Digital BW, The Print

I know about the Epson EFP only for the test I saw from people who compare
it with others brands at the same Baryta products.
I had a beautiful experience with other HM products, like the Photo rag, and
my first choice was to order first a small pack of papers for the HM baryta,
and the ilford GFS, (because the price and the brand).
I use them with my Epson 9880.
May be I made a mistake with the profiles (I have the regular Epson list in
the Epson printer software available with the printer), but I never get
these D-max desirable in a fiber paper. Then I hate the HM  texture. It's so
visible and ³present² over the image. Both (the Ilford and the HM) feel more
like a plastic paper than a good fiber base one. I not found any radical
difference between those Fb based papers and the RC ones.
Two years ago I made some nice prints in  a Oriental Fb. I supposed Ilford
And HM should beat the Oriental, but they didn't. The oriental feel more
credible and authentic than both them. unfortunately the oriental have a
fragile surface. It's very easy to scratch the image.
Many people in this an other forums about digital printing tested and
compared those papers, and the Epson was a winner. I repeat: may be I made a
mistake with the profiles ( sometimes the instinct is not the best way to do
the job), but I had a sucesfull experience printing B&W images whit other
papers.
I´m so interested in your experience with the HM. I´m not happy to pay for
the expensive Epson EFP.


El 11/2/08 21:08, "pglombick" <glombick@...> escribió:

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> "I made test with the Ilford and hahnemuhle baryta papers And I´m soooo
> disappointed. somebody knows if Epson plan to make the same EF paper in
> bigger sizes?, or any possible replacement?"
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> I'm interested in why you are disasppointed in the HM Baryta. I have
> tried it and Epson EFP paper and found them to be pretty similar
> overall. The HM Baryta has a slightly higher sheen under direct light
> that can be distracting from certain angles and slightly more texture,
> but I found the dmax, sharpness, and shadow highlights to be pretty
> similar. Perhaps we are looking for different things. The Epson is
> pretty bright overall (which I like), but both are definitely not what
> I would call warm papers.
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> The cost of the Epson EFP is pretty prohibitive. For that price, it had
> better be a wonder paper. I had yet to try Harmon gloss and some of the
> lower-priced alternatives.
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