Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Phong, No, I have been using it with PS+HP+ Ilford + a bit of patience. The negs were scanned in using a professional (and brand new) Konica Minolta scanner (not mine). The patience (aka fiddling) makes it more wet room-like. The great advantage being that once you've got a print that you like you can write it to CD and there it is, in effect for keeps. BTW last summer (May) Pop Photo in th UK did a test of several papers and these were the results: Olmec Super Gloss Heavy (300g) 94% KOdak Ultima Picture Paper (270g) 91% TDK Professional Photo paper Glossy (270g) 90% Fuji Multijet Premium Glossy (270g) 92% Paterson Exhibition Gloss (270 g) 91% - duller finish than most MX2 Professional Photo Paper (270g) 93% Images were scanned on a Coolscan 4000 and a step wedge and gradient added. Image saved as an RGB file with saturation level 0. Incidentally the same issue was praising PermaJet VT Blax and almost any Epson. For comparison the Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl is 280g - and wasn't in the test...I got to that because I like Ilford and I had reject several others. FWIW I wouldn't touch the HP paper. Hope that this is of some help to you - and anyone else reading it. Peter Phong wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Just to clarify, have you used smooth pearl with > the Cone quadtone Piezography system ? (This is what > I used for my B&W digital printing). > > - Phong > > > Peter Dzwig wrote: > >>Phong, >> >>You could try the smooth pearl, which isn't gloss, but isn't matt >>either - a sort of half-way house. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html