Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Clayton,
Your website articles are an excellent online resource which I will 
make full use of. For fine art prints I will first test the Epson 
Velvet paper and when it becomes available I will have the option of 
eboni black. Is eboni black entirely compatible with the epson inks 
for colour printing? Does the use of eboni black present any problems 
if I use the Harrington RIP for it's soft proofing ability? I will 
test drive both your "sensible and easy approach" to fine art b&w on 
the 2400 and the possibly the Harrington RIP.
I am guessing that availability of many of the papers you tested in 
your great paper chase are not easily available in the UK. I do have 
some Lyson smooth fine art (double sided 300gsm)which is rumoured to 
be a Hannemhule paper though I am not sure.
I guess I set high standards for Dmax since I used to selenium tone 
my fibre based wet prints.
Regards, Pete.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
<cj@c...> wrote:
>
> Hello Pete,
> 
> >I suspect the paper I used may not have been the 
> >best -- Epson "watercolor" and "Heavyweight matte". 
> >I would be very grateful for any advice or recommendations.
> 
> You might get a bit more dmax out of some different papers.  Epson
> Velvet Fine Art, Hahnemuhle PhotoRag, and Red River Dourian Art all
> have the highest dmax ratings among matte papers (the "Great Paper
> Chase" article at the link below has a comparison of 25 matte 
papers).
>  And yes, using Eboni will help a bit too.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>