Digital BW, The Print

I printed the same file in a side by side comparison between Museo silver rag and the 
epson professional glossy (still have a supply of this).  My Museo silver rag prints are much 
richer (shadow separation and detail really sing).  Also, the epson professional  glossy 
paper tended to buckle with heavy ink load.  the silver rag can take all the ink you throw at 
it.  I have been working with this crane paper for  4 days now and keep pushing my 
shadows lower and lower.  The ultimate is to push the shadows really deep in the print 
and then hold the print on the wall under directional spots.  amazing. eleanor

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Atherton" <tim@K...> wrote:
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> 
> > Very nice.  And this looks like a cotton paper?  I know it has a 
> cotton base
> > but can you still see that it's cotton or does it look more RC-like?
> 
> Neither really - the closest is to air dried FB silver-gelatin paper - 
> but it's not quite that either. But it's closer to that than the other 
> two you mention. Like one of the FB papers with a slight texture. Not 
> glossy, not quite semi-glossy. 
> 
> Pretty close to the old lamented Epson Professional Glossy in texture 
> and base colour - a bit more texture though - maybe about the same 
> warmth (but thta's from memory - why they eer dropped that paper is a 
> mystery)
> 
> The base colour someone mentioned - slightly creamy - is close to some 
> of the slightly warm FB papers as well (not quite as warm as say Forte 
> Polywarmtone FB). More creamy warm than the "warm" warm of the some of 
> the rag papers - if you see what I mean...
> 
> tim a
>