Digital BW, The Print

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> I want to try this media with matte black,including the K7 neutral
> inkset. Has anyone tried that yet? This paper may be the last fnal
> blow to the silver darkroom and type c as well.
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> John
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John,

I have some here to try with both the MIS color inks with the Eboni  
black and with a set of K6. I'm still having some problems with one  
color of the K6, but have managed to improve the output enough to  
where I remain hopeful that I can finally get it working.  I only  
have a 5-sheet letter-sized sampler, so I've requested a roll.  I  
need to linearize and profile to really test the paper, and I like to  
print my targets bigger than letter just for the ergonomics of patch  
reading, but I'm eager to try this paper, too. I don't know how  
similar this paper is to what I got with Lyson's Darkroom gloss with  
Fotonics, but if it's similar in look without the problems, and with  
pigment inks, it could be a whole new world.  Pigs didn't work at all  
at all on Darkroom Gloss, and David Williams at Crane says that this  
paper is intended for pigs, so...

James Irelan