Digital BW, The Print

Said I would report back about the tests I did with the Hahnemuhle
Photorag Baryta paper on the Z3100 with gloss enhancer channel utilized.

I'm going to make this short if I can.

Tested many of these.

This is my workflow as it stands now.
Send file as grayscale, HPZ printer manages color.
No Icc Profile.
Calibrate (linearize) using the new HP Media Setting - HP Baryta Satin
available on their website.

This new media setting apparently adds more glop because the Ilford
Gold Satin Fiber is now working beautifully with this media setting
and it showed lots of gloss differential before on everything. The
Hahnemuhle Photorag Baryta is also looking very very good, though more
expensive.

There is a tad of bronzing on all of these papers with some images if
you are super super picky about it but ironically now the Ilford is
almost completely free of it and the Photorag Baryta is right behind
it because the texture works so well. Both have excellent textures in
my opinion that seperates them from Silver Rag, so they work great for
small as well as large prints. The print color is excellent with no
color inks used, or fine if toned, which I'm not inclined to do unless
I really need warmer results. Tonal distribution and dmax are first
class for these kinds of papers.

This new media setting is helping here.
There is a lot for the manufacturers to learn about this glop to paper
interaction. This is a big deal.

Sill looking to test the Hp Baryta Satin. Not available yet. It could
be perfect. We'll see. Shades Of Paper will have it soon.

John