Digital BW, The Print

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Are you saying that
you're NOT impressed with the dmax on matte yet they (the Claria inks)
are much higher than they should be for a dye ink?

Chris Hargens

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg"
<dfaprinting@...> wrote:
>
> Is anyone using any of the Claria ink printers? I'm doing some testing
> with another person and just made some measurements on a few different
> papers. I have to say I'm not real impressed with the dmax on matte
> papers, they are much higher than they should be for a dye ink. Here's
> what I have:
> paper              L                a               b
> EEM 		20.79592	1.492584	 0.9187269
> HWM 		15.01176	0.7535551	-0.5273904
> Merlin Natural 	18.18041	0.7569027	-0.5177056
> PGPP 		2.541729	0.1924215	-2.284739
> 
> PGPP being the only gloss paper in this test. And it looks like all
> the papers except Merlin Natural have OBA. Measured with my
> Spectroscan/Spectrolino, clear filter, on the black background.
>