Digital BW, The Print

Sam,

I gave up on Museo.  I just get too much blotchiness, and the blacks are
weak.  I think for the ultimate in long term storage, where a customer
insists on an acid-free, cotton paper, Eclipse Satine is a better way to go.
I'll probably start testing and profiling the "soft white" that lacks the
optical brighteners for my museum, archival copying work.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com


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  -----Original Message-----
  From: Sam A. McCandless [mailto:samcc@...]
  Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:19 AM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Somerset Velvet...am I missing something here?


  >[snip] I'd recommend sticking with the coated papers.  I mostly use
  >EAM.  Other
  >papers I'd recommend are the Hahnemuhle papers (great blacks -- the only
  >ones I've tested that are better than EAM -- by about 2%) and Brightcube
  >Eclipse Satine (acid free and the only coated paper I've fade tested that
is
  >a hair better than EAM).
  >
  >Paul
  >http://www.PaulRoark.com

  But not Crane's Museo? I thought it was a good, if expensive,
  companion for EAM and one which is both acid-free and free of optical
  brightners? It also seems to me a nice thickness and weight for the
  printers without a straight-through paper path.

  Sam McCandless             samcc@...


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