Digital BW, The Print

Folks-

I've finally gotten a box of Crane Silver Rag and had a quick and 
dirty look.  I did this simply by printing an auto nozzle check 
(solid rectangles) with the MK still in the printer, just wanting to 
see what the ink looked like on the surface.  This is a 4800 with K3 
inks.

If I leave out the MK swatch, the ink is *much* glossier than the 
paper itself--the ink looks like something laminated to the surface 
of the paper.  So, I am imaging that an image would show significant 
gloss differential between very open highlights and more dense areas 
of the image, as well as between dense areas of the image and the 
paper surround.

In comparing the CSR to a few silver gelatin, fiber, gloss, matte-
dried prints, the SR is actually more matte than the fiber paper.  
The gloss of the ink is a closer match to the gelatin paper.

Though the CSR doesn't really look like a matte-dried paper, I like 
the look and find it very "photographic."  But with the K3 inks, I 
can't see that it would be useful without a Print Shield spray or 
something like that.

Any comments on evaluating the paper/ink in this way or on my 
observations?

Thanks,
Walt