Digital BW, The Print

Sorry - playing catch up on this thread..

[Unless you have a white ink...


From: Steve Kale <stevekale@...>
Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:08:41 +0100
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: How many shades of grey?
 
How do you adjust an ink set for paper tone?  No way that I know of...]


> From: piezobw <piezobw@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 03:32:28 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: How many shades of grey?
> 
> --- 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