Digital BW, The Print

I guess I should have said that it is a thicker version of the old  
epson "glossy photo paper". It is a good paper.
What I have is definitely not a bright white paper.  Next to premium  
luster, it has pleasant creme color, at least in incandescent light.  
It is thick, but the surface is exactly like "epson glossy photo  
paper" (which is a  paper some people like for it's surface...not too  
glossy). There was even a piece of hair built into the paper. i dont see
how the gloss differential is subjective however. There is a lot of  
gloss diff. Even more than epson ultra premium gloss. I will say that  
after applying print sheild, it is much better, and the print sheild  
actually improves the surface of the paper. With all of the other  
papers I have tried, print sheild shows blobs and spraying artifacts  
and made the surface pretty ugly. It's like the makers have figured  
the spray into the workflow. With spray there is still gloss  
differential after four light coats, but it looks quite good. Better  
than any epson paper with spray. Still it would be nice to have a  
paper that does not need this step. That would be a "breakthrough".



> this doesn't even sound like the same paper. The Innova F-type  
> gloss I've used no doubt
> also glowingly reported on here. It's certainly not warm, much less  
> gloss differential them
> Premium Luster, and bears no resemblence to my memory of cheap  
> Epson gloss or any
> other papers for that matter...
> Aside from appearances it definitely does not feel cheap, but thick  
> and substantial.
> All this stuff is subjective and we will not all like the same  
> materials, sorry you didn't like
> it.
> But it almost sounds like the wrong paper...
> Tyler
>



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