Digital BW, The Print

Thanks!

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Walker Blackwell <
lists@g...> wrote:
> hold the paper flat and look across the surface as if it were a 
> landscape with a light source in the background. One side will look 
> like it has a skim of chalk over it and will have slight cellulose 
> "clumping" of emulsion and the other side will reflect more glare and 
> will have a more textured look. The chalky side is the side with the 
> coating.  The Fibra paper is troublesome.
> 
> 
> take care, walker
> 
> 
> On Apr 20, 2005, at 12:41 PM, chipcarterdc wrote:
> 
> >
> >  I'm using Photo Smooth Cotton, Soft Texture and Cold Press Art.  Does
> >  anyone have a good way of figuring out the printable side on these
> >  papers, other than the "lick your fingers and touch the paper" test? 
> >  (which is what I've been doing and getting little smudges on the
> >  paper).  For example, I know that all Epson papers are packaged with
> >  the printable side facing up when you open the package from the back
> >  (in other words, the printable side is the side that faces the back of
> >  the package).  Anyone know how Innova papers are packaged with 
regard
> >  to the printable side?
> >
> >  (I know that, in theory, the printable side of any paper is the whiter
> >  side, but that doesn't help me because (a) some of these papers are
> >  warm and therefore the non-printable side and the printable side are
> >  equally "white" and (b) under tungsten light, it's pretty hard to tell
> >  which side is whiter anyway).
> >
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