Azo replacement announced

[Dean Cookson]

Folks,
Michael Smith announced the Azo replacement over in the Azo forum a little while ago. His post is here

[Gary L. Quay]

Cool! Time to break out the amidol.

--Gary

[Andrew O'Neill]

So, has anyone used this paper yet?

[Oren Grad]

Andy, it's not available yet:

http://www.apug.org/forums/showthread.php?t=32982

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thanks Oren.

[Jay DeFehr]

Wow! Check the dates. That announcement was made in January, and the last post to that thread was made in March.

Jay

[Oren Grad]

Jay, the APUG thread I linked above is a much more recent update.

[Jay DeFehr]

Thanks, Oren. Sounds like they're getting it dialed in. I hope the new paper is available before I run out of Azo.

Jay

[Ken Lee]

Has anyone done a survey on the dMax of various papers, including Azo ?

I don't own any sensitometry equipment, but I suspect that the combination I am using today (Epson Ultrachrome K3 inks on Epson Premium Glossy paper) may have a dMax equal to or greater the Silver papers, toned in Selenium, on which I printed back in the 1970's.

[sanking]

Has anyone done a survey on the dMax of various papers, including Azo ?

I don't own any sensitometry equipment, but I suspect that the combination I am using today (Epson Ultrachrome K3 inks on Epson Premium Glossy paper) may have a dMax equal to or greater the Silver papers, toned in Selenium, on which I printed back in the 1970's.

Pehaps there has been a full study of this, but if so I have not seen it.

My own work with AZO gives an absolute maximum of about log 2.20, after selenium toning. Several of the contemporary silver papers will give somewhat higher Dmax, up to 2.3 or even 2.4. I don't have any idea how your Epson inkjet prints compare, but if you send me a sample I will be happy to take a reading and post the finding. I doubt very much that your Epson prints will have Dmax of 2.3 or higher, but I could be wrong.


Sandy