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[Digital BW] Re: Will we be obsolete - it's the papers

2005-06-14 by Scott Graham

Habit like most things I suppose; painters didn't use "glossy" paper   :)

and now that I've switched from darkroom, I prefer matte, though I got here by kicking 
and screaming.

In the darkroom I found matte papers (Kodak Velvet) to be DULL; would NEVER use it.

On my Epson, the blacks on matte are wonderful (I do almost entirely B&W).

Scott2

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Scott McLoughlin <scott@a...> 
wrote:
> Why is matte paper associated with "fine art?" Not a rhetorical
> question. I really don't understand the nature of this association.
> 
> (BTW, I use matte papers mostly and like 'em just fine.)
> 
> Scott
> 
> Peter Johngren wrote:
> 
> >
>

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