Digital BW, The Print

Hi Clayton,

So the problem with dmax is that its paper AND ink dependent, as you know.

HPR is not so good with K3, but is great with Eboni - I am getting L= 14.0 -
14.2 very similar to what Paul is getting with the Alise Natural.

Mike

2010/1/1 ClaytonJ <cj@...>

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> Hello Paul,
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> > I just ran some Black Only on the 1400 with Eboni. Briefly, the Gen.
> Alise Natural turned in an excellent performance. I think it's the lowest
> Lab B rise I've seen with 100% carbon, going from Lab B = 1 to 3, then
> diving to -0.5 at 100%.
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> Wonderful...but can you translate this into conversational English? I'm not
> conversant with the LAB terms and really don't know what it's saying.
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> >At 100% I'm getting Lab L in the 14's, with the lowest being 14.1. >This
> is mid-1.70's dmax.
> > I'll do more when I have some time.
> Thanks very much. If you can nail down an exact Dmax value I'll add it to
> my chart.
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> >Quite a paper.
> Yes indeed. Do you know of any other non-OBA paper with this kind of Dmax?
> I've been using Soft Textured Art. It's beautiful stuff but the Dmax with K3
> is 1.62, good but not great. And even at that it's one of the best I've
> found among natural papers. Many are in the 1.5's, so I was happy to find
> it. But this stuff blows everything else out of the water and it's less
> inexpensive as well. Imahappycamper <g>.
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> Regards,
> Clayton
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> Info on black and white digital printing at
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> I-Trak 2.1 http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
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