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Re: [Digital BW] Let's simplify nomenclature

2005-03-11 by guy washburn

Then for clarity let's stop using the generic terms we
can't agree on and just use paper brand and name.
Because saying you got a particular result on a semi-
anything or an RC something else is meaningless.

Guy
--- Steve Kale <stevekale@...> wrote:
> I don't think we can agree about the ends - they
> will forever change.
> Perfect gloss doesn't exist.  What is perfect matte?
>  We have a continuum
> that at one ever shifting point currently requires a
> cross over from fibrous
> paper (eg cotton) to resin coated paper.  At best we
> can say it is "semi" ie
> not right at either end but more towards the middle
> and more to one end than
> the other...semi-matte or semi-gloss.  These are not
> scientific definitions
> but rather passionate adjectives.
> 
> 
> > From: guy washburn <guido02474@...>
> > Reply-To:
> <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:28:05 -0800 (PST)
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Let's simplify
> nomenclature
> > 
> > 
> > Steve,
> > 
> > It's the slippery nature of semi-* that calls out
> for
> > a list standard listing of papers and where the
> fit on
> > the gloss-matte continuum. I think we all agree
> about
> > the ends but the middle is where the trouble
> starts.
> > 
> > Guy
> 
> 
> 


		
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