Digital BW, The Print

Although you'll hear it from experienced users "Cotton papers" is a red 
herring. All the famously beautiful silver-gelatin photographic papers are 
100% wood pulp. There may be more beautiful papers than EEM, but I believe 
it's more because of their "hand" and feel than because of the way ink lays 
on their surface. Once you've matted a print on EEM, it looks about as 
beautiful as you could wish.

At 04:34 PM 4/5/2004, Clayton Jones wrote:
>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
>
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