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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: sm906 on January 05, 2011, 01:05:37 pm

Title: Lumijet photo paper experiences wanted
Post by: sm906 on January 05, 2011, 01:05:37 pm
Hi,

I have the oppertunity to obtain Lumijet Classic Velour and Museum Parchment for a very reasonable price (sell out of 24" rolls). Since I do not have any experience with these papers: Do some of you have? And to which other more or less known papers are they alike?

Thomas
Title: Re: Lumijet photo paper experiences wanted
Post by: teddillard on January 05, 2011, 01:19:39 pm
My experience: HELL.  Can I say that?  :D



Seriously though...  first, I hate it, and second, why would you buy any paper you've not tested and tried, no matter how cheap the price?  Paper is like wine... 

Title: Re: Lumijet photo paper experiences wanted
Post by: Ken Doo on January 05, 2011, 01:34:04 pm
Quote from: teddillard on January 05, 2011, 01:19:39 pm
....  Paper is like wine... 


Not quite.  The cheap/bad paper still remains an exercise in frustration from the beginning of the roll to the end... Keep drinking the bad/cheap wine and it doesn't taste so bad after a few glasses/bottles... 

 ;D
Title: Re: Lumijet photo paper experiences wanted
Post by: teddillard on January 05, 2011, 02:37:29 pm
Quote from: kdphotography on January 05, 2011, 01:34:04 pm
Not quite.  The cheap/bad paper still remains an exercise in frustration from the beginning of the roll to the end... Keep drinking the bad/cheap wine and it doesn't taste so bad after a few glasses/bottles... 

 ;D

nicely played, my friend, nicely played...  :D
Title: Re: Lumijet photo paper experiences wanted
Post by: Ernst Dinkla on January 05, 2011, 02:48:01 pm
Quote from: kdphotography on January 05, 2011, 01:34:04 pm
Keep drinking the bad/cheap wine and it doesn't taste so bad after a few glasses/bottles... 

 ;D

By the time you learned to drink it and get the taste for it the vineyard may be ploughed under. As I understand it Lumijet White Velvet is still stocked on big rolls but no longer manufactured, the other varieties not even stocked anymore at HM. The reason why I removed all Lumijet qualities but the White Velvet from SpectrumViz.


met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst Dinkla

New: Spectral plots of +190 inkjet papers:
http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm
Title: Re: Lumijet photo paper experiences wanted
Post by: sm906 on January 05, 2011, 04:00:50 pm
Quote from: teddillard on January 05, 2011, 01:19:39 pm
Paper is like wine...  

Good to know we all like wine, especially the good ones! But, you know, me personally I do not only drink the Chateaux Petrus, not only because of the money...there are too much "little" wines out there worth the tasting and probably drinking.

If I got Ernst right, at least the Velvet is worth a try? Even if the bottles will be empty some day, who cares.

Thomas
Title: Re: Lumijet photo paper experiences wanted
Post by: teddillard on January 06, 2011, 09:00:26 am
Quote from: sm906 on January 05, 2011, 04:00:50 pm
If I got Ernst right, at least the Velvet is worth a try?

...not sure how you get that conclusion, but whatever makes you happy!   ::)