Digital BW, The Print

Mark, under what kind of lighting are you seeing a green tint?  And
are you seeing it with all of your prints or just some.  I have not
had much chance to crank out a lot of B&W on my 7660 yet, but what I
have done has shown no color cast that I can see under fluorescent,
incandecent, or natrual light.

Nick, Wilhelm tests show the Ilford Classic Galerie to be good for
20-30 years, and HP Premium Plus for about 70 years.  Although I am
very interested to hear what Paul finds in his fade tests.

Rad

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Nicholas Hartmann
<POLYGLOT@E...> wrote:
> >Ok, made a bunch of 7660 prints on the hp Premium Plus glossy that
> >look really good.  The driver is very accurate and the tonality of
> >the prints is great.  Everyone I've showed them to thinks they look
> >better than my 1160 MIS VM mw prints (hard to accept given all the
> >effort that went into making them)... and this is after I go out of
> >my way to point out the slight greenish tint under certain lighting.
> >The depth of shadow detail is significantly greater than I've seen
> >out of pigment prints.
> >
> >The thing that concerns me is that the paper seems to like to buckle
> >and curl so just hanging the prints behind a matt is not going to
> >work.  How has anyone mounted this stuff?  Is that funky weird stuff
> >on the back a problem?
> 
> Mark -
> 
> I haven't mounted any, but I did find that they can be flattened
slightly
> by using a dry-mounting press on the lowest possible temperature. More
> experiment would probably determine the correct time/temperature
> combination, but the ink/paper combination appears to be robust.
> 
> One way to get around the problem entirely, and to make even
better-looking
> prints, is to use Ilford Galerie Classic paper. I tried some over the
> weekend: it's another swellable-polymer surface so it absorbs and
> encapsulates the dye inks and _should_ therefore be fairly durable.
It also
> swells MUCH less than the HP and has better shadow detail and really
> imperceptible gloss differential. If somebody (Paul, are you listening?)
> will please tell me that this stuff will last at least as long as a
toned
> black-and-white RC print, I'm off to buy a couple 100-sheet boxes
and try
> to unload all the HP Premium Plus I stockpiled...
> 
> -- Nick
> 
> NICHOLAS HARTMANN
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