Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean"
<deanwork2003@...> wrote:
>
> -It is not a bad paper by any means but if you are achieving a greater 
> dmax than Hahnemuhle, you are the very first to report it.

Yup, I'm a bit baffled by that too, but that's not to say wonderful
prints with pleasing blacks can not be made with it.

The impression of blackness seems to have to do with a lot of things,
numbers only part of it.
People continually think the work prints laying around in here on the
H art papers have better blacks than the new photo surface papers also
lying around. Yet the photo papers measure 2+, and the art papers in
the 1.7 area.
All these choices are a good thing.
Tyler