Digital BW, The Print

Define glossy?  Aren't we lumping all non-matte paper into the same basket
in this conversation?  There is significant variance in finish in the RC
paper (call it PK ink) basket.  Even a glop-coated image on Ilford Smooth
Pearl (a rather glossy semi-matte paper in comparison to, say, Epson Luster)
is not a "glossy" print in the sense that you imply below.


> From: Djon <westsidemaurice@...>
 
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> Most art-oriented photographers have always preferred air-dried fiber
> based paper....glossy has always been used for mass-produced press
> kits, the cheap stuff.
> 
> No portrait or wedding photographer delivers his good work on glossy
> paper, but some of the bargain wedding photographers deliver their
> proofs as glossies from minilabs, unconcerned about quality.
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> Industrial photographers deliver glossy because old fashioned
> lithographers preferred it and because of generations of habit.
> 
> The public identifies glossy as cheaper, inferior, because glossy is
> correctly associated with poor or "adequate" quality, mass production.
> They don't care about Dmax.
> 
> Surely this isn't new information, or debatable?
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