Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "KentB" <philip@...> wrote:
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> Has anyone on this group had experience with using the Inkaid product to coat by hand?  Paul Roark's mention of working with Arches or other papers has me thinking about exploring handcoating.  
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> When I look at the available coated papers...there is something missing.  Perhaps it is the simple matter of the mechanical looks of commercial paper.  I am looking for a depth and richness that is somehow lacking.  The notion of taking lovely substrate and hand coating strikes me as appealing...  But of course I fully expect this may be a fool's errand.
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> Any input by those who have experience would be helpful.  
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> Phil
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Clearly not as much as the other respondents, but I use it as well but only occasionally. I consider it great for specialty prints if you want to have something really different.

For "normal" prints I am concerned (but have not tested this) that the reproducibility of the coating is not good enough to reproduce all the delicacies of the tonal range of an image, as you have no garantuee that the coating of the actual print is the same as the ones you did your calibration/curve creation/test prints. So for normal prints I use out-of-the box papers.

But do the other respondents experience with this? Has one of you done a reproducibility test?

Joost