GALERIE GOLD Fibre Silk

Marc Leest

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• Nov 14, 2007

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Has anyone tried this paper yet as a final substrate ? To me, It would be superb for cyