Digital BW, The Print

I would recommend to anyone poking around with fine art digital black and white printing at whatever level to purchase one of Paul Roark’s prints. You will get a masterpiece example of what can be achieved, a benchmark by which you can judge your own printing capabilities.  (Of course it would also be a nice way of repaying Paul in some tiny way for the immense amount of work he has done for all interested in B&W printing.) One of his prints has pride of place above our fireplace.  On matt paper, behind glass, it utterly smashes a David Brookover print on some sort of semi-gloss for dMax, detail and lack of bronzing.  I love David’s image (a wedding gift) but just wish I could get printed properly by someone like Paul. 


> On 16 Jul 2018, at 18:50, Paul Roark roark.paul@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> That Premier Art Fine Art Smooth 205 was, I believe, the paper Epson re-branded as their most archival paper.  I forget the name they used..  One interesting aspect of the deal was that Epson got the exterior of the very large rolls, and Premier Art got the interiors.  This gave the Premier Art brand more curl than the Epson label product.  After this, Epson also appears to have learned that the contracts with Premier Art had to include clauses that stopped Premier Art from disclosing this type of information.
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> Paul W.. is right that I preferred the 325 gsm version of this paper.   One thing that I found curious, however, is that the thinner version, supposedly with the same coating, often seemed to produce a better dmax.  I also think I saw this with H. Photo Rag in comparing their 188 gsm to their thicker one.
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> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 3:06 PM paulmwhiting@... <mailto:paulmwhiting@yahoo.com> [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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> Thanks all... I did mention I use Red River paper but didn't say what kind. It's Aurora Art Natural 2S. That's for a family archive project because it comes in convenient 5x7 and 4x6 sizes. But for art projects I've been using Premier Art FineArt Smooth, 205 gsm in 8 1/2 x 11 and 13 x 19, this paper had high marks from Paul early on although he uses a heavier version. RR paper is a bit easier to find, an informative newsletter and a library of FAQ's.
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> Paul W.
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> www.paulwhitingphotography.com <http://www.paulwhitingphotography.com/>
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