Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "chipcarterdc" 
<chipcarterdc@h...> wrote:
>
> As mentioned earlier, certain areas take on a differential 
reflectivity that makes 
> them have a brown/purplish sheen when tilted against the light.  

I'm not seeing this bronzing on any of the prints I've made, color or 
B&W (no metamerism either). The different reflectivity of course I do 
see. My inks are Image Specialists UltraPro (WeInk Chromium Pro). It 
seems to take the gloss from the ink's encapsulation. With matte 
black only, there isn't much difference in gloss between paper white 
and ink black. As soon as you throw in a composite (CMYK) black, then 
you get a bunch of gloss differential between paper white and ink 
black. The color areas have even more gloss, since they don't have 
the matte black to bring down the reflectivity. This HPRSatin looks 
to have an extremely small dot gain with my inks, lower than other 
matte papers to be certain. This helps make my ancient 9500 look that 
much better, the B/W is really very exceptable now.