Digital BW, The Print

Steve

You can test it yourself even without such a densitometer. Just put a
light tent around the prints and peek thru a hole in the tent. Or
better yet photograph them through the hole. 
No. It's not quantitative but will show whether or not it's worth
making measurements.

Regards

Duane

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> The whole point is to measure apples (matte ink on matte paper) with
oranges
> (photo ink on photo paper) but with a light source that doesn't bias one
> over the other ie a fair test.  A sphere densitometer takes the surface
> texture off the table so to speak because the light is coming from all
> angles.  Then you have a measure of dMax that is comparable and we
can see
> if your matte ink and matte paper "hills and valleys" produce a better
> result than the properties of photo black ink on "photo" paper.   I
would
> still expect the photo combo to show a HIGHER dMax because I think
it simply
> absorbs light better.  You are arguing that matte paper would have the
> higher dMax.  If anyone has a sphere densitometer it can be tested
quickly.
> 
> Steve