"Gordon Moat" wrote in message
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Frank Pittel wrote:

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In my never humble opinion one of the problems with B&W inkjet
printing is the lack of silver in the inks. By themselves the digital
b&W prints look good but when placed next to a silver print the
difference is clear.
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Great observation. It is interesting when I pick up paper samples at
the printing industry trade show that metallic inks are used for many
of the B/W image samples. You can see this in some photography
books that use either duotone or tritone printing for B/W images.
While this is far removed from inkjet printing, it shows that the
commercial printing world understands (somewhat) the look of true
B/W images. Of course, these commercially printed efforts still only
approach the look of true B/W, but do not match it.


Kodak makes a metallic colour printing paper too. I have exhibition prints
made on it sometimes, and it looks very good.


Peter