Digital BW, The Print

Hello C. David,

>Right, but if you can produce a paper coating that is less brittle 
>and flakey, and more tough and leathery, then it is less prone to 
>dimpling off when you bend the paper, less prone to dusting when 
>you cut the paper, and less prone to adhering on top of the paper 
>as stray scrids that need to be brushed away before running the 
>sheet through the printer. 

Thanks for the reply, you have pretty much answered one of my
questions, which was whether some newer coating technologies might not
be bound by that rule of thumb.  The new Max paper is a good example.
 They have definitely done something different because you can't
scrape any ink off with a fingernail. The paper is damaged before any
ink comes off.  Pretty amazing stuff.


>Thats why the more recent version 
>of Entrada is far more practical for printing images with large 
>dark areas than most other art papers, and older versions of 
>Entrada. I find my print loss rate to "dandruff" related problems 
>to be about 90 percent lower.

Agreed.  My original Entrada had the worst flaking of all, really
horrendous, and that was after a vigorous wipe and blow with
compressed air.  But the new stuff is almost a completely different
paper.  Much improved.  Unfortunately, both it and Max have dmax that
is inferior to several other papers.  I only use them for images that
don't suffer from that.  Too bad because they are both really nice
papers in all other respects.  I posted a report here a few days ago
that described my attempt to use Max to match a VFA print with K3 ink
- just couldn't make it.  I'm still waiting for my dream paper...

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm