Digital BW, The Print

Most art-oriented photographers have always preferred air-dried fiber
based paper....glossy has always been used for mass-produced press
kits, the cheap stuff. 

No portrait or wedding photographer delivers his good work on glossy
paper, but some of the bargain wedding photographers deliver their
proofs as glossies from minilabs, unconcerned about quality.

Industrial photographers deliver glossy because old fashioned
lithographers preferred it and because of generations of habit.   

The public identifies glossy as cheaper, inferior, because glossy is 
correctly associated with poor or "adequate" quality, mass production.
They don't care about Dmax.

Surely this isn't new information, or debatable? 




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Shilesh Jani"
<shilesh.jani@s...> wrote:
> 
>  maybe 
> > your prints on pictorico glossy dont have the pop that kirkland 
> > has?....DM
> 
> Nope.  The Pictorico has as much pop as any glossy print I have seen 
> including from HP 8xxx on their glossy paper (supposedly Dmax of more 
> than 2.5).  Those in my survey who prefered the glossy print actually 
> said that it had more pop.  BTW when pinned to the wall and viewed 
> from ~3 feet, there is hardly any reason to prefer one over the 
> other.  Many in my survey found the reflection from the gloss 
> annoying.
> 
> ....still searching.
> 
> Shilesh