Canvas profile for my PRO-2000 and an Epson P800. While you can see there's definitely some gaps in the tonal range, it  is in the ball paper with those much higher fidelity substrates. Those doing color critical work might have to do a little tweaking to get the best results, but I think most users will be happy right out the gate with what you get using this substrate. Breathing Color has done a fantastic job of providing good ICC profiles for Art Peel!

Using Art Peel in Photoshop on Canon PRO-2000

Here's my workflow for printing onto Art Peel using my Canon PRO-2000 printer from Windows.

In my case I had a custom media type AM1 file that I got from Breathing Color. The advantage of it is that I knew I'd get the right amount of ink on the substrate, but the downside is that this AM1 file was made for a PRO-4000 so I couldn't edit it (due to a software limitation). The reason I wanted to edit it is because this AM1 media type file didn't allow borderless printing which I really wanted to do. If I were you I'd work with Breathing Color to get a new one that supports borderless:

I click Color Settings button and set matching to Off because I like to specify the ICC profile in Photoshop for Soft Proofing, even though AM1 files support embedded ICC's:

In this example, I'm just showing a letter size print but with the AM1 file I had even if I were to set borderless I'd still get a border. As a result, my advice is to experiment and start small with test prints before you start making your big prints.

In addition to using rotate page 90 degrees like I did above, I also like to use No Spaces at Top or Bottom to get a final product that wastes as little paper as possible. My AM1 also blocked cutting so I had to manually advance and cut with scissors on a crop line.

In Photoshop the key thing was to do was make sure I selected Photoshop Manages Colors, the correct ICC profile, and I found Relative Colormetric with Black Point Compensation gave me the most accurate color results:

I typically click Gamut Warning too just so I can see what colors are going to get impacted by the rendering intent selection and if I want to make image adjustments to bring colors back into gamut.

The workflow is effectively the same on the Mac or other printers, but the names and locations of things change. Check out my printing series to see how I print from other products like Breathing Color Lyve Canvas using Epson printers or Legacy Papers to see both Windows and Mac printing from Photoshop and Lightroom. 

Conclusion

This is by far the most exciting time I've had printing because I was able to make a favorite print of mine come to live in huge 72x48 wallpaper print that was easy to hang (and trust me I suck really bad at hanging wallpaper). Air bubbles and wrinkles were no problem as I just peeled it back and tried again. This stuff has some really great adhesive so it didn't damage any of the paints or sheetrock I applied it to, and despite not prepping the walls it stuck well and didn't show the wall texture through the paper (probably mostly due to my test images being very busy).

My wife is dying to do some wallpaper for the baby's room with this stuff and I've got some fun ideas for the garage and man cave! As far as papers go, it may not have the highest DMAX of papers I've tested this year, but I've seen worse from many canvas products. It also is good enough when viewed at a short arms length to be good enough that people never asked me about the things I saw wrong with the large print - they only asked me what this cool product was and how could they use it to make their own big prints with it.

I HIGHLY recommend this product which comes in two versions. The regular Art Peel and the Art Peel Blackout version which features a backing that prevents the wall color from showing through. This is important if you want to put a light colored print on a dark wall and not have the wall color ruin the print.

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Hahnemühle Matt Fine Art Photo Rag, German Etching and William Turner Review & Usage Tutorial for Mac & Windows

German paper maker Hahnemühle is well-known for making some of the best papers in the business since 1584 with the highest paper quality parameters for its Digital FineArt papers.

In this article, I share my thoughts on the three excellent Hahnemühle Matt Fine Art papers of which two are textured:

• German Etching 310 gsm - 100% Cotton mould-made white (data sheet)
• William Turner 310 gsm - 100% Cotton mould-made white (data sheet)

and one is smooth:

• Photo Rag®  308 gsm - 100% Cotton white (data sheet)

I also give some basic pointers on how to use these papers on Mac and Windows computers using my Epson SureColor P800 and Canon PRO-2000 printers.

