[alt-photo] Re: Paper issues

[Diana Bloomfield]

It's really really nice, Paul-- probably the nicest paper I've ever used with pt/pd (aside from this vellum I bought from someone a long time ago that I'm hoarding). ;)


On Feb 9, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Paul Viapiano wrote:

> I'm looking forward to trying Magnani Revere with pt/pd. I've used Fab EW for a long time and love it, but it'd be nice to eliminate a pre-treat step.
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> Paul
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> On Feb 9, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Diana Bloomfield<dlhbloomfield at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Not related to Strathmore-- but speaking of paper, I recently ordered some COT320.  I was printing pt/pd on it, and the results were very grainy.  I was using a digital negative, so I re-did the negative-- thinking that might be the problem.  Still grainy.  So I printed the same thing on Arches Platine-- no problem at all.  I discovered an old sheet of COT320 I had, from a year or so ago-- and printed it on that.  It was perfect.  So-- this whole new batch of COT320 I got seems to be awful (for pt/pd).  I don't know if this is a permanent change, or I just got a bad batch.  It's very annoying when that happens.  On the other hand, I had recently purchased this Magnani Revere paper and printed some pt/pd on it-- and it was really so so nice-- now my favorite paper for pt/pd.  Haven't yet tried anything else on it.
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>> Diana
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