Digital BW, The Print

Velvet Fine Art is simply rebranded Somerset. Though it is nice paper
the Hahnemühle papers have always been able to get a higher dmax and
ink load. In comparing Innova to Hahnemühle I would expect it to
outperform Somerset as well.
I'm not knocking Somerset, I've seen many nice prints on it, but
something unusual must be going on with your tests. Perhaps there are
other settings that would take better advantage of the other papers'
capabilities.
Somerset still has one of the nicest surfaces ever produced for our use.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "wwodets"
<odets@c...> wrote:
>
> A friend has just sent me an unmanaged 51-step gray file printed from 
> his 2400 and I compared it with the same target printed with my 2400.  
> Both targets were printed on Velvet Fine Art, ABW Neutral (Darker).   
> For the 90, 92, 94, 96, 98 and 100 steps the measured values are shown 
> first for his printer and then in parentheses for my printer:
> 
> 19.46 (19.38); 17.67 (17.60); 16.63 (16.41); 15.53 (15.48; 14.36 
> (14.47); 13.84 (13.83).
> 
> So, it seems to me that the consistency between these two inexpensive, 
> uncalibrated printers is remarkable; and I would point out again that 
> the shadow separation, linearity and D-max of this paper seems much 
> better than anything else I have measured or than has been discussed on 
> the forum over the past few days.  My corresponding figures for the HPR 
> (VFA paper setting) are:
> 
> 18.39, 17.63, 17.14, 16.94, 16.69, 16.80.
> 
> Walt
>