Digital BW, The Print

well, I hit a snag with museo.....it just has no blacks. looks great on lighter stuff though. 
Went thru a big to-do trying to get the blacks to come thru the shadows (black hair on 
very dark background) and was a not-gonna-happen. I found some ilford smooth fine art 
rag paper, which is not smooth, but the image worked well, so I think Museo is on my C 
list. .....I noticed that museo has no opacity spec, but the ilford smooth fine art rag says 
opacity 96%. I have some ilford matte two sided paper that say it has an opacity rating of 
90% which looks exactly like museo in the dark areas. Does that number actually mean 
anything that you can rely on when buying papers with your fingers crossed? Am I correct 
in assuming then that there is big diference between an Opacity of 90%, and 
96%?......Thanks as usual








--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "lipshurt2002" <lipshurt@m...> 
wrote:
> Hello. First, thanks to the people who took and interest in my UT2/glossy episode.
> I have gotten my Ut2 ink dialed in, which took only about 20 strips (six or seven per 
page) 
> and maybe 12 4x6 prints. Now I have 5 shades from cool to warm that all look great, on 
> all my papers. (with spay hopefully fixing the bronzing on pearl yada yada...) I have 
made 
> some really nice prints on Museo paper by Crane. (at least to my untrained eye)...On this 
> group, this paper is never mentioned. My medium warm UT2 setting looks pretty 
awesome 
> on this to me. I finally 
> have a print that has the right tone I want and the front to back 3D depth that I was 
> looking for. My question is, how does this paper compare to lets say Velvet fine art? I 
> have some Permajet Museum parchment which I liked the best of the Permajet Test 
> packet, but the museo is better to me. At my camera shop, North county camera in the 
san 
> diego area, you have to buy 
> before you see the papers. they have VFA, and all the Permajet, Epson, ilford, lumijet 
and 
> some others, but none of the ones that clayton jones likes. If most people think that 
> museo is better than VFA, I wont get VFA. Anyone have any experience with these? 
thanks 
> in advance. I am gonna have some fun this week re-printing my favorite prints!