Digital BW, The Print

> It's a logical assumption that the photo surfaces would print 
> with more resolution.

I suspect with today's printers and coated papers, whether matte or 
glossy, the dot structure is the main limiting factor for print 
resolution, not whether a paper is glossy or matte.


> ...The best matte coatings do not, even with a textured 
> paper, scatter the inks as one might imagine, but describe 
> the dots very well.

In high resolution scans I see a fairly tight dot structure with both 
matte and glossy papers -- if I see dots at all.  

In this regard, I was  making and printing old photo reproductions 
for the local museum again.  For that project, where the old photo 
reproductions don't have much fine detail in them, I use the 3-MK 
workflow.  There isn't that much information or image resolution for 
the dilute, very smooth, low noise workflows to transmit.  I also 
find that the very fine-grained, sharp image structure of the 3-MK 
workflow makes the images appear sharper than they are.  It also 
tends to hide some of the old originals' defects.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com