Digital BW, The Print

From: "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] digital b&w show in Boston gallery


> Have 3 now, a fourth would eat us out of house and home.
>
> Hope to see a 2.5 D Max black ink soon. I'd have to reprint everything!
>
Jerry,

I have to wonder if you could see the difference with out a densitometer. I
know that with silver fiber I could see a small difference by getting the
Dmax up from the 2.1-2.2 range to 2.4-2.6 by selenium toning. With inkjet
though I suspect the discernable limit on matte papers may be around 2.0 I
think that the light scatter effect of matte surface tends to take over and
no matter how much you increased the Dmax of the ink you wouldn't know the
difference.

Now Richard said he was printing on a "microporous luster paper" which I
assume is one of the semigloss or glossy papers and the additional Dmax is
probably visible.

Martin