Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Baryta inkjet papers are great for people who never accepted inkjet photographic prints as "real photographs". But feel the only "real Photographs" come out of darkrooms. If this was my feeling I would be printing darkroom prints with darkroom paper as I did rather intently for 30 years. They would look just like darkroom prints. I don't want my inkjet prints to look like darkroom prints any more than I want my darkroom prints looking like inkjets or my Platinum prints looking like darkroom prints. I want my inkjet prints looking like inkjet prints. Because that what they are. And no apologies are needed for them I feel my prints are nothing less then gorgeous.. I'm going to stop typing and print one right now. ...... I just did. ........ 100% rag inkjet prints have been accepted by serious collectors for near a decade now. With pigment "ink" sitting on top of them. Does Baryta "improve" their look or just make them look like the darkroom prints we've been looking at for the previous century? It makes them look "smoother" I just read. I don't understand this need for smoothness. My prints don't seem the slightest bit rough. I'll have to see the stuff. Rough! Mark William Rabiner