Digital BW, The Print

Has any paper manufacturer ever admitted there is a flaking problem with
their coated papers?  Seems like that issue has been along for so long,
surely some of them would address it.

Jerry









Truman Prevatt wrote:
> 
> I recall when I had a very active wet dark room, several different types
> of paper, several different chemicals, different toners, etc. Then there
> were all the tools for dodging and burning. To get a good print from a
> virigin negative it took at least 10 sheets of paper and sometimes two
> or 3 sessons.
> 
> I'm not sure there was anything "simple-off-the-shelf" about it.
> 
> I settled on a 1280 vs. 2200 since a) I don't do much color and if I
> want to it will be for snapshots so I'll just get a lowcost letter size
> printer for that. It also seems that printing B&W with color inks is a
> mindfield of potential problems and I selected a good printer with good
> B&W support with black and white inks.
> 
> I started out with the VM since I do like the ability to be able to
> "tone" my prints to whatever warmth or coolness that goes best with the
> image. There was a bit of a learning curve but I must say, using
> software tools on scanned 4x5 images to produce a final print is much
> easier and effective than all the wet darkroom techniques.
>