Digital BW, The Print

I wondered if a paper could be likable without costing so much so along with
getting some new Hahnamühle photo rag smooth 188 gsm to try out this week I
picked up some Smooth Heavyweight Matte Gallery from Ilford which is
enduringly white white with no yellow like the high priced spread.
With the ICC comes a variety of questionable advice with the settings which
my mother would frown on.
Stuff like NO COLOR ADJUSTMENT (then how do you you adjust it you don¹t and
why would they assume everything would come out perfect?)
And HIGH SPEED and 1440 instead of everything set to slow and to the max.

I¹m using a 20% dot gain by the way they and the Hahnemühle and Ilford
people all say RGB.
Maybe they¹d never dream you¹d do black and white?
This Ilford is a really very unembarrising paper I've no idea with the
archival guess setting might be but its nice to not have to feed it in sheet
by sheet and have it not cost so much.
It¹s such a nice pure white and you could almost call it¹s feel Œluxurious².
And being coated on both sides is really ok with Hahnamühle gives me no idea
as to which side I might be printing with with might be wrong or right. Both
are equally sticky using that technique with sticky fingers and by look both
sides look the same to me in just about any light.


Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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Mark;

The fact that this advice comes with the ICC means it is intended for 
color printing: you set the driver to 'no color adjustment and then 
select the profilr they gave you in the Photoshop 'print with preview' 
window. So PS controls the color rendition that way, not the driver.

If you are printing B&W ignore all that and follow the directions for 
your particular printing method. As for lifespan, if you're putting UT 
or UC inks on it, it should be good for upwards of 50 Wilhelm years 
unless like EEM it starts to yellow long before the inks start to fade.

Regards,

Steve Karafyllakis

http://www.stevekphoto.com

 --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Rabiner 
<mark@r...> wrote:
> I wondered if a paper could be likable without costing so much so 
along with
> getting some new Hahnam?hoto rag smooth 188 gsm to try out this week I
> picked up some Smooth Heavyweight Matte Gallery from Ilford which is
> enduringly white white with no yellow like the high priced spread.
> With the ICC comes a variety of questionable advice with the settings 
which
> my mother would frown on.
> Stuff like NO COLOR ADJUSTMENT (then how do you you adjust it you don?
t and
> why would they assume everything would come out perfect?)
> And HIGH SPEED and 1440 instead of everything set to slow and to the 
max.
>