Digital BW, The Print

Antonios! The black I'am getting Using MIS  STANDARD hextones is comparable 
to the Piezo blacks you would get on popular papers such as Orwell, Wells 
River or EAM. 
I was able to jam a sheet of this 350gsm paper in my Piezo 3000 machine and I 
was quite surprised. Your right! Piezo inks do not like this paper at all! It 
made the worst looking black and white inkjet I've ever seen! Could be a 
major profile mismatch but it wouldn't be worth the work to try and get it to 
print better.
As far as the Epson Fine Art smooth? The MIS blacks are very dense! as black 
as any piezo black i've seen. I was unable to directly compare this paper 
with Piezo as its way too thick to get in the printer! 425gsm 19mil. This is 
almost 2ply mat board.
The bad news on the Eclipse paper is, it does not come in 17x22 or work with 
Piezo so to make 16x20's I would have to go for the 24in rolls and its 
limited to MIS inks or color work.
Still a very nice sheet for MIS quad or hex inksets.
Antonios, do you have a 7000?
Steve M.

In a message dated 08/15/2001 12:57:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
antonisphoto@... writes:

<< Steve,
 
 could you comment on the relative strength of the black on these papers?
 Have you seen them both with the hexatones and the piezo (side by side 
 preferably)?
 The Eclipse looks miserable with piezo, mainly because it lacks a good 
black. 
 But I hear the Epson FA smooth is a winner in piezo, so I am guessing it 
wins 
 with both inksets.
 
 Thanks for the mini review. Please update us along the way.
 
 
 Antonis >>