Digital BW, The Print

Tyler,

I'm going to send you several tomorrow. I'll send the grayscale
version and the srgb version that is toned to "Ilfobrom" hue.

When I look at these on a table they look very neutrally normal to me
and not cold. When I put them next to the same print on Cone Neutral
K7 on Photorag they make the Cone inks look warmer, but the HP prints
still don't look cool to me, probably will to you.... This is hard to
describe you'll have to see.

The more you print on any of the Baryta papers the more Photorag and
William Turner look warm. My old teacher Todd Walker said there is no
such thing as a monochrome print color unless you put something else
beside it and then that changes your perception and defines what it
is. So, if you have a whole show of this work or a portfolio it just
looks natural to me, but cooler than K7, if you are using the HP
blacks only ( which you don't have to do). I woudn't want to mix the
two kinds of print color together in one show however.

In a side note, I'm not sure I agree that there is a one true neutral,
only relative neutrals. Recently I scanned and printed a series of
pencil drawings with the Cone Neutral K7 on Photorag and they matched
the color and tonal values of the drawings so exactly that it was
scary. You really couldn't tell which was the original. So, NK7
matches graphite pencil exactly. Is that slighty warm? Don't know the
answer to that. The selenim tone K7 you are using are closer to the HP
 Vivera blacks than NK7.

John






--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley"
<tyler@...> wrote:
>
> John, thanks so much for the report. Can you describe the surface,
> compared to IGFS? The the base hue, is it acceptable or that blue I
> love to hate?
> Tyler
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