Digital BW, The Print

Go with the Matte and no, you will not throw away too many.  You will 
be amazed at how your prints look once you start doing this.  

I did it on the cheap to see what the possibilities were.  $90 epson 
C84 and some MIS warm tones.  Can only do 8x10s, but gee, what a 
print!

Enjoy!

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Kish" 
<jim@k...> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm about to dip my toe in the digital printing pool and would like 
to start
> experimenting a bit. I am looking for inks and paper to start out 
with. From
> reading the posts here, I gather that the MIS inks are a good 
choice (I have
> a 1280 printer), but I noticed they have different sets for matte 
and glossy
> papers. In the darkroom I use glossy, fiber based papers, but I am 
not on a
> quest to duplicate this look. If the consensus is that better 
results (read:
> deep blacks, hassle minmization) are achieved with matte papers, 
I'll start
> there. Again, I just need a reasonable starting point - I'm assuming
> there'll be a lot of paper circular-filed before I get the hang of 
this.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jim Kish