Digital BW, The Print

>... Moab Entrada for the current one of ~25 prints ...

> Have you found the flaking problem has been eliminated with current papers

Paul --

Funny you ask that tonight.

Actually the flaking is pretty bad. I never really noticed before but while
sharing some 5x7 proof prints tonight with another photographer to help me
decide on the final cut of prints for my show, he pointed out all of the
white specks especially in the deep black areas of some of the prints.

Flaked off areas. For this reason and what I state below, I am abandoning
the Entrada paper.

I have returned to Plan B of printing using a warm ABW setting and printing
on Innova F gloss.

As I stated in a previous post (where I asked why anyone still printed on
matte paper), my images on Innova F are so much better. We held up an
Entrada and a Innova F print of the same image to the wall and the Entrada
image all but faded away while the Innova F print practically jumped off of
the wall -- it has so much more depth and presense.

I thought that I had discounted my previous conclusion about Innova F being
that much better than Entrada (or other matte papers) but I have come full
circle again.

Prints on Innova F are so much better as to render matte paper prints so
much fire kindling.

I have one issue where some of the shadow areas in the Innova prints are a
bit blocked up but I think I can handle this by throttling back a bit on the
ink flow in the Epson driver.

Dave.

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My Photography: http://www.david-keenan.com
My Blog: http://www.david-keenan.com/euroblog


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