Digital BW, The Print

john schreef:
> I believe you, I just have looked for problems and never found any here.
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> 
> I was trying to find bw data on Wilhem's site but Hahnemuhe  and Canson only paid for color tests so we don't have that info to compare with Hp Vivera Photorag and Epson K3 ABW black and white tests on Premier Art rag. Thats very unfortunate.
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> But on a side note - the Hahnemuhle color tests with K3 show the same figures for Photorag and Museum Etching for color. But that isn't what I wanted to see. 
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> john

We still use HPR. There has been the yellowing but it was an obvious 
case of air pollution indoors, a thing that happend about ten years ago 
and since then we know the issue but I have yet to see a customer that 
complained about it. It doesn't change color here and Eindhoven isn't 
known for its pure air in the Netherlands.

There have been issues in the past with both Photorag and German Etching 
.... coatings not even, high flaking grade, roll start embossing through 
layers, but that has been a thing of the past or is solved to a high 
degree. For example 3"rolls with a parallel core winding was an improvement.

The HP Hahenm\ufffdhle Smooth fine Art Paper is quite similar to Photorag but 
is 265 gr/m2 and has a slightly more natural color. I do not see a 
better image quality compared to Photorag but there are other opinions.

The few times I have replaced Photorag with Innova were not that 
successful, waves in the coating at one side of 44" rolls for example 
and that was for the total batch, had to wait for replacement rolls. But 
t looks like things improved there too.

Intellicoat had some art papers before they started the distribution of 
Crane and they still have them in their catalogue.  Magicl\ufffde Verona High 
Definition Rag 300. Anyone familiar with that paper? There were some 
prints on that paper on the Photokina 2008 and just on eyesight it 
looked very good. Got an award quite recently.

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Met vriendelijke groeten,   Ernst


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