Digital BW, The Print

I tried it, looked the same as Epson Enhanced Matte. And it scratches  
very easy with Cone's inks.
Mark

On Feb 21, 2007, at 12:17 PM, dmdctusa wrote:

> I think that after a week of testing I have found Nirvana (or maybe
> Near Nirvana, time will tell).  As background my wet darkroom
> printing was 99% glossy paper which was air dried and my develper of
> choice was and still is Harvey's 777.  This paper has gotten me
> closer to the "look:" than any I have tried.
>
> According to Harman's info, the coating base is Baryta, the same as
> used for the base of high quality silver emulsion paper.  The
> increase in sharpness and depth of the blacks when compared to other
> matt papers is amazing.  NOTE: this is not an ILFORD injet product.
> The Ilford injet paper business was acquired by another company from
> Ciba-Geigy.  The Harmon injet paper shows the Ilford technology in
> silver based papers.
>
> For the record,  my work flow:
>
> Computer: Custom Duo Core 1.8ghz PC, AOpen mb with Intel chips, WinXP
> Pro.
>
> Scan: color neg or B&W film with Nikon Coolscan 4000 (with Nikonscan
> or Vuescan, whichever is better on the given day)
>
> Edit: Lightroom v1.0 for initial conversion and edits. Final levels
> set in Lightzone v2.1 and then back to LR for final printing.
>
> Printing: Epson 2200 - a) for black only straight to the printer from
> LR (UC inks) or b) export image for printing with Quadtone RIP.
>
> For me the key to this flow is the use of LZ from within LR to set my
> black and white levels; the plus is that LZ lets me work on regions
> as well as the overall image.
>
> Finally, the LR/LZ edit interface seem to work well.  It appears that
> if I open the LZ edit image from the LR file I can still access the
> LZ levels etc and save the image back to the LR file with the changes
> reflected in LR.  I would appreciate someone else confirming this is
> in fact happening.
>
> Comments from anyone who has tested this paper would be most welcome
> and of interest to other members of the forum!
>
> David Dorn
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