Digital BW, The Print

Good evening, Paul

Thank you for your prints. They look very familiar.

I have three questions, if you don't mind.

You have printed on Ilford Pearl using Photo Quality Glossy Film as Media Type. Would you care to comment on that?

You said that one of the prints is on Photo Paper, but the paper is matte. As you'll see when you get my prints, my Photo Paper is glossy.

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Your cleaning recipe is "window cleaner (water with a little ammonia)." We don't have Windex here; one of the available window cleaners is called Windus. Its composition: less than 5 per cent (the rest must be water) ionless tensides, ammonia, 2-propanol (propane?) and glycol ether, whatever they are. How does that sound?

Re bronzing: my glossy Photo Paper is best, then comes Premium Glossy, and Premium Semigloss is worst. On one print I made on Premium Semigloss there were all kinds of "bronzings" you mentioned in your message. It took five coatings of Lyson Print Guard to eliminate them.

Somerset Velvet has too much texture for me too, but I use Somerset Enhanced Satin.

Ukko Heikkinen

Ukko,

>Thank you for your prints. They look very familiar.

Good, I assume that means the results I get with my 1280 using the 1290
driver are the same as you're getting with a real 1290.  That will make it
easy to support UT2 with the 1290.

>You have printed on Ilford Pearl using Photo Quality Glossy Film as Media
>Type. Would you care to comment on that?

The Ilford coating can't take a lot of ink volume without getting a little
spotted.  So, this media setting has about the right ink limit for the
paper.

>You said that one of the prints is on Photo Paper, but the paper is matte.
>As you'll see when you get my prints, my Photo Paper is glossy.

I will continue to look for papers.  I see several interesting alternatives
to what we now have. 


>Your cleaning recipe is "window cleaner ...

I'm not qualified to judge the effects of various chemicals.  I think I've
heard that some Epson technicians have said warm water is as good as
anything.  I'll probably try that next time.

>Re bronzing: my glossy Photo Paper is best,

Yes, I hope to find an acid-free version of that.

> then comes Premium Glossy, and Premium Semigloss is worst. On one print I
>made on Premium Semigloss there were all kinds of "bronzings" you mentioned
>in your message. It took five coatings of Lyson Print Guard to eliminate
>them.

I like the look of Premium Semigloss after it's sprayed enough.  I think the
image and spraying style determines how much is enough.  I'm just not a high
gloss type guy at this point.

I wish Ilford Pearl was acid free. 

>... I use Somerset Enhanced Satin.

I have some Somerset Enhance Photo Velvet.  Do you know if they have the
same coatings?  If so, I'll use what I have to make some curves.


Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 

For UT2 information, curves, and settings see:
http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/