Digital BW, The Print

I'm using their "Generations ProPhoto Lustre" microporous coated paper
with my own custom hex-black inkest, and so far, I'm excited about the
results. My inks: black is Gen4, grays are dilutions of Gen3 tinted warm
& cold with Gen4 CMY. I'm putting down a lot of ink, and still having no
problem with bronzing.

Compared to the best matte papers (e.g., photo rag, museo):

Drawbacks: slow drying, fragile surface. feels like plastic 

Strengths: beautiful image with long, rich gray scale and awesome Dmax
(>2.5). These prints look, (but don't feel) like classic air-dried
fiber-based glossy silver-gelatin prints.

My tentative bottom line: looks like a win. 

Richard Wolfson
www.rwolfson.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Flashner [mailto:tflash@...] 
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:27 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson Premium Glossy with 
> Quadtones? -apotential glossy option for MIS pigmented inks
> 
> 
> on 4/17/02 11:13 AM, Editor P.O.V. Image Service wrote:
> 
> > I have been told, by knowledgeable parties (not mediastreet 
> employees
> > either) that the new mediastreet glossy and semigloss media 
>  work fine 
> > with pigmented inks (they are meant fro the Generations inks)..  My 
> > source indicated they will even work with the MIS VM set...
> 
> You mean it's not the inks it's the paper? Where have I heard 
> that before?... ;-)
>