Digital BW, The Print

That's interesting. Tonight I am printing a color print with
Ultrachrome that had a 100% black background. I'm printing on Photorag
and Museum Etching as tests. The proof someone gave me to match was on
Epson Velvet Fine Art. I can't achieve that dmax with my roll
Hahnemuhle papers. The VFA is visually much darker. I measured it once
and it is way up there with their inks. Epson did a good job of
creating that coating with their inks. Too bad they don't make it in
rolls. Odd, because it is a better papaer than Sommerst I think.
Wilhelm has a pretty good rating for it with black and white with UC.

I don't use it for monochrome because with the Cone K7 inkset it is
actually lower in dmax than Photorag. Go figure. Ultrachrome is very
different.

I agree the Innova Soft Texture is a very nice paper for the money,
but not quite the dmax of Hahnemuhle, but close.

john





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@...> wrote:
>
> Here's an experiment with the <PRE> tag:
> 
> <pre>
> Paper                   Eboni      K3
> ---------------------------------------
> H. Photo Rag             1.72     1.65
> E. Velvet Fine Art       1.71     1.75
> E. EEM                    ?       1.70
> I. Soft Texture Art      1.65     1.66 
> PA Fine Art Hot Press     ?       1.61
> HM Merlin Natural         ?       1.55
> </pre>
>