What the reporter didn't say, which is understandable because he had only so much room to play with and it would be a relatively minor point for the NYT's readers, is that Carl's inkjets show more detail because he uses inkjets to make enlargements, whereas his Pt/Pd prints are contact prints. There are two things going on. First, whether you're printing analog or inkjet, enlarging makes fine spatial detail easier to see, albeit at some expense in subtlety of rendering - most people can see details with the naked eye in a 14x34 that they would need a loupe to discern in the 7x17 contact print. And second, when the contact print is Pt/Pd on art paper rather than silver gelatin, much of the very finest detail in the negative is effectively suppressed anyway - tonality is the great strength of Pt/Pd, not fine spatial detail.
That's all.
