Digital BW, The Print

Well all I can say is that I am looking at a sheet of each now.  They have a
different coating.  EVFA is much brighter with a slightly smoother finish.
Dmax with Eboni (using Adv B&W on my 4800) is L*=15.7 for EVFA and L*=22.3
for SVE  (each relatively soon after printing).


> From: Tyler Boley <tyler@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:32:42 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 2400 Shadow separation and linearity . . .
> 
> 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 ;-)