Digital BW, The Print

No matter who does what where when with it, it used to perform the
same. Perhaps it has been changed.
T

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
>
> 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@t...>
> > 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
> >
>