Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul,

I'm curious just what you've got here.  Is it that this one specific
paper Smooth Pearl is somehow compatible with Eboni but
others aren't?    Or are you just not using the Eboni ink by making
the 100% spot just 100% R and G and 0% B -- i.e. the dark warm
gray and dark cool gray inks are enough to give a great dMax.

Roy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> OK, this is a little half-baked, but the bottom line is that I've hit a dmax
> of 2.28 on Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl - with Eboni.  There is not
> significant dusting or rub-off.
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> 
> The secret is that the UT2 (and perhaps UT1) inks use a base that is the
> glossy binder.  It's not an acrylic coating on the particle.  So, I don't
> let Eboni sit there by itself - or barely at all.  So, to the extent there
> is Eboni there, it is held by the base that carried the other inks into that
> spot.  The best dmax so far is with the yellow position sepia toner pulled
> out entirely at the 100% spot.  
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>  
> 
> Whether I can write full curves for this is untested.
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> 
> So, there is more to do here before declaring any kind of victory, but we
> may not need to mess with switching blacks any more.  Now that would be
> nice.
> 
>  
> 
> Paul
> 
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