But there is still something that attracts me about the silver print, and in particular those on unglazed glossy surfaces which have a brightness and longer scale than platinum or other matt prints don’t possess. Fortunately you can now get similar results more or less “out of the box<\/em>” with inkjet printers such as the Epson R2400 on my left as I type.<\/p>\n Epson’s own papers don’t quite come up to the job, although its ‘Premium Glossy<\/em>‘ gives a reasonable approach to a resin-coated silver print. Fortunately there are now several third-party papers available that can give fine black and whites to more or less match the best darkroom fibre-base papers as well as the rather easier job of making good colour prints.<\/p>\n The paper I’ve been using today is Permajet Fibre Base Gloss<\/em> (PFBG), which they describe as an acid-free mould made fine art paper with a textured surface. It would actually be useful to have fuller technical information than they care to give which seems largely designed to hide the fact that it is very similar – if not identical – to products available under at least two other brand names. It is an excellent product\u00a0 which I’m told comes from a British paper mill and is made from alpha cellulose with a titanite rather than a baryta layer and a special microporous gloss coating.<\/p>\n I used the EpsonR2400 printer with its K3 inks, in ABW mode, but it took me a little while to sort out how to get good black and white prints that were more or less a perfect match to my screen image.\u00a0 The printer has black and two gray inks, and in ABW mode also uses small amounts of coloured inks, enabling a choice of print colour.<\/p>\n The bottom line for most photographers is whether these prints are as good as the black and white prints we used to make in the darkroom.<\/p>\n Comparing these new prints with selenium toned exhibition prints I made over ten years ago, and my answer has to be yes and no. Most of the prints benefit from the more precise control offered on the computer, but a few of the darker and more moody images just have a little extra richness in the older prints. It’s a small difference, and one that I suspect might be bridged with a more sophisticated approach to printing using software such as\u00a0 Bowhaus’s IJC\/OPM<\/a> (or the shareware Quadtone RIP<\/a>) when I have more time to experiment, although it may also need a spectrophotometer to get the most out of these.<\/p>\n You can see the results of my printing session on show in English Carnival<\/a><\/strong> at the Shoreditch Gallery<\/em> at The Juggler, 5 Hoxton Market, London, N1 6HG from 29 Sept- 31 Oct 2008 (Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat 10-4pm, closed Sundays. ) You are welcome to the opening on Thursday\u00a0 2 Oct, 6.30-8.30pm.\u00a0 This is one of over a hundred exhibitions and events in London as a part of photomonth 08<\/strong> (this year’s web site with full details should be on line shortly)\u00a0 making this the largest photography festival in the UK.<\/p>\n A further post, Using ABW on PFBG<\/a>, looks at Epson ABW<\/em> printing and the challenges in getting prints using PFBG in detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve just spent a day making black and white prints, printing from black and white negatives I took in the 1990s. 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