Digital BW, The Print

> 
> I just saw a print yesterday done on the Premier Art gloss rag from a
> 4800. I really hated that. Good gamut but it exhibited the strangest
> texture I've seen in open smooth areas, and if it isn't perfectly flat
> it produces horrible shiny glare and bronzing in the blacks. Crane has
> got to be a lot better than that.

You also have to remember that FB Silver Gelatin glossy/semi-glossy 
prints have glare/sheen as well. I held one of my Silver Rag test 
mprints next to such an FB print and although the textures are slightly 
different, it showed no more or less sheen than the FB paper as I 
turned them under the light.

As for bronzing - even with the older UC inks the bronzing is far less 
on Silver Rag than on the Premier Art gloss rag or the similar Photo 
Rag satin (?) paper. With the one sample with K3 inks I have seen I 
couldn't see any bronzing. Also, both the PhotoRag satin and the 
Permier Art paper do have very odd textures which seem to increase 
(almost like being embossed) once the ink goes on the paper - I found 
it quite unpleasent. The Crane Silver Rag doesn't appear to do this.

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