Re: difference hp Z2100 and Z3100- now PL fo B&W
Re: difference hp Z2100 and Z3100- now PL fo B&W
- Subject: Re: difference hp Z2100 and Z3100- now PL fo B&W
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:48:27 -0700
In a message dated 3/19/07 10:23 AM, Tyler Boley wrote:
> Bill has done a lot of remarkable work, none of which might be described
> as fine art B&W, unless there's work out there I have not seen.
> Steve is right, that same community also rejected RC darkroom paper for
> similar reasons.
To compare photographic RC paper to Epson Premium Luster strikes me as
unfair. Wilhelm Research rates Premium Luster for a permanence that even the
best RC papers never had and never will -- a permanence rating that stands
out as very respectable, though not mind-blowing.
See Wilhelm Research's site for some exact figures:
<http://www.wilhelm-research.com/epson/WIR_Ep4000_2004_05_01.pdf>
<http://www.wilhelm-research.com/pdf/WIR_Ep9600_2003_11_01.pdf>
Premium Luster is clearly far from being the end-all of fine art papers. For
example, I am troubled by its very visible gloss differential and its
thinness. (Gloss differential is still very much an issue with Hahnemuhle's
Fine Art Pearl as well, in spite of their claims to the contrary.)
But if the prints are under glass and matted, Premium Luster is a perfectly
defensible choice of paper for many uses -- though not for museum or
high-quality gallery exhibits.
Marco Ugolini
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