Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
>...  The pearl and semi-gloss surfaces look excellent, at least when 
> sprayed with something like Lyson Print Guard, but the high gloss 
> surfaces do still look less than perfect to me.

Agreed. I immediately fell in love with the Ilford SP paper after 
printing on it with the MIS Ultratone FS inkset for the first time. 
But for some reason all other micro-ceramic type papers don't fare 
too well except the inkjetart gloss lite version. At least this is my 
experience with the 1160 printer. My C80 printer gives good results 
for all these papers by mixing color ink with black at a slightly 
reduced dmax but still good. 

I've just purchased the Hawkmountain Merlin matte paper to try with 
the MIS Eboni Ultratone FS/FSN inkset. Have you had any experience 
with this combination? If this new paper gives me an acceptable dmax 
I might forget about coating altogether except for a few special 
enlargements.

--nick