Digital BW, The Print

Michael King wrote:
> On this topic you might be interested in a video interview with Wilhelm just
> released here;
> http://luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/

Listened to the audio files and it is a nice summary of the
issues.

The RC papers could have been discussed a bit more
thoroughly in my view, there are still questions to be
answered there. I heard no real condemnation of digital RC 
papers
in that interview.

I have seen an estimation that RC papers structurally should 
last
about 75 years so one shouldn't write them off too easily.

Henry Wilhelm likes to refer to Fiber papers and isn't happy
with the term barite for some of the papers. It isn't
explained but my best guess is that the actual barite
content varies a lot within the category. The main thing
is that the Fiber papers try to give the air dried analogue
photopaper look but they are not that related in their 
composition.

I see on Wilhelm's pages that he tested both Harman Fiber
qualities and Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper and the results
are good. The HP Vivera pigment inks perform much better on
the Harman qualities than the Canon and Epson pigment inks.
A quick estimation says 2x the lifetime.

Good to see that Hahnem\ufffdhle and Harman as third party paper
manufacturers have independent testing done (again).


-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst


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