Digital BW, The Print

On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 11:11 PM, Richard Sintchak wrote:

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> Thursday, March 11, 2004, 7:31:40 PM, you wrote:
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> s> I was thinking of trying Moab Entrada Natural for BO printing on an
> s> Epson 2200 (using Clayton Jones BO workflow). Any thoughts on this
> s> paper? There are so many papers out there (and opinions), I'll go
> s> broke trying each one. So I come to the experts.
> s> Thanks,
> s> Steve
>
> I've seen some postings where others say the Entrada is good for B&W
> printing.  I personally found too much "mottling" in the deep blacks
> when printing on this paper with my 1160 with MIS FS-N inks and with
> my 2200 doing BO printing with Eboni black.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Richard            


Hello,

I'm no expert, but I can give you my experience, FWIW.  I like the look 
and feel of this paper, enough that I have been working on it almost 
exclusively in recent months.  I have not printed much B&W on it, but 
did recently, using ImagePrint on a 7600 with UCs.   I don't know how 
the prints would compare with ones made by people working more 
critically in B&W, but the prints looked good to me. ImagePrint is 
excellent for printing B&W.   In color, however, I have found this 
paper to be more difficult to profile than other papers- usually in 
small areas such as red cast and the reds themselves.  Otherwise the 
images look great, and I'm sure that I'll wind up with profiles that 
nail things down, just haven't had the time to sort it all out yet.  
But generally these papers- and I've used both the whitened and the 
natural- look and feel very good, and I'd say are well worth a try, 
even given the caviat that others may find the same quirkiness when 
they try to profile them as I have.

James Irelan
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