Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
<cj@c...> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> This afternoon I received a new box of Kayenta.  This evening I was
> making some prints with the last of my original box and decided to
> compare them, as I have seen differences between production batches
> with other papers.
> 
> I was dismayed to find that it has changed enormously, to where it's
> really not the same paper.  Two things,
> 
> 1) The ink color has warmed from (on my Paper Chase scale) B1 to 
B2.8,
> with a chocolate brown color.  IOW, it is no longer a cold paper.  
> 
> 2) Density has increased.  My original batch had nearly identical
> contrast and density to EEM.  I could work up an image and send it 
to
> Kayenta without any adjustment.  Now it prints dark and requires a
> lightening curve.
> 
> Paper color, dmax and contrast seems to be much the same.  
> 
> I'm going to call Moab tomorrow and try to determine if this is 
just a
> batch variation or an actual change in the paper formula.  If it's a
> production variation then it speaks poorly of their quality 
control. 
> I've seen variations before, but they were mostly in density or
> contrast.  I've never seen a color shift of this magnitude.  It's a
> completely different paper.  
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

Hi, again, Clayton,

I mailed three sheets of targets in Kayenta to Cathy Stratton 
yesterday.  I didn't look at them carefully, just put them in an 
envelope and mailed them! I seem doomed for I don't know what flavour 
of A4 Kayenta I sent, nor what flavour of A3 Kayenta I will receive.  
I am going to the UK for a week this coming Saturday, so if you can 
let me know if you hear from Moab about QC by Friday, I could put 
Cathy's profiling on hold. (I only connect to the internet in the 
office.)

Cheers,  Colin