Digital BW, The Print

the point of the original post was that a paper that can yeild extraordinary B&W prints is 
being discontinued. Purely conversational I guess, thought it was "news".
You lost me on the rest.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Shilesh Jani" <shileshjani@b...> 
wrote:
>
> Tyler wrote:
> 
> > The point to me was it's not the numbers... it's the visual impact.
> > It's not a big number black, it's a gorgeous velvety black you can
> > fall into.
> 
> Sounds like religion; "get-by on faith, my faith" and so on. You can 
> fall a lot deeper into a Dmax 2.0 hole than a Dmax 1.7 hole - oh, don't 
> belive the numbers, just trust me because my head has a bigger bump 
> falling in the former.
> 
> I don't mean to be impudent, but what is the point to the original post 
> unless you give the readers some point of objective reference, i.e., 
> measured density. Bill Atkinson is proabably a great guy, but I hazard 
> a guess that his reputation is built not by "Bill-Speak" but with real 
> data - his printer profiles. Let's all remember: "data is king."
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Shilesh
>