Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "paulmwhiting" <paulmwhiting@...> wrote:
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> Mark,
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> Will your Eboni 3MK tests include several kinds of paper? As I noted above, I'm using PremierArt Fine Art Paper Matt. They describe it as a rag paper with a 100% cotton base, "naturally acid and lignin free and buffered for added stability", and using no OBA's.
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> I will definitely send in my membership Monday morning, I want to support this valuable work you are doing. And I appreciate your presence here, in this forum.
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> Paul W.
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I see that I'm answering a little out of order, but that's OK. The Eboni 3MK is a very impressive system. It would be good to test this inkset with other papers, so I"m game if people want to submit. I do have an R1800 personally in my printing lab, but I need to reserve it for the OEM inkset in case other new papers of interest need to be tested, but after seeing the submitted print sample (and a pictorial print that was also kindly donated to the Aardenburg Archives to go along with the test prints, I'm sorely tempted to convert my R1800 over to this inkset!

One other thing to mention...with coated papers, the paper base (cotton, alpha cellulose, RC, etc) has a much lesser role in print permanence. Unless the paper core is absolutely loaded with lignin and highly acidic, it's the coating adhesion and coating chemistry interacting with the ink where all the action is!

thanks,
Mark