Digital BW, The Print

Clayton Jones wrote:

>Well, this is plain weird. On some papers a dither that's marginally
>better on one paper and significantly better on another is worse on
>another.  On PR some fine details are dramatically better while the
>clouds are worse.  On Aurora, one area of fine detail is significantly
>better and another is dramatically worse.  Strange strange.
>  
>
Dotgain differences I guess. Dotsize differences, dot distribution, 
speed of printing can influence the amount of bleeding. Linearisation 
should control that and in the end it could well be that the best 
ditherings are almost alike in quality when the linearisations are done :-)

Anyway you could linearise the best paper/dithering combination and use 
that as the standard to measure the others against. The "fast" 
ditherings are not worth testing anyway.

Remember that this is also a matter of taste. Like a grainy print made 
with Tri-X may look nicer than what you get from HP5.

Ernst