Digital BW, The Print

> Are there any less expensive alpha-cellulose papers without OBE's?
> The Kayenta and Premier Premium Matte are pretty brilliantly white
> (with the latter having a slight magenta cast, btw).

the one thing I have found with papers with OBA's is purely anecdotal but
seems more than coincidental.

I find that in certain lighting conditions, greyscale prints made with
either UC inks and QTR or various of the MIS Quad inks (I've used many
different versions) show a rather nasty metamerism to a slight magenta tint.

This is usually in a mix of some kind of tungsten and daylight. And it isn't
a very big shift in colour (in fact it's quite subtle), but it's enough -
especially in prints with large areas of smooth midtones - to give an
unpleasant effect in those lighting conditions.

What I have noticed is that I don't get this same shift (or, in some cases
the shift is barely noticeable) in papers with no OBAs.

That said, like Paul, I also find most of the papers with OBA's to be
unpleasantly stark for greyscale printing and now tend to prefer those with
no OBA's


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