Digital BW, The Print

Harold and Tyler,

Mark Gottsegen is attempting to do this as a new director

Mark D. Gottsegen
Chair, ASTM D01.57
Materials Research Director, ICA
Co-Director, AMIEN
Tel:  336 707 3647
Fax:  336 334 5270
email:  mdgottsegen@...
web:  www.amien.org <http://www.amien.org>
more web:  www.thepaintershandbook.org <http://www.thepaintershandbook.org>

Cheers


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D A V I D    E M E R I C K
Digital Media Specialist
St. Mary's College of Maryland
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http://staff.smcm.edu/dnemerick/
http://emerick.blogspot.com
http://smcmlibrary.blogspot.com




From: Harold Jackson

Tyler --
 I have no disagreement with you. It would serve the paper manufacturers
well to band together to form an independent Institute that would rate all
papers, for archivibility and a host of other measures before introducing
new papers to the market.  As it stands now, we are actually their testers.
 
 This institute would look at issues, such as bronzing, across the spectrum
of printers offered by a given printer manufacturer such as Epson and
objectively report their findings.  For instance, with Epson they would try
the paper with all generations of Epson inks and report their findings in a
standardized way such that it would be possible to make accurate
comparisions across ink generations. This hypothetical institute could also
look at whether images printed on the paper appeared different using Epson,
HP, Canon or,  3rd inks. Such questions as, Does the Epson Gloss Optimizer
provide a different appearance than HP Gloss Enhancer?  would be addressed.
Do B&W prints differ in appearance depending on printer/ink combination?
Same question for color.
 
 These are the kinds of issues that I would like to see addressed.  However,
until such a place is invented, we have Wilhelm.  We have only lemons in our
baskets so let's make lemonade!  That is the spirit of my earlier comment.