Digital BW, The Print

He uses the older Cone Quad inks, plus another portfolio black as an
underprinted kicker. But this is all through Studio Print.

I've used a couple of rolls of the Crane Portfolio Rag and personally
like it. Especially for use with the Cone K7 Sepia inks. That is a
very nice combination. It is a natural paper with no oba content, so
it is less white than Photo Rag. This Portfolio Rag is a really nice
smooth sharp paper though and is wonderful for small warm prints in my
opinion. My dmax is slightly less than Photorag with K7 Cone neutrals
and sepia but not really noticeable to me.

The deal with all the Crane matte rag papers is that they bottom out
on ink limits very quickly. So, they absolutely need to be carefully
linearized for the given inkset and printer. With all the Hahnemuhle
papers and most of the Innova matte papers you can throw a lot of pure
black at them and not get motteling. Not so with Crane. Too much ink
and your dmax reverses quickly. If you are making a curve with QTR,
limit the ink.

John




> This may also be an ink/paper combo issue, as I know Tyler uses Cone
> inks. However, I'm not sure if he used K7 or the older Cone inks when
> he tried out Portfolio Rag.
> 
> Terry.
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Michael King"
> <drmrking@> wrote:
> >
> > You should be able to get at least as good if not better dmax with
Crane
> > than Hahnemule.
> >
>