"I think it’s hilarious that you think you’re the first person to print at this resolution. You’re only scratching the surface." - quoted from Mark Olwick's comment on Ming Thein's blog.
I fully agree. A lot of overheated puffery. Frankly, I thought this is normal practice when making prints small enough with excellent quality source images. And even with larger prints, by employing multi-row stitching. This is not foreign to many demanding members of lu-la and elsewhere.
Platine does not contain baryta. It also does not have a "very fine fibre sturcture". Note that Wesley, the print master who made the prints, favors Harman's Gloss Baryta as mentioned in the comments. That is a baryta paper and does indeed have a very fine structure, and sharper than almost all commonly available inkjet fine art paper I know of. Moreover, Platine isn't as capable in dmax and gamut, compared to many other glossy surfaces. It does lie quite flat when printing from rolls and has no OBAs, which is nice.
"Recursive sharpening process"? Does he mean deconvolution sharpening? The word 'calibration' is used rather loosely too.
"Who’d have thought you actually need a D800E’s 36MP for a sub-A3 print?" - Erm, a lot of us out here?
