Digital BW, The Print

"tboleyyh" <tyler@...> wrote:
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> ... the non-brightened Alise ...would have been the go to version for some inksets that benifit from a colder coating reaction.

It was not very impressive with the dilute Eboni inksets.

> Oddly, the brightened version Epson hot and cold press seem to be doing pretty well in terms of brightener burn off.

Yes, because they are, in effect, using a counter-shift strategy.  Look at how much the natural version bleaches.  A Lab B move from 3.6 to 1.3 in 30 Mlux-Hrs.  Look at Ernst's spectral response of that paper -- not  a normal natural paper response curve.  It almost looks like they've added some yellow dye.

At page 3 of http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/1100-Eb4.pdf I graphed the Lab B values for the Hot Press N and W, and included a version of the N that had  been in the sun for a while.  I think they'll all end up looking very much like Premier  Art smooth 325 -- a very fine paper  that is what I specified for the museum project I did.


>... these papers are not rebranded Alise ...


The graphs noted above make the Epson paper  look much like  the Premier Art 325.  I have no inside info as to actual source, however. 

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com