ICC Profile / Color Gamut Analysis

In the following animation, what you see is that all three of these Matt Fine Art papers have roughly the same size color gamut using the ICC profiles from the Hahnemühle Download Center. The animation starts off with William Turner then Photo Rag and finally German Etching:

While there are some subtle differences, in practice all three papers performed equally well. I did find that it is possible to get a lot more out of these papers with a finely tuned custom ICC profile so some users may look to building their own or leveraging ColorByte ImagePrint for the best results.

Despite the fact that matte papers traditionally have a smaller color gamut and a lower d-max (maximum density of blacks in a printed image) than glossy fine art papers, I found all three of these papers to be extremely good and delightful in use. In fact, for the prints I put on display I frequently found that viewers didn't realize it was a matte paper until I told them or they touched these papers.

In the hand

While some people swear off matte papers like the plague, I personally love them for one significant reason and that's how they feel in your hand. I'm a very tactile person so I love wood, leather, linen, cotton, etc... because of their textures and how it feels in my hands.

If you are this type of person then you are in for a sensory delight with these papers. Here's my thoughts on each:

• Photo Rag - this is the paper you want if you want a hearty substantial feel, yet a smooth surface that draws the light in a positive way for a brighter natural white tone. I found it to have a light surface texture that when viewed at a harsh angle is visually delightful as it has the appearance of a centuries old handmade paper. This is the go to paper for portraits of models with smooth skin that you want to touch.
• German Etching - this paper takes the texture that is visible in Photo Rag and brings it to the surface for a noticeable texture that feels like a very high quality hand made paper that is a joy to hold in the hand. It's almost orange peel like, but in a good and more aesthetically pleasing way. This is the perfect paper for images with leather, clothes, fruit, flowers, etc...
• William Turner - this paper has a significant "tooth" to it and I love it! It's almost like 600+ grit sandpaper which might sound weird, but when you hold it you think "wow, this is good stuff". Surprisingly it prints beautifully too so the texture vanishes unless held at an angle in indirect soft light. I love this paper for landscapes and images that look so real that you want to touch them (I.e., rock, wood, bark, etc...).

Scans of Prints

WARNING: Scanning a print to a JPEG means you end up with details from one color space being lost in another color space and a much lower fidelity image than what you hold in your hand. As a result DO NOT JUDGE the print color based on these images.

Instead, the value of this section is so you can do relative comparisons against the other scans of the same image for different paper types (in this article only - not other articles on this blog). This can be useful to see how these papers compare against each other with identical images.

It should also be noted that if you look carefully at the intentional white border of these scans of each of these papers that you can get a hint of the texture pattern for that given paper.

Click any print to see a full-size JPEG scan, but remember it's color fidelity is MUCH lower in the photo than in real life. All images are copyright Ron Martinsen and may not be used for any other purpose but viewing while this article is open in your web browser.

The Outback Printer image is courtesy of the late but great Uwe Steinmueller and used by permission of Bettina Steinmueller. It should be noted that in real life all three papers show visible squares up to 6 in the blacks and 252 in the whites, even though that detail is lost in the scans. The color is virtually identical even under a light box for all three which means you can mix papers and get color matching for gallery exhibitions.

Photo Rag

Outback Print Printer Evaluation Image - Photo Rag

Treehouse - Photo Rag

Gary - Photo Rag

Gary Parker is a Pulitzer prize winning photographer who has done magazine covers for the who's who of high tech including Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as well as amazing commercial pet images. He's also my friend and mentor, so I have this photo I took of him in hanging by desk that is printed on ILFORD GALERIE Prestige Smooth Pearl Photo Paper.

In my experience a glossy will always beat a matte paper when compared side by side, but what struck me about this print (in real life - vs the washed out looking scan) was how close it was in quality to the glossy - on a matte paper!

As a result, this was my paper of choice for this image because it felt smooth with a very subtle texture - much like Gary's vest. It was a perfect match for this photo, so I sent a copy of this print to Hahnemühle for review.

German Etching

German Etching is a long-time favorite of mine as Canon had sent it to me at the start of my printing series when I reviewed the iPF6300. I never got around to reviewing this paper and I loved it so much that I ended up hoarding the rolls to save this paper for only very special images. Years later, I had the freedom to try it out again and I loved pretty much everything I printed on it.

