Digital BW, The Print

Keith, I'm still waiting for the 2.0 D max on watercolor papers.  Seems
as if I saw, many years ago, an incredible black by an early lyson
inkset.  But it had metamerism, and faded quickly.

I am happy with paul's curves, VM inks, etc., on a paper like wells
river, except the flaking is terrible.  Why in the world hasn't this
been corrected by now by the paper manufacturers?  I now rub down every
paper before printing with an Ilford negative cleaning cloth. Fairly
hard, too. It doesn't seem to affect the looks of the paper at all, and
it sure helps with flaking! The printing industry sure doesn't have this
problem, and they print on all kinds of papers.  I've never seen flaking
in a magazine, or in anything else printed on a real printing press.

Jerry



"Editor P.O.V. Image Service" wrote:
> 
> Jerry Olson wrote:
> 
> >The small gamut inks are good, you will get much better prints than
> >you've been getting with the oem inks.
> >
> >Just keep reading on this list. Everything you'll ever want to know will
> >be and has been discussed here.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> And Jerry has tried most of them!
> 
> he may seem a bit anal about the highest possible dMax, but people like
> Jerry expand the envelope by pushing it.. Then the rest of us can join
> them and actually use these tools, as they do, to create art..
> --
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
> "Just some guy," and founder of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer
> User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo
> Publications), at:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSONx7x_Printers/
> 
> "For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together
> guys"
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