Digital BW, The Print

I finally had this happen to me using one of my favorite papers which is Hahnemuhle 
German Etching.  It is not a consistant problem and an easy way to avoid it entirely seems 
to simply pull some paper out and go over it with a soft lens brush before printing.  Seems 
to be mostly an issue with the beginning of the rolls.  I also use Epson UltraSmooth and 
have never had any issues with it.  I will say that the Hahnemuhle(and the Innova I tested 
which prints very similar to Hahnemuhle) does indeed give a slightly deeper Black and 
better seperation in the shadows than UltraSmooth.

Tariq

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "tims8686" <tims8686@y...> 
wrote:
> FYI....Recently I started using Innova Smooth Photo Cotton 315 in 17"rolls for my Epson 
4000 
> printer, a decision based upon severe testing of many papers by a Kalamazoo friend 
Tom 
> Brayne, also a member of this forum.  I love the look and feel of the paper, and the 
tonality it 
> offers, but I'm having a problem I hadn't planned upon.  When Innova trims the paper, 
small 
> shards and bits of the stuff get caught up in the roll along the edges and when that part 
> comes into the printer these stick to the surface, get printed over, then when the print 
comes 
> out the pieces fall off and show up as white spots, not unlike the dust spots we all knew 
and 
> loved in conventional darkroom work.  So far I've gone through two rolls and the inside 
of my 
> printer had many of these paper particles sitting around the print head area and such.  
> Yesterday it took me roughly 8 prints to get three good ones that didn't have this 
problem, 
> so I switched back to Epson Smooth Fine Art just to get the job done, although I don't 
like the 
> warmish tone compared to the Innova white.  I also had to do a nozzle clean as I think 
some 
> of these pieces had gotten caught up in the print head itself.  Not completely sure about 
this 
> one, but I think that's what happened.  
> 
> This paper is very nice, but until Innova can figure out how to trim the paper clean I'm 
going 
> to be very careful when using it, and may well try to clean and blow off the paper before 
it 
> gets into the printer, and will have to do this before each print.  What a pain.