Digital BW, The Print

yes, printshield does tone down the gloss of kirkland quite a bit, but 
it does not really increase the gloss of semi-matte. Semi-matte has 
only a little bit of texture. Semi-gloss has the same amount of texture 
as luster if you ask me, it's just a little diferent kind of texture. 
The semi-matte surface is pretty nice, and I think it is closer to 
gloss than luster.   Printshield on kirkland gets it pretty close to 
semimatte, and the image quality is maybe a tad better with kirkland. 
The semimatte is kind of picky, and you may need to use 2880, or a 
higher resolution than you need with kirkland....Keep in mind that I 
use a 1280 for BW........ by the way, I also use the c86 for color, and 
have found that with the mac driver, only two papers give me a 
bulletproof colormatch. Those are EEM, and the cheap "glossy photo 
paper" niether of which are archival, but that is ok for me because i 
just print snaps in color, or if I do a 8x10 in color, I am fine with 
reprinting it in the future. The c86 in color has a kind of nice vibe 
on these papers, but I am sure the better printers are way better. 
Surprisingly nice color with these two papers though. All the other 
papers have a blue color cast with my mac/epson driver, even the 
durabrite glossy paper made only for this inkset has the blue cast.
On May 13, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Peter De Smidt wrote:

>  Sharpness isn't the problem, but
>  rather the surface of the paper.  Kirkland is too glossy. I try some
>  premier art shield when it arrives, as I've heard that this lowers the
>  gloss. I also have some Epson premium semi-matte on the way. Does
>  spraying it with Premier Art Shield increase the gloss with this 
> paper?
>  I"ve seen prints on Epson Premium Luster paper, and they were quite
>  good, very similar to semi-matte or pearl RC silver gelatin papers,
>  although it had too much texture for my liking. Does Epson 
> professional
>  semi-gloss have less texture?

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