Digital BW, The Print

Jerry Olson wrote:

 
> Also Photo matte is now about the same price as epson's archival matte.
> There is no logo on the back, it is whiter than epson, and thicker than
> epson. Great blacks too, if you use paul roark's curves but substitute
> the backlight film setting for heavyweight matte.

Jerry;

I saw you Bicklight film setting tip and decided to give it a try. I
took a portrait image file that I had recently made a nice print of
using VM on an 1160 <warm neutral curve> on  LPM using the "matte paper
-heavyweight setting"

Using the Backlight film setting... the printer sure did lay down a good
black but the mid tones where all solarized and the highlights where all
blown out. I thought something had gone terribly wrong with my printer!
I then switched the Epson driver setting to "Matte paper- heavyweight"
my usual setting for LPM, and out came a perfect print!

Strange....

-Jeff