Digital BW, The Print

I saw some of Paul's test strips yesterday with the Ilford Smooth gloss  
(before the finger rub downs :-)) and they were quite impressive...very  
little bronzing with the Ultratones.  In comparison I'm getting much  
more bronzing with the 2200 OEM.PK inks on the Ilford Smooth  
Pearl...however, most of that goes away with a light coat of Krylon  
spray.  The Smooth Gloss/Ultratone combo looked almost good enough to  
go without a spray coat.  Would be interested to hear about the  
Pictorico papers with the Ultratones as well.

Robert


On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 11:49 PM, Paul Roark wrote:

> I'm not sure RC paper have made the grade yet, but I like the surface  
> and
> price of the Ilford Smooth gloss and pearl papers.  They do seem to  
> have a
> few defects with Ultra Tone inks, however.
>
> First, there does seem to be a little "dusting" in the deep shadows.   
> I was
> curious if this was the paper or the UT pigs.  So, I mixed a UT inkset  
> with
> Epson UC coated pigs.  When used with Epson Photo K in the black cart,  
> the
> dusting completely disappeared.
>
> The 100% black still has a different look, but it is much closer.  All  
> thing
> considered, the image looked excellent.
>
> I left the UT toner as is, and there does not seem to be enough  
> pigment in
> that to make a difference.  I'm suspicious that the light gray is also  
> so
> weak that it could remain the stock MIS UT light gray.  So, I'll mix a  
> batch
> with just a cyan (quad) position ink the Epson mix and see if that  
> gets rid
> of the dusting.  That would be easy for us or MIS to mix if it cures  
> the
> dusting problems -- with the Epson Photo K.
>
> I also noticed that this paper (perhaps like all RC papers) shows
> fingerprints badly on the 100% black spot.  Interestingly, however, the
> fingerprints even look deeper black.  So, I decided to rub my finger  
> across
> my face to get it extra oily.  Then I rubbed it on the 100% patch.   
> The dmax
> leapt from about 2.05 to 2.6.  Whoa.
>
> I did the same thing to an old Ilford Smooth Glossy test strip where  
> the
> black looked a bit veiled, even though it read about 1.8.  Again, the  
> dmax
> leapt to 2.6, and the veiling disappeared.  The depth of black was just
> amazing.
>
> I'm not sure what is going on here, but it makes me wonder if some easy
> surface treatment could give spectacular results.  Perhaps there is a
> residue on the surface that can easily be cleaned off with a cloth  
> lightly
> dampened with ... ?? oil??
>
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com
>
>
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