I really have to go with neutrality being in the eyes of the beholder. The same print can be called neutral, warm or cool by different people. I was at the SF Photo show a couple of weeks ago, I was amazed at the variability of the silver prints I saw there. They appeared to have tones from greenish, to reddish, to warm, to cool. I feel that my own vision has varied over time and is much more sensitive now than before. As far as the K7 inks, I think the most obvious benefit is the smoothness. It's extremely smooth -- no dots visible even with a high power loupe. Dmax is probably about the same as other inks. The color tone is very even across the density range. It will vary slightly depending on the paper -- in fact since it has no variable tone varying the paper is the only option. It measures very close to neutral. The paper tone naturally has a big effect at the light end. Roy
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Re: K7 sample print, neutrality, and dmax
2005-08-06 by Roy Harrington
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