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Re: [Digital BW] DMax and Glossy Prints - Are We Kidding Ourselves?

2005-03-10 by Douglas Meeuwsen

I am a musiocian, and pretty often am asked to do some shots for bands, 
or singers, etc, or weddings once in a while. The people I know really 
like the look and feel of a glossy BW print a lot better. That is 
probably because they are made to be handled, pulled from envelopes, 
passed around from person to person. If it is a matte print someone 
invariably will get a sour look on their face and make a comment about 
this cheap promo package duped at kinkos on a Xerox machine. Any good 
band is going to have a package with "real" BW photgraphs. Not dry 
paper Xerox looking Plain paper (" i didn't know kinkos had paper this 
thick".... is another old stand-by comment)
Now If the print is under glass, nobody ever notices that it is matte 
or rag. I think they actually assume it is a glossy print under there, 
looking great.
Now I really do think that the UT2 with glop is a better looking print 
with no spray than without glop and with spray. The regular people that 
I have shown them to, see it that way about 10 to 1, but I have not 
done a survey, other than to pay attention to the comments they 
make.........I dont think anyone is kidding themselves though. maybe 
your prints on pictorico glossy dont have the pop that kirkland 
has?....DM

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