Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/04

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Subject: [Leica] PMA report
From: bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)
Date: Sat Mar 4 03:10:48 2006
References: <9b678e0603021951o318fe521kd34110935128a0d2@mail.gmail.com> <80E81D85-05FA-4234-BC14-BCE8BA6A5280@ralgo.nl> <9b678e0603031600i7307e5e2g882783c3dc2141c5@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Don. I guess it's wait and see!

B.

On 4-mrt-2006, at 1:00, Don Dory wrote:

> Bruce,
> The tested papers were not the new paper.  I have been watching the  
> B&W
> paper wars for a long time, and up until the new papers showed up,  
> the best
> B&W traditional look paper was the gloss on an HP whatever  
> machine.  Both
> the new Innova paper and the Hannemuhle looked and felt like  
> traditional
> fibre prints.  Deep rich blacks that transitioned into lovely grays  
> and
> clean whites.  No artsy fartsy fine art water color paper low Dmax  
> in the
> new corner.
>
> Pretty exciting really.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
> On 3/3/06, bruce <bruce@ralgo.nl> wrote:
>>
>> As a follow-on to the Innova paper question:
>> http://www.jeremydaalder.com/singleArticle.php?articleID=7
>>
>>
>> On 3-mrt-2006, at 4:51, Don Dory wrote:
>>> Interesting advance for Epson printers, a small English company,
>>> Innova was
>>> showing an inkjet paper that looked exactly like Illford Gallerie
>>> glossy air
>>> dried.  Great feel, wonderful deep dark Dmax, fabulous feel of  
>>> depth.
>>>
>>> Hannemuhle also showed a wonderful paper that looked as good as the
>>> above.
>>> I think that inkjeters just moved into the mainstream and out of
>>> the artsy
>>> world.  No more excuses that you like the fuzzy look of 100% rag
>>> paper.  You
>>> would have to see the black blacks and smooth gradation to real
>>> looking
>>> whites.  Depth to the image that in the past only came from wet  
>>> work.
>>
>> Happy reading,
>> B.
>>
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