Digital BW, The Print

For those who are interested, I have been doing some testing on Crane 
MuseoII Matte Fine Art paper.  

My 4000 is on the blink (what a surprise), so I did this testing with 
my 2200 with the Epson driver using the UC inkset (but with MIS Eboni 
Black).  I used 1440 dpi, slow speed, No Color Adjustment, and left 
all the check boxes unchecked.  Like Museo Max, Museo II reaches its 
ink limit and Dmax faster than EEM.  I found that the EEM setting 
with -15% ink density gave the best Dmax and no reversals in the gray 
ramp, using MIS Eboni Black.  I got a Dmax of 1.65 on this paper, 
which I consider more than acceptable.

Museo II is coated on both sides, is acid free, and has no optical 
brighteners.  It has more texture than EEM and HPR, but is not super 
heavily textured.  Like most 2-sided papers, one side has more 
texture than the other, so you can choose which side to print on for 
a little more or less texture.  

For a paper without any OBA's it is quite bright.  Lab values of the 
paper white read 98L, -0.23a, +2.35b, so it has a slight natural 
warmth to it.  

I told everyone I would report my findings.  

Happy New Year.  

Lou