Outback Print Printer Evaluation Image - German Etching

Treehouse - German Etching

Gary - German Etching

While the colors from the scan are very washed out from a source image that is intentionally aged (using Texture Effects), the combination of this paper and its texture reminded me of what my hand felt when I touched this chair. I immediately knew it was the perfect paper for this print and immediately printed a copy to send to Hahnemühle for review.

Now this is a favorite image of mine done with Simplify that people either love or hate with every fiber of their being. I'm okay with that though because any image that evokes strong emotions is a successful image in my opinion.

With that said, I never imagined ever printing this image as it's obviously meant for the digital realm. However, the feel of German Etching reminded me of the feel and texture of these stones so I had to print it out. The net result is something that turned out better than expected and one that I actually enjoyed holding in my hand for the first time.

William Turner

Outback Print Printer Evaluation Image - William Turner

Treehouse - William Turner

This was my paper of choice for the Treehouse print I sent to Hahnemühle for review. The texture of the paper just reminds me of the feel of the wood of the cabin, so it just felt so right to print this image on this paper.  It's ironic too because this photo was a huge commercial success for me, but I had never printed it. As soon as I touched this paper, that immediately changed and it immediately became a favorite test print for this series as the detail of the reds on the wall behind the light really showed the characteristics of the reds for a given ICC profile.

Gary - William Turner

Usage Instructions / Tutorial

In this section, which is a bit redundant if you review the whole section, I try to get you pointed in the right direction about how to set your application (e.g., Photoshop) to use the correct ICC profile and media type so you can get the best results with these papers.

Canon PRO-2000 from Photoshop (Mac)

Printing using these papers from Photoshop is easy as long as you remember to set Color Handling to "Photoshop Manages Colors" and then set your Printer Profile to the appropriate paper as shown here (Photo Rag profile shown):

The ICC profile you use will come from the Hahnemühle Download Center for your specific printer, but in this case for the Canon PRO-2000 I had the following choices:

• German Etching paper uses HFA_CanPro2000_MK_GermEtching.icc
• Photo Rag Matt Fine Art Smooth uses HFA_CanPro2000_MK_PhotoRag.icc
• William Turner paper uses HFA_CanPro2000_MK_WTurner.icc
  

and I made sure to use my desired rendering intent and checked black point compensation.

If you click "Print Settings..." you'll see the printer settings dialog where you can specify the media type "under Quality & Media" which can be Heavyweight Fine Art Paper for all of these papers as shown here:

Epson SureColor P800 from Photoshop (Windows)

Printing using these papers from Photoshop is easy as long as you remember to set Color Handling to "Photoshop Manages Colors" and then set your Printer Profile to the appropriate paper as shown here (Photo Rag profile shown):

The ICC profile you use will come from the Hahnemühle Download Center for your specific printer, but in this case for the Epson P800 I had the following choices:

• German Etching paper uses HFA_EpsSC-P8000_MK_GermEtching.icc
• Photo Rag Matt Fine Art Smooth uses HFA_EpsSC-P800_MK_PhotoRag.icc
• William Turner paper uses HFA_EpsSC-P800_MK_WTurner.icc
  

and I made sure to use my desired rendering intent and checked black point compensation.

If you click "Print Settings..." you'll see the printer settings dialog where you can specify the media type which can be Velvet Fine Art Paper for all of these papers as shown here:

Be sure that Print Quality is set to "Max Quality" and that Mode: is set to "Off (No Color Adjustment)" to ensure that you don't get an ugly double color managed print. Epson will also force you to use the Front - Fine Art paper settings source so if that's a problem then you should use the Epson Print Layout software as shown in the Mac section (works for Windows too).

