Digital BW, The Print

Hello Greg;

Lovely bunch of numbers I'm sure; you wouldn't care to sumarize it 
for us non-techie dunderheads, would you?

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" 
<dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
>
> OK, nobody kill me, I'm only the guy with the spectro. I just 
> finished measuring all the papers, and zipped it up. For those 
that 
> care... You will get Lab, spectral, and status T densitometric 
> measuresments (two files for each paper). Each paper is divided 
into 
> the reference print, then the test (faded) print in the same file 
(I 
> was lazy). Please take a moment to notice that there is a paper 
white 
> measurement added. Also notice how the paper white has changed on 
the 
> EEM paper (as well as maybe some others).
> 
> Abbreviations shoud be obvious, but here are some that I can 
remember:
> 
> HPRS - Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Satin
> EPG - Epson Photo Glossy
> EPSG - semi gloss
> EEM - Epson Enhanced Matte
> Albrecht - Hahnemuhle Albrecht Durer
> 
> And again, if you don't like the way the test was done, or don't 
like 
> the results, or really anything else that might be even closely 
> related to this, please don't take it out on me, I'm just the guy 
> that was willing to measure it. Sorry no cool graphs, the changes 
> weren't pronounced enough yet to make a real good visual impact. 
If 
> there was more fading, then I might have made some 2D ab graphs or 
> maybe even some Lab graphs to show how much they had changed. If 
you 
> want something that will show a big change, try graphing the 
spectral 
> values for several of the "colors", you might get some info that a 
> Lab value would not show (especially paper white for EEM). 
Spectral 
> values start at 400nm.
> 
> So with all that said, here you go:
> http://www.dfaprinting.com/nanotest.zip
> 
> I'll leave it there for a while (a couple weeks at the shortest), 
but 
> not forever. Enjoy
>