Digital BW, The Print

Nanochrome black ink gives dmax on matte papers close to 2.

On Jan 22, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Shilesh Jani wrote:

> Hear, hear. Now let us (Epson, or anyone else for that matter)find a
> the K ink which gives us Dmax in the 2 range on matte papers.
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
> <cj@c...> wrote:
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>>> ...they may have a paper that comes close to the fabled silver
> print,
>>> but after getting used to matte papers, I'm not sure I want to go
>>> back to the silver print look for display prints.
>>
>> Exactly my sentiments, and "fabled" is a good word.  I held on to
> that
>> standard in my mind for a long time, but last summer I searched
>> through a box of old fiber base silver prints (mostly on Oriental
>> Seagull, Ilford MGFB and Galerie) looking for something and was
> struck
>> by how distracting and annoying the glare and reflections were.  I'd
>> forgotten how bad it was and realized how much I've come to love the
>> completely reflectionless carbon ink prints.
>>
>> I think that was the final step in completely leaving behind the
> last
>> traces of desire to recreate the look of emulsion prints of any
> sort.
>> I believe I have now, even subconsciously, fully accepted and
>> embraced the fact that we are working with a different medium.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Clayton
>>
>>
>> Info on black and white digital printing at
>> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>>