Digital BW, The Print

At 03:41 PM 4/7/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Alan,
>
>You wrote:
>
>>Bad news.  I have a MIS-FS print on EAM that has been sitting under a
>>skylight with intermittent full sun for about three months. The ink has
>>turned very brown. The good news is it hasn't faded, the paper still looks
>>like new paper and I don't need to look for VanDyke brown inks now.
>
>The inks all seem to warm up.  However, some warm more that others.  And
>some papers are better than others.
>
>EAM, while cheap, is among the best papers in my fade and warming tests with
>pigmented inks.
>
>The MIS blacks are not all the same.  With respect to warming, fading and
>depth of black, the MIS FS and VM blacks are the best.  They are the same.
>Double density and archival (as in the MIS color inkset) blacks are
>different and do not do as well on my tests.  But they are fine inks.
>
>Generations enhanced K warms substantially more and faster, being about 25%
>dye.
>
>Try the FS-N inkset.  It should warm noticeably less.
>
>Paul
>http://www.PaulRoark.com
>
>

Paul,

Thanks for the reply. I just ordered some Generations black cuz someone said
it didn't turn as brown!  The print that turned brown could have been a
fluke - Im doing more tests. My web page shot of it is quite true to life.
I like the EAM papers for my work because of the smooth finish and as far as
I'm concered the blacks are fine for most images. I print relatively small.  
The way I see it the increased range of low values available more than makes
up for any loss of blackness at the zero end.  It just keeps going and going. 

  BTW I fooled around with doing double hit blacks by shoving Threshold as
far west as needed and printing that under the main image. A varnish coat -
if ever available - would work the same way.

AZ

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