Digital BW, The Print

and flaking can occur if you don't linearize the media well and end up laying down too much ink, especially in the darkest shadow zones. Many of us, including myself, have been spoiled in the way that Photorag, and Hanhemuhle in general can absorb lots of black ink while most papers of similar surface can not, then we blame it on the coating of the other surfaces. Innova and Crane media also require more limiting with most printers for monochrome to achieve optimum dmax without flaking, reversing of dmax, or mottling. 

This is a factor that one can appreciate with the well thought out Hahnemuhle ink receptor coatings. And, they deserve credit for that quality. Personally I haven't run across any coatings that have performed as well in that regard overall.

john



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "tboleyyh" <tyler@...> wrote:
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> Clayton, the tests I've had laying around here for some time seem to me to a bit more robust than HPR's coating, so I'd pursue these other mentioned issues and see what helps. I wouldn't give up on the stuff yet.
> Tyler
> http://www.custom-digital.com/
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ClaytonJ" <cj@> wrote:
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> > Another thought - this paper has a strong curl and I am gently reverse bending it to flatten it before feeding to the printer.  Maybe this bending is causing the flaking...
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> > Regards,
> > Clayton
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> > Info on black and white digital printing at    
> > http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> > I-Trak 2.1   http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
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