Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

Send them to me for Dmax measurements. You already have my address. I 
acnnot measure color shifts, just Dmax.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis" <stevekphoto@...> wrote:
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> Some may remember a few months back I expressed interest in a paper 
> called Sihl Iridium Satin. It is very nice material for an RC 
paper, 
> but the biggest drawback (until now) was unavailabilty in sheets. 
> That discouraged any real interest by list members, and its just as 
> well. I finally got around to doing an informal south-window 
> yellowing test, and the results were not good. But I put up some 
> other papers that have also been mentioned on this forum lately, 
and 
> one that hasn't, and I can at least suggest a viable new candidate 
> for those needing a luster/satin RC paper for commercial printing.
> 
> The papers I put up were: Sihl Iridium satin, Magiclee Lustre 
> Photobase, Inkpress RC Lustre, Ilford Soft Gloss (yeah I know, it's 
> glossy not lustre) and Oriental Graphica lustre RC. As control and 
> comparison I also put up Photo rag, William Turner, and Epson 
> enhanced matte. The enhanced Matte went up 3 days after the rest, 
it 
> was a bit of an afterthought.
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> I left them up for only 12 days before I checked them, and after 
> that short a period this is what I saw:
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> The enhanced matte (after only 9 days!) yelloewd the most, enough 
> that no control print comparison was needed to see the shift. No 
> surprise there.
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> Next in order of visible change was the Magiclee Photobase, Sihl 
> Iridium, and the Inkpress Lustre. The Oriental Graphica survived 
the 
> best of the lustre papers, on a par with the Ilford Soft gloss. 
> There may be a measurable yellow shift in those two, but since I 
> don't have a spectro, I can't verify.
> 
> There was no visible shift in either the Photo Rag or the Willie 
> Turner.
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> That's the bad news. The good new is that the Oriental Graphica is 
a 
> fairly attractive paper (for an RC) prints well in color, takes the 
> K3 & K4 inks well (but not the older UC inks) has good Dmax (anyone 
> care to measure it for the group?) and is available in both rolls 
> and sheets up to 13 x 19. Guess I'll give it a whirl.
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> Steve Karafyllakis
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