Canon PRO-2000 from Photoshop (Windows)

Printing using these papers from Photoshop is easy as long as you remember to set Color Handling to "Photoshop Manages Colors" and then set your Printer Profile to the appropriate paper as shown here (William Turner profile shown):

The ICC profile you use will come from the Hahnemühle Download Center for your specific printer, but in this case for the Canon PRO-2000 I had the following choices:

• German Etching paper uses HFA_CanPro2000_MK_GermEtching.icc
• Photo Rag Matt Fine Art Smooth uses HFA_CanPro2000_MK_PhotoRag.icc
• William Turner paper uses HFA_CanPro2000_MK_WTurner.icc
  

and I made sure to use my desired rendering intent and checked black point compensation.

If you click "Print Settings..." you'll see the printer settings dialog where you can specify the media type which can be Heavyweight Fine Art Paper for all of these papers as shown here:

Don't forget to set Print Quality to Highest and choose "Color Settings..." where you can go tot he Matching tab as shown below and set "Color Correction" to "Off" as shown here:

This step makes sure you don't accidentally do double color matching which might sound good to the uninformed but looks horrible when you print.

Epson Print Layout Software (Mac & Windows)

Epson Print Layout Software is handy software that works on both Mac and Windows that helps you to get great prints without having to use Photoshop. While I won't give a tutorial on how to use this product, I will point out that you simply need to set the Media Type to "Velvet Fine Art Paper" and specify the correct ICC profile in the Color Settings section as shown below (for German Etching):

The ICC profile you use will come from the Hahnemühle Download Center for your specific printer, but in this case for the Epson P800 I had the following choices:

• German Etching paper uses HFA_EpsSC-P8000_MK_GermEtching.icc
• Photo Rag Matt Fine Art Smooth uses HFA_EpsSC-P800_MK_PhotoRag.icc
• William Turner paper uses HFA_EpsSC-P800_MK_WTurner.icc
  

and I made sure to use my desired rendering intent and checked black point compensation.

That's it - super simple and it works great, so this is an easy way to get great print results from your Epson SureColor printer.

Conclusion

Overall, I was extremely satisfied with these papers. You can see, and more importantly feel, the hundreds of years of experience Hahnemühle has in making truly special fine art paper.

These are papers for the print master who wishes to add the third dimension of a sensory experience to their prints and/or leverage papers that complement the texture of their image.

I highly recommend these Hahnemühle papers as the top premium papers on the market.

Where to Buy?

At B&H you can get these papers using these links:

• German Etching 310 gsm
• Photo Rag®  308 gsm 
• William Turner 310 gsm
• Sample Pack

At Amazon you use these:

• German Etching 310 gsm
• Photo Rag®  308 gsm 
• William Turner 310 gsm
• Sample Pack

Other articles you may enjoy

If you enjoyed this article, you may also enjoy these:

• Printing Series - tons of great info!
• Canon PRO-2000 Review
• Epson SureColor P800 Review
• Epson SureColor P600 Review
• ColorByte ImagePrint 10 Review
• Ron's Recommendations 

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ColorByte ImagePrint adds support for the Canon PRO-2000 & PRO-4000

ImagePrint 10.0.30 with support of multiple paper brands with more on the way

My original review of ColorByte ImagePrint 10 featured support for my Canon PRO-1000, but it wasn’t until this week that they are now officially supporting the large format PRO-2000 and PRO-4000 printers.

This is a big deal for those users who want to use paper from third parties like Epson where getting Canon ICC profiles' can be tough to come by. What’s more, ImagePrint has always been highly regarded as one of the best RIP’s in the business so if you have been wanting to get more tonal range out of your new PRO series printer then this is a big deal.

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Where to Buy?

Purchasing this product is a little unconventional because it requires a USB dongle to be plugged into your computer when you use this software. While you can purchase direct (please tell them you came from ronmartblog.com), I've arranged a special discount that I'd recommend you take advantage of instead. Here's details:

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If you have any questions or concerns about this discount program, please don’t hesitate to  contact me directly.

NOTE: This product does offer a 30 day money back guarantee as well as a free demo that will watermark your prints.

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• GUEST BLOG: AutoPrint – ImagePrint’s best kept secret? (aka Hot Folders)
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• Canon PRO-1000 Review
• Canon PRO-2000 Review
• Epson P800 Review
• Epson Legacy Papers Reviews & Video Tutorials with individual articles on Baryta, Etching, Platine and Fibre
• Printing Series
• QImage Review & Discount - an alternative layout product that I like but it leverages your OS drivers so I often export the image from QImage and print in ImagePrint

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REVIEW: Epson Legacy Baryta & Video Tutorial (Legacy Series 5 of 5)

Epson Legacy Baryta Paper

Epson Legacy Baryta paper is a cotton fiber substrate that uses photo black ink to create archival quality fine art prints. Here are a few important facts about this paper:

• 100% Alpha Cellulose
• Image Permanence: 200 years color / 400 years B&W (when used with Epson HD and Epson HDX Ink)
• 12 mil / 305 Mu caliper
• Acid and lignin free / pH buffered
• Minimal levels of Optical Brightening Agents (OBAs)
• Smooth surface / Satin finish

Unlike the other Legacy Papers, this is the one and only paper that does actually have OBA’s, but my sources at Epson tell me it only a trace amount. If this is an issue for you, then I’d strongly urge you to consider using the fabulous Legacy Platine instead.

Check out the Print Your Legacy landing page with videos here to see what some well respected photographers think of this and all of the Legacy papers.

For more on my thoughts about this paper, continue reading.

Geeky Comparison

If you aren’t a geek you might want to skip this section.

When comparing Baryta next to a variety of other Epson papers you’ll see that its color gamut is outstanding even against Exhibition Fiber Paper which was my previous favorite:

Epson Legacy Baryta vs Platine, Exhibition Fiber Paper (EFP) and Metallic
Click  for a larger view

If you compare the color gamut as a 2d chart (from ColorThink Pro) against Exhibition Fiber, Platine and Luster papers then you’ll see that Legacy Baryta is by far the best with Platine coming in a very close second followed by Exhibition Fiber (EFP) and Luster coming in last:

Epson Legacy Baryta vs Legacy Platine vs  Exhibition Fiber vs Luster Color Gamut
on a Epson SureColor P800

In The Hands Analysis

This paper is rigid enough not to flex when you hold the edge, but it is 1 mil less than Exhibition Fiber (EFP) yet its 2 mil thicker than Luster. Surprisingly, Platine is statistically thicker at 17 mil (vs 12 mil), but it doesn’t feel that way in your hands.

The texture is super smooth without the teeth that you feel on the non-print side of Platine. In fact, it feels almost identical to EFP, but under the light box it seems even smoother with less texture than EFP and significantly less than Platine. If you are the type who finds Luster to have too much texture for your taste on the print side, then you’ll be very happy with this paper. It’s smooth, but without having a cheap glossy look and feel.

The colors are simply jaw dropping, and better than any paper I’ve seen before it. The blacks are incredibly deep with its nearly 2.8 Dmax and the colors just pop off the page better than most displays can render the color. I was so thrilled when I saw the results that I wanted to stop everything and start reprinting all of my favorite prints over again on this paper – it’s that good!

Does that last statement seem familiar? Yeah, I said the same thing about Platine too – because they are both phenomenally good. For images where I want a little texture – because the image content has texture, I’d probably choose Platine as my first choice. For images where I want the smoothest paper possible that isn’t going to gather light from its texture, then I’d probably use Legacy Baryta.

I wasn’t able to try rolls with this paper, but I suspect it would perform about the same as EFP in roll format so I’d probably choose Platine over Baryta for jobs that required rolls over sheets (i.e., panos, 16x24”, etc…).

Real World Print Analysis

Epson V850 scan of Legacy Baryta on a Mac (16-bit)
(Click for Original Mac Version above or Windows Version Here)

The photo below is a scan of a print made using this paper, but even the scan is so vivid that it looks like the original photo (just like Platine did too)! The following photo was used by permission of National Geographic photographer, Jim Richardson and the colors and detail in the scarf just leap off the print in an almost 3D-like experience for the viewer:

Actual Epson V850 Scan of a Print from SureColor P9000 on Legacy Baryta

The scan simply can’t do it justice as too much of the real world experience is lost (and I’ve not altered the scan in any way). Here’s another one by me which is available as a full resolution 24MB TIFF scan, which again doesn’t do it justice because the blacks are so much deeper in real life:

Full Resolution Tiff V850 Scan of a SureColor P800 Legacy Baryta Print
using Epson Advanced Black & White Mode

On a scale of 1 (worse) to 10 (the best I’ve ever seen), I’d give it a 9.9 whereas I’d give the Exhibition Fiber Signature Worthy papers a 9.4. It’s outstanding and extremely pleasing to the eye with everything I love about EFP, but only better.

Compared to Other Favorites

Scan of a color print from a Canon PRO-1 on Canon Pro Platinum paper
Original image was sepia, so this is a faithful rendition vs the ABW versions

I’m a big fan of Ilford GALERIE Prestige Gold Fibre Silk Paper (also a Baryta) and when using my PRO-1 printer, Canon Pro Platinum (more info) and Canon Fine Art Photo Rag are my go to papers on my Canon printers. All of these papers are excellent, but Ilford Gold is a bit too warm for my taste, the Pro Platinum has a bit more of a traditional glossy sheen, and the Photo Rag suffers the same thick and stiff challenges that encourage scuffing that EFP suffers from.

When comparing the papers together, and after a lot of scrutiny, I found myself favoring the Epson Legacy Baryta the most – especially when printing color using a good ICC profile.

Tutorial Video

This video teaches you how to print on this paper in both Photoshop CC 2015 and Lightroom CC 2015 on Windows 10 using both color ICC profiles as well as Advanced Black & White mode. See my first two Legacy paper reviews for ones that were done on OS X El Capitan:

If you’d like visual instructions, including Advanced Black & White, then be sure to check out the visual tutorial in the Epson Legacy Papers Reviews & Tutorials video which covers both Windows and Mac.

The printer paper profile you use will be in the format <printer> LegacyBaryta_PK_<version>.icc (or sometimes icm) so for the Epson SureColor P800 you’d choose SC-P800_Series LegacyBaryta_PK_v1.icc

Conclusion

I’ve saved the best for last, because this really is the best of the Legacy papers and the best paper I’ve ever personally printed on. If there’s a better paper out there, I’d like to try it, because my eyes haven’t seen anything that outperforms this paper.

For this and the Platine reviews, I almost didn’t even include the scanned images because I feared they might give people a false impression of the quality. Simply put, my scanner can’t capture the detail and fidelity that you experience in real life with either of these papers, even when viewing the scans on my NEC PA322UHD 4k display! To truly understand how good they are you you have to see it for real life, so your best bet is to find a friend who has it or pick up the Legacy sample pack or get free print samples here and see for yourself!

I highly recommend this paper as the best paper I’ve ever put through any of my Epson printers, and thanks to a great ICC paper profile – you should be able to get phenomenal results too!

Yes, even with legacy printers like the 3880 (profiles link). 

Where to order

Click here to learn more or order at Adorama or order at B&H here.

Just want to try it out first? Try picking up the Legacy sample pack (also at Adorama) that I used for testing!

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• Epson Legacy Papers Reviews & Tutorials – Intro article that links to all of the Legacy Series paper reviews
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• REVIEW: Epson Legacy Fibre & Video Tutorial (Legacy Series 2 of 5)
• REVIEW: Epson Legacy Etching & Video Tutorial (Legacy Series 3 of 5)
• Printing Series – Tons of resources on printing and print related tech
• Epson SureColor P600 Review
• Epson SureColor P800 Review
• Epson Exhibition Canvas Natural Gloss Review
• Epson Hot & Cold Press Papers
• How To: Using Epson’s Advanced B&W Photo (ABW) printing feature
• Getting great 4x6 prints without any hassle
• Choosing The Right Display Calibration Device
• NEC PA242W Monitor Review (PA241W & PA271W Review)
• NEC PA302W Monitor Review (PA301W Review)
• NEC PA322UHD 4k for Pro Photo & Video Editing
• Ron’s Recommendations

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