Digital BW, The Print

Tom,

>...[EEM] lacks the snap of the old [EAM] paper.  ...
>I have been using Generations black, and have used
>Epson and MIS dye blacks.  But the new paper
>affects all of them. ...

>Paul, if I switch to the VM sepia inkset, can I cool the color
>down to the MW curve of the standard VM set (which I am using now)?
>In other words, do the color of the 2 sets overlap?

Yes, the vm-s ranges from neutral to sepia -- just by coincidence, the tones
I use.

> Would I only need to change the M and PM inks in the hextone set?

No, the vm-s is a totally different inkset except for the black.  The gray
inks in the vm-s are the FS-N inks.  They are a hair cool and do not warm up
on EEM/EAM the way the standard vm inks do.

>...[RC prints] had an interesting surface, I called it an Epson
>Daguerreotype!

There can be some weird effects with RC papers.  It turns out that some of
these are due to the base the pigments are suspended in.  The new base MIS
uses solves much of the bronzing and other problems I was running into with
some of the older materials.

>... when the print gets wavy under
>the glass due to humidity at outdoor shows, you really see it.
>The mat paper doesn't show it at all. ...

Yes, the glossier the surface, the more waviness is going to show up.  I
don't like glass, but matte under glass is the standard, and it has numerous
advantages.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com