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[Digital BW] Re: How many shades of grey?

2005-06-16 by piezobw

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield <scho@m...> 
wrote:
> I assume that unless the inks are completely opaque there is some  
> paper color influence on the neutrality of the print.  Is there a lab  
> neutral paper to use with these neutral inks?
> 
> Carl Schofield


Well that's the thing. We designed the Lab Neutral on Bradford Bright White, Innova Photo 
Cotton Smooth, and Hahnemuhle Photo Rag papers. They share nearly the same color of 
"white" which is far from neutral. But K7 will appear neutral on these papers.  Using K7 on 
Bradford Brilliant White it shifts it Selenium....

Photo Rag is not Lab Neutral of course. There really isn't a Lab Neutral paper that I know. 
But the color of PhotoRag is one of the most popular colors with my users.  So we 
designed the K7 neutral effect on that paper. Innova and Bradford papers clone that color.

Does that make sense?


Jon Cone

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