Digital BW, The Print

Ron,

I haven't tried this paper but it might be of interest to you for a 
dye-based ink set. Brightcube has a paper called Gelatin Art 
described as:

"Gelatin Art is 100% cotton fiber, is acid-free, and inkjet coated 
with photographic gelatin. Gelatin Art is a warm white, textured 
watercolor paper that provides "predictable longevity" with virtually 
all dye based inks.
Weight: 300gsm"

I saw it at http://www.photoinkjet.com Maybe you can get a sample 
from them. The implication is that it is similar to traditional 
silver fiber print. If you try it, let us know what its like.

"...inkjet coated with photographic gelatin." Hmmm...probably a 
typo...

Martin Wesley





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., ron@p... wrote:
> I just received a two sample prints from Allen Takichi Maertz of 
> Lincoln Ink & Papers, www.lincolninks.com, printed with their 
> Spectratone monochrome inks.  One print is on Oce watercolor paper, 
> and was not impressive.  The other is on Ilford 9 mil Glossy paper 
> and is most impressive.  The blacks are incredible.  I measured the 
> reflectance of the zero patch to be 2.4!  This I compared to a zero 
> patch reading of Cone's inks on German Etching Board (Orwell) which 
> is 1.63.
> 
> The sample was printed on an Epson 3000 as a CMYK file using the 
> Adobe Pressready RIP.  I can see the dither pattern, but overall 
it's 
> not too bad.  
> 
> The print on the Ilford glossy looks very much like a photo RC 
glossy 
> print, which is not the look I prefer for my fine art prints, but 
> that black is hard to dismiss.
> 
> I'm going to order a sample of the paper to try with Cone's 
inkset.  
> They'll probably smear, but it's worth a try.  I'll also order a 
set 
> of Spectratone carts for my 3000 and print through Cone's RIP and 
my 
> Wasatch RIP.
> 
> I'll post my findings.
> 
> Ron