Digital BW, The Print

At 12:30 AM 2/12/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
>Finally, I asked him to pick which of the pairs he liked best. He had
>problems making the decision but finally picked the BO print of each
>of the four pairs.

Did you ask him afterwards if he could see the dots?

As I said, in my experiments the people who liked the
B-O prints were mainly ones who couldn't see the dots.

If he couldn't see them, obviously they wouldn't bother him,
and in most other respects B-O would be superior so of
course they would be preferable.   The catch is that lots of
people CAN see the dots.

It's a bit like metamerism - it doesn't bother people who are
colorblind  but I can't assume anyone I give a print to is colorblind.

I absolutely agree that from a sufficient distance B-O prints
look great - but I look at darkroom prints from all sorts of
distances so I want to be able to look at inkjet prints that
same way.

I like your experiment but I would have included a test
for whether the subject could SEE the dots, like I do
in my experiments on this.