Digital BW, The Print

From: "wwodets" <odets@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 8:23 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] A Quick look at Silver Rag . . .


Folks-

I've finally gotten a box of Crane Silver Rag and had a quick and
dirty look.  I did this simply by printing an auto nozzle check
(solid rectangles) with the MK still in the printer, just wanting to
see what the ink looked like on the surface.  This is a 4800 with K3
inks.

If I leave out the MK swatch, the ink is *much* glossier than the
paper itself--the ink looks like something laminated to the surface
of the paper.  So, I am imaging that an image would show significant
gloss differential between very open highlights and more dense areas
of the image, as well as between dense areas of the image and the
paper surround.

In comparing the CSR to a few silver gelatin, fiber, gloss, matte-
dried prints, the SR is actually more matte than the fiber paper.
The gloss of the ink is a closer match to the gelatin paper.

Though the CSR doesn't really look like a matte-dried paper, I like
the look and find it very "photographic."  But with the K3 inks, I
can't see that it would be useful without a Print Shield spray or
something like that.

Any comments on evaluating the paper/ink in this way or on my
observations?

Thanks,
Walt










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