Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: KevinVitali on July 14, 2016, 10:53:31 am
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One of my favorite go to papers for me has been Epson Cold Press Natural. It works great for about 60-70 percent of my photographs. I particularly love the texture of the paper. Unfortunately when I have a print the black density is important this is not a great paper, but I love the texture of the paper still!
Any suggestions of a textured paper with much improved black densities?
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One of my favorite go to papers for me has been Epson Cold Press Natural. It works great for about 60-70 percent of my photographs. I particularly love the texture of the paper. Unfortunately when I have a print the black density is important this is not a great paper, but I love the texture of the paper still!
Any suggestions of a textured paper with much improved black densities?
If you mean matte, the range of improvement will not be huge. You can try Epson Legacy Fibre or Legacy Etching - in a P800 or a Canon Pro-1000, and using the B&W printing modes, you'll get about the deepest blacks feasible nowadays; but it will still be in the range of L*14~15, versus a range of L*1~4 for the better Luster/Gloss papers. You can look up the data in my various recent articles on the new printers and papers.
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You're kind of looking for a unicorn here. Highly textured matte w/ very deep Dmax. Not really gonna happen.
You *may* want to consider something like Premiershield spray, that can often give the appearace of deeper black.
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Epson Hot/Cold Press papers have one the deepest blacks among cotton matt papers. I do not know what kind of printer/ink you use, but e.g. for 3880 ink they give the deepest blacks possible on this kind of paper.