That is the setting that I use and is appropriate but as in all other settings, it has a lot of bronzing which I would not call great. A lot of bronzing, as with ALL the other "fiber gloss" media. The Ilford Gold has the worst in my experience by far, though it looks great otherwise and the price makes it worth using for some things. The Innova Semi-Matte and Ultrasmooth Gloss have the least bronzing and great gamut, but both still need spraying in my experience, especially with black and white work that is not behind glass.
I'm not really faulting HP for this bronzing as their Satin rc looks perfect, absolutely perfect. The bronzing problems are with the papers. Epson K3 does the same thing..look at it at an angle and people say "oh its too digital looking" and they are right. They do not look like gelatin silver prints because they have significant bronzing that gives an almost gloss differiental quality the way it outlines shapes between shadows and highlights.
Luckily for me I'm not seeing any roller marks or star wheel marks on any of the papers except for the Harmon high gloss fiber that I don't like anyway.
So, I have to spray this gloss fiber stuff with Premier Art spray and I'm not happy about that at all so I am going to avoid all these papers. Hopefully HP will come up with a great paper this year that is doesn't cost a small fortune and has smoothness comparable to their Satin rc. No one has invented the perfect gloss fiber coating yet and I couldn't dream of affording these papers in larger sheets or even rolls anyway. They are charging us way to much (besides Ilford) to be guinea pigs with this stuff. Epson's "revolutionary" Exhibition Fine Art is no different than the Innova USGLoss that has been around for some time now. Same bronzing.
john
Hi Charles
I use the more ink option of the fine art pearl settings with Museo's Silver Rag - gives great results. :-)
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