Digital BW, The Print

I like Crane's Museo Portfolio Rag very much for my black & white printing. Here are some of my Dmax measurements with a few comparisons. Note that I'm using the new GQ2 ink set I designed for Media Street.

Paper					Dmax	   K limit
Museo Portfolio Rag		1.64		 50%
Hahnemuhle Photo Rag		1.72		100%
Museo Silver Rag
  K = Photo Black Neutral	2.09		 63%
  K = Matte Black			1.77		100%

I agree with John Dean: you have to limit the inks on Crane's papers, and it is a beautiful paper. Since it has no optical brightener, it is a little warmer (but just a little) than Hahnemuhle Photo Rag. 

Since the GQ2 ink set includes both warm and cold grays in its seven inks, it's easy to adjust how warm the b&w prints should be. I build Cold, Warm, and Neutral profiles, and Roy Harrington's latest QuadToneRIP offers "Split Tone Curve Blending." That makes it easy to blend those three profiles for beautiful platinum prints (warm in the light to mid tones, neutral to cool in the darker tones) on papers like Crane's.

Richard

Richard Wolfson
black & white digital printmaker
www.RichardWolfson.com


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