[Leica] Digital & Printing Paper

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

The Photographic Quality paper made by Imation (formerly the imaging
division of 3M) is also an excellent product that feels more like
old-fashioned photgraph paper than many.  A good friend of mine uses it
almost exclusively and when we compared the results side by side with HP
paper the Imation paper was the clear winner with much better color
reproduction.

Peter K

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> From: 	Gareth Jolly[SMTP:gareth.jolly@minters.com.au]
> Reply To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: 	Tuesday, February 23, 1999 2:44 PM
> To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: 	RE: [Leica] digital darkroom / printing paper -Reply
> 
> I second that.  I've tried HP, Kodak, Celcast, Ilford and a few others.
> The
> Epson paper is by far the best.
> 
> That being said, I did pick up an odd batch of Epson photographic paper
> which was thinner than the standard and required a cleaning sheet to be
> put through after every print.  It was a dog, not to put too fine a point
> on
> it.  I can only assume this was an old Epson paper which was still lying
> around on shelves.
> 
> >>> "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> 24/February/1999 01:14am
> >>>
> Alex- this is somewhat off topic- only somewhat - but when digitally
> printing, take real care in selecting your paper, just as you would in the
> wet darkroom. I've found tremendous variation in results depending upon
> the
> paper. I just bought and tried some HP Premium Photo Paper, and, to put it
> in its simplest terms, it sucks. Thus far I've found that I can't beat
> either the Epson Photo Paper or the IBM inkjet photo film....The Epson
> looks
> and feels like photo papers, and gives nice black blacks.....
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Alex
> Hurst
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 8:59 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] digital darkroom
> 
> 
> Fritz wrote:
> >
> >thx for the response on digital printing. 200-260 dpi seems
> >to be working well.
> 
> Fritz - one tip I read somewhere which certainly works for my Leica
> shots
> (to keep on topic) is that the output dpi you choose should be _exactly_
> divisible into the dpi of your printer. The reason for this is to get a
> precise number of dots per output dpi and thus prevent the printer
> software
> from fudging it.
> 
> On an Epson operating at max 720 or 1440 dpi, 240 dpi would seem ideal
> for
> your purposes.
> 
> Happy printing!
> 
> Slan
> 
> Alex
> 
> Alex Hurst
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