Digital BW, The Print

Hello Steve,

>I am getting up and running with the BO printing technique as 
>described by Clayton Jones. Anyway, I am printing on Epson EEM 
>paper.  The paper is great and I am happy with the prints.  
>Should I make my final wall hanging prints on PhotoRag paper?  

For permanance reasons the final prints should be on some kind of 100%
cotton paper.  The papers I use with BO and Eboni ink, in order of
warm to cool, are

Epson Velvet fine Art  - very warm
H. Photo Rag           - moderate warm
Hawk Mtn Merlin Smooth - slightly warm
Hawk Mtn Condor BW     - neutral, looks really black

These are all very beautiful papers.  I recommend getting a pkg of
each and try them (Hawk Mtn also has some non-OBA papers coming out
soon which I am eager to try.  After I test them I'll be adding to my
web site an article about papers for BO printing).


>Will they look better, or is it just a matter of permanence.  

Prints on good cotton papers have a richness and depth beyond what you
will see on EEM.  Others might use different words to describe the
difference, but it's there.  In addition, with the selection of papers
listed above we have a choice of four tones, from neutral to warm.  


>If I did buy some photorag paper, do they come with profiles 
>for the epson 2200 printer?

For BO printing they aren't needed.  


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm