Digital BW, The Print

On 03/30/2013 03:07 AM, Michael wrote:
> I've been printing with ABW and using HPN and love it; nevertheless,
> I've also been experimenting with RR AFA. I like that AFA comes in so
> many sizes (particularly 11x14) and the price can't be beat. However, no
> matter what I do, I cannot get it to give me comparable blacks and some
> other elusive quality that seems to make the images come to life like
> the HPN. I know this has been talked about previously (I've read all the
> AFA msgs. going back 7 yrs.)and am wondering if anyone has found the
> secret mix of ABW settings or ? to move this RR paper closer to HPN? (I
> hate the idea of buying larger sheets of HPN and cutting down to the
> 11x14 size I want.)

The inkjet coating quality of the Aurora is just not on the level of HPN.

Hahnem\ufffdhle uses a triple coating layer for the Photorag qualities. 
Coating done by Sihl. On cheaper qualities you will see less coating 
steps etc.

The few papers that resemble HPN are one from Sihl and another one from 
Papergraphics. I do not expect their pricing to be lower.


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