Digital BW, The Print

Glossy Paper Photo Weight

Robert


On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 01:50 PM, Tim Atherton wrote:

> I remember a while back, someone saying that the Professional Glossy  
> Paper
> which is only available in 13x19 is the exact same paper as one that  
> only
> comes in rolls (I think only 24" and 38") which has a different name...
> anyone remember?
>
> On a different note, I recently got my 2200 and have been playing with  
> the
> greyscale balancer. I haven't even tried matte papers yet, but I  
> happened to
> have a box of letter sized Ilford Smooth Gloss. This seems to have  
> come out
> very nicely indeed.
>
> While it does seem to metamerise slightly (I don't have any florescent  
> light
> handy, so just going from daylight to tungsten) it remains neutral
> throughout the changes. Indeed, I carried a silver print of the same  
> image
> along side it, and the changes were no more objectionable than I could  
> see
> on that print.
>
> Also, it doesn't really "bronze" (and certainly much less than the  
> various
> Epson glossy and semi-gloss papers) it's more that it "silvers" - which
> again is much less objectionable. This is by far the closest to a  
> silver B&W
> print (albeit RC) I have got from any Epson printer, including many
> different formulations of MIS Quads...
>
> tim
>
>
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