Digital BW, The Print

Just a quick note to say that while Eclipse apparently (I haven't seen one)
gives good blacks with the MIS VM ink set it does not give good blacks with
Piezo.  My comments about Eclipse with piezo are for coated prints
only...where it has really nice blacks and gives the most neutral piezo
print I have ever seen...it is really, really nice.  What's nicest is with
my coating, the Eclipse print doesn't look plastic.  It seems that the
coating melds with the paper...but you get the black enhancement.  In
contrast the same coating on Museo (a paper with a similar texture) tends to
sit on top...you get more gloss...which some may like.

I have been lobbying Jon to try to get him to profile Eclipse because I
think that's where the problems are with the uncoated black dmax.  I did an
experiment the other night.  I printed a piezo flush image and then double
printed the flush on half the image.  I don't have a densitometer and
Antonis is away...but I'd say that the double printed piezo black patch on
Eclipse is the most neutral and strongest black I've ever seen in a
piezo/paper combination.  Most papers when you double print the black
saturates...but with Eclipse the paper didn't saturate until I triple
printed.  I think when Jon profiles this paper we will have a real winner.
For those that want more texture the Eclipse satine has it with the same
paper coating.

Robert

PS  Photoinkjet.com didn't pay me to say this...I just really like the
paper.