I'm going to look up the price now. 8( Jack
--- On Tue, 5/26/09, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> > Subject: Ilford "Gold Fibre Silk" inkjet paper > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 12:20 PM > So... After reading about it for > months I finally got around to trying > this stuff. > > This is one of the new baryta (barium sulfate) inkjet > papers. It's > archival, heavyweight stuff with no optical brighteners and > a > beautiful surface that's not quite "gloss" but smoother > than lustre > papers. > > I went big, ordering a box of 50 Super B (13" x 19") > sheets. > > First step was making a profile for it with a > spectrocolorimeter and > ColorVision PrintFix Pro software. My printer is an older > model (Epson > Stylus Photo 2200) which doesn't seem to get as much > attention as the > newer models when paper makers are creating profiles (I've > found > Hahnemuehl's profiles for the 2200 to be useless). I let > the color > patch test print dry for 24 hours to be extra careful. Then > a few text > prints to tweak the resulting profile into perfection and I > was off. > > Long story short: This is by far the best inkjet paper I've > ever used. > It seems to work well for everything, B&W and color. > The prints have a > stunning depth and luminosity. Just amazing. This is going > to be my > standard portfolio paper now. > > I'm running off a few prints now, so those who make it to > GFM will be > able to have a look in person. (And yes, Mr Stenquist, I > *was* hoping > to get your opinion on this stuff. Now I'll have to wait.) > > Verdict: The best inkjet paper yet and worth every penny, > despite its > rather silly name. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
