Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
<cj@c...> wrote:
> Hello Colin,
> 
> I've been following your "adventures" here with the Satin paper, 
been
> wanting to say hi.
> 
> 
> >...is going to bring in Moab Kayenta at about the same price 
> >as EAM in the UK.  I'm going to try that for proofing and maybe 
more.
> 
> Even though it's colder, Kayenta has contrast and density very close
> to EEM.  If it's the same price, being 2-sided should make it even
> more economical for proofs.  
> 
> I like the paper a lot, although a bit on the thin side (205 gsm). 
> I've been using it for a scrapbook project for my church and it 
works
> well because it matches the pages in color and it's thinness
> (flexibility) helps it endure the page turning, especially when the
> kids get ahold of it <g>.  The prints are glued down with Avery Glue
> Stick (acid free, "photo safe", like a lipstick tube), and it's
> holding up real well so far (almost 4 months now).  Kayenta has a 
real
> nice look to it, lot of depth, excellent dmax, but it's cold Brrr.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

Hi, Clayton,

I am glad you responded.  It is a long while since I received your 
print and I don't know if you ever received mine (The African nude 
with the pigtail) done on an Epson 2100  which I said looked green.  
I think it was Ernst Dinkla who, some months later, said that Epson 
2100 users had to use the Epson 2200 driver.

These senile meanderings are to point out that I like the BO output 
on PR Satin with Eboni.  Warmish but I don't know where on 
the "Clayton Paper Scale".  The wrap-around luminosity of those 
hoodos at Bryce looks good in BO - I think I could spend the rest of 
my days in S. Utah and N. Arizona!  The paper has a feel and quality 
about it that appeals to me, with the caveat of course, that it is 
printed black only.  I can send you some sheets if they qualify as 
matt paper, but maybe Jim Doyle is closer!

I would regard the paper as "unfit for the purpose intended" and, if 
in the UK (or Germany) pursue the matter....but I'm in Greece!  Nuff 
said.

Although at the end of this note, my thanks to you for your efforts 
and insights are not a PS, but a real thank you.


Colin