Digital BW, The Print

Plastic based "vellum" (ie matte estar plastic) has been used for
decades for drafting (mechanical drawing) with ink (eg India ink and
Rapidograph pens). And of course Epson 2200s aren't the printer of
choice for engineering drawings! 

Plastic based "vellum" evidently serves as a beautiful notepaper if
you're into calligraphy.

What I was thinking about when I advocated translucent paper instead
of the plastic material was continuous tone photographic imagery, and
for that purpose the 2200 would be far superior to HP.  





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, William John
Smith <william@g...> wrote:
> Pigments inks?  Translucent Vellum works fine in dye based HP printers,
> used for engineering drawings.
> 
> William
> 
> > Subject: Re: Printing on translucent vellum
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/14/2005 12:52:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > elitephotolv@e... writes:
> >
> > I have  been trying, unsucessfully so far, to print on a transluscent
> > vellum with  my 2200.  So far, I have only tried a box of paper I
> > picked up at  Office Depot.
> >
> > It said inkjet vellum but the ink does not dry fast  enough to avoid
> > smearing inside the printer.