Digital BW, The Print

My understanding is that St Cuthberts Mill ships the substrate and then
Epson has its own (or more likely yet another third party) coating and so
performs much better than Somerset Velvet Enhanced.  I agree the Somerset
product isn't that great re density but has a nice finish.  I have a couple
of unused boxes tucked away somewhere - not bad ink blotter paper ;-)


> From: Tyler Boley <tyler@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:46:22 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 2400 Shadow separation and linearity . . .
> 
> 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
>