Digital BW, The Print

Hello Shilesh,

Nice to hear from you, it's been a long time since the old BO print exchange days.

> The "cool ink tones" were achived with what settings? Using ABW?

Yes, the 2400 is all I have right now, not using any Eboni-based inks.
I have a default ABW setting of 2,8 that I use for the tests.  On EEM   
and VFA this produces a slightly warm neutralish tone that is similar to what Eboni produces and forms a base line for my comparisons.

With that setting these papers produced cooler tones.  I had to warm it up a bit to nudge it back.  The degree of coolness also varied with the ink load (I do two test prints, at -0% and -5% ink load, to see which has better dmax).  The -0% version was cooler than the -5% one.  It's not unusual to see a tonal difference with different ink loads, but I was surprised by the degree of difference.  This paper really is different.  Hard to explain, but it just reacts differently than anything else I've tried.  

Regards,
Clayton


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