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Re: [Digital BW] 2 questions, re BO and OPM

2003-10-26 by Phil Rose

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. 
DeRocco" <pderocco@i...> wrote:
> > From: Antara Scales [mailto:antaras@y...]
> >
> >  (1) I just printed with BO on 2200, making sure R=0 for Black
> > and it still came out gray. I guess this is a question for 
Clayton.
> > How do you get deep blacks?
> 
> Stay away from matte papers.

 I disagree that matte paper, per se, could be blamed for 
producing a "gray" Dmax. With matte papers such as EEM and 
HWM there should be no trouble obtaining Dmax of around 1.65, 
which surely ain't gray (IMHO).

Phil

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