Re: [Digital BW] OT: Is there a "Great Paper Chase" for Colour Photographs?
2006-03-26 by Sam McCandless
My goal, Guhan, is to use the same - and few - matte (I don't like glossy) papers for color as for B&W (including BO). But my old printers died only recently. And I don't yet know enough about the 2400 or the 200/220 to have any idea whether this is realistic even as a goal, much less in actual practice. If not, I hope someone will "wave me off" before I try to land on so simple a field. Not that I mind your asking on this list, Guhan, especially since you started with "OT", but there's another Yahoo list, archivalcolor@yahoogroups.com, which Antonis, a founder of this list along with Martin, also started. It's never been as robust a list, but it's still alive and sometimes kicks. The only thread active on it right now is one about Lyson's ink sets. But I hope you'll start one about papers for archival color prints printed with the ink set(s) in which you (and I) are most interested. In about a week, I'm going away for a week, but I'll chip in there too as soon as I can. I hope other subscribers to this list will too. Another possibility, if you're on a Mac, is the Mac Epson list, macepsonlist@yahoogroups.com, (what a surprise). It is quite general within the Mac context, but it is a nice, small, active list nevertheless. -- Sam
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>Hello, > >I've found Clayton's article the Great Paper Chase helpful in getting an >idea of papers to try. Though I've made some very dumb mistakes I'm >enjoying the results very much now. > >I'd like to get an idea of paper for color photographs on an R2400. >Archival quality is of importance to me, and prints will be matted and >framed, as such I'd like to stay away from a gloss paper, but I could be >convinced otherwise. > >I'd be very interested to hear what you are all using for colour. > >Thank you, >Guhan