Digital BW, The Print

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From: <shilesh.jani@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:51 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: How to get bright white with quadtone ink set.


> You cannot get a print any brighter than the paper - period.  The
> brightest paper I have encountered is Eclipse Satine Bright White.
> It is 100% cotton rag (so it has good "archival" properties).  You
> can get the paper at inkjetgoodies.com.  But you may want to hurry,
> because the supplies are limited.  Other bright white papers are Red
> River Premium Matte and Legion Photo Matte.  But both of these papers
> are wood derived (acid free, but not "archival").  All of these
> papers print very well with MIS VM inks; you will have to tweak the
> curves for each paper.

You are right as long as there are only CcMmYKkkkOGB inks used in inkjets.
There was a time when there were only CMYK inks in inkjets, that has already
changed otherwise there wouldn't be a list like this.

It would be nice to have a hexatone set with a white ink at the lightest
channel. I'm reproducing a collage with some torn white (optical brightener)
magazine paper glued to a more yellow paper. The paper that I print on isn't
white enough to represent the magazine paper, if it would be white enough
I'm sure there would be optical brightener in it and that would yellow in
time. So a white ink would be handy. Or an ink with only optical brightener
in it and accept the fact that it will not last!

Clair obscur on a grey paper would be even nicer but it is unlikely that an
inkjet ink will ever have the necessary opaque white quality.

Ernst