Digital BW, The Print

Ernst,

1.7 is conservative as a high end, even for pigmented inks. With the new 
Ultrachromes and UltraTones capable of printing on glossy or RC-type 
papers, we are soon going to see uncoated, pigmented prints that will exceed 
2.0.


Antonis



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ernst Dinkla" 
<E.Dinkla@c...> wrote:
> Robert, you wrote:
> 
> > Yeah...don't buy a spectrophotometer like the spectrocam,
> either for this
> > application.  I have one and it doesn't read reliably above
> 1.7.
> 
> I guess I can find a densitometer somewhere but with a SpectroCam
> available here I wonder whether it is totally useless for this
> kind of work. The 1,7 is near the black of most pigment inksets
> and only dye + coated pigment blacks go beyond that figure. Am I
> right on that observation ?
> 
> Ernst