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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Why use PhotoRag paper

2004-04-06 by Jeff Magidson

In my experience I have found images with fine detail to render sharper 
on HPR than on EEM. I think it has more to do with the papers coating 
than wood pulp verses cotton.

-Jeff


On Monday, April 5, 2004, at 08:47 PM, Victor Landweber wrote:

> Although you'll hear it from experienced users "Cotton papers" is a red
> herring. All the famously beautiful silver-gelatin photographic papers 
> are
> 100% wood pulp. There may be more beautiful papers than EEM, but I 
> believe
> it's more because of their "hand" and feel than because of the way ink 
> lays
> on their surface. Once you've matted a print on EEM, it looks about as
> beautiful as you could wish.
>

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