Digital BW, The Print

Steve Kale wrote:
> Some of us here in the UK just participated in a B&W print exchange which highlighted an 
> "issue" with certain papers.   One of the prints was on "Innova Smooth Cotton Natural White 
> 315gsm cotton rag paper".  I was shocked to see this print flickering in the light as though 
> there were extremely fine grains of glitter in the paper!  Once noticed it was quite distracting.  
> (Lighting conditions are 4700K/300lux)  Knowing that Innova's cotton papers are basically 
> the same as both Permajet's Alpha/Omega range and Mandev UK's Eterna Excel range I 
> decided to take another look at these papers too.  Sure enough they all exhibit the same very 
> fine glitter effect in their coating.  Thankfully HPR did not have the same problem.  Anyone 
> else noticed this?  This pretty much writes these papers off for me (although I can buy HPR 
> rolls from Jim Doyle in the US cheaper than I can buy any of these papers in the UK anyway).
> 
> Steve

I have mentioned it right from the beginning. As I understand 
it Jim has brought it to the attention of Innova then. But I 
do not know whether you got old stock in that print exchange 
or if whether has never been changed in later batches.


Ernst

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