Digital BW, The Print

"but so far I've had no feedback from
Crane indicating that they do intend to modify the surface."

They are interested in YOUR feedback. Don't think you're going to get 
feedback from them. That's not what beta testing is all about.

I've e-mailed my contact at Crane a week ago and I haven't heard 
anything from him.

However, he could be in  out of town. PMA is next month in Orlando, 
but who knows?

Scott


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield 
<scho@m...> wrote:
>
> That was not my experience.  I also did a side by side comparison 
of  
> a silver FB print, air dried glossy with silver rag printed with 
MIS  
> K4 and there was a significant difference in the reflective  
> properties of the prints.  The FB print (Oriental seagull glossy) 
was  
> very smooth with no specular reflections - just a very nice 
smooth,  
> even soft gloss.  The Museo silver rag had annoying, specular  
> reflections, more like RC luster and the surface imperfections 
were  
> readily evident.  Yes, I'm aware it is beta paper so l'm hoping 
that  
> they do improve the surface, but so far I've had no feedback from  
> Crane indicating  that they do intend to modify the surface.
> 
> Carl
> 
> On Jan 12, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Tim Atherton wrote:
> 
> >
> >> Unlike everyone else here, I'm not overwhelmed by the surface. My
> >> samples produce distracting specular reflections over too wide an
> >> angle and will be difficult to light if displayed. One of my 
friends
> >> commented "You printed this on Naugahyde?" Otherwise it's very 
nice
> > paper.
> >
> > I wonder how much these differences are due to different inks?  
> > slightly
> > varying surfaces on the test run paper? Personal Preferences?
> >
> > I think I mentioned, I compared a silver rag print to the same 
image
> > printed on a fairly similarly surfaced silver-gelatin FB paper and
> > found the level of glare/reflection at different angles to be  
> > virtually
> > identical.
> >
> > So I wonder what it is you are seeing here that is different?
> >
> > tim a
>