Digital BW, The Print

Sihl Iridium Satin:  L 97.15, a 0.75, b -2.89

Epson Premium Semimatte:  L 96.90, a 0.04, b -3.80

On Feb 1, 2006, at 2:03 PM, joshhackney wrote:

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> Carl,
>
> If you have a few minutes, could you take some Lab readings for  
> paper white?
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> Thanks!
>
> Josh
>
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield  
> <scho@m...>
> wrote:
>>
>> I received printed and unprinted sample sheets of the Sihl Iridium
>> Satin paper (SIS - my acronym) yesterday from Steve.  Steve's prints
>> were made with his R1800 and MIS K4 inks.  I made some test prints on
>> the blank sample sheets using MIS K4 inks in my Epson 2400.  Dmax was
>> essentially the same from both printers with the MIS K4 PK  (1800:
>> 2.30, 2400: 2.32) on this paper.  Data below were obtained using the
>> i1 Spectrophotometer and Quickread to measure patches from a printed
>> step wedge on Steve's sample print.  Good neutrality and the paper is
>> a slightly off-white color, compared to Epson Premium Semimatte which
>> is a bright white paper.  SIS surface looks almost the same as the
>> semimatte - very smooth, soft satin sheen with no distracting
>> reflections.  Nice heavy paper, but since the sheets were cut from
>> the end of a 24 inch roll there was some latent curl.  This is a
>> beautiful paper with a smooth surface that looks more like air dried
>> silver than any other ink-jet paper I've seen so far and it is a
>> perfect match for the K4 inks (and probably K3 as well).   I hope we
>> can find a vendor for SIS that will supply sheets as well as rolls.
>>
>> Carl
>>
>> Sihl Iridium Satin
>>
>> 100% Black patch reading:  C 2.30, M 2.30, Y 2.28, V 2.30
>>   50% Black patch reading:  C 0.65, M 0.67, Y 0.68, V 0.66
>>   25% Black patch reading:  C 0.25, M 0.26, Y 0.26, V 0.25
>>     0% Black patch reading:  C 0.03, M 0.03, Y 0.02, V 0.03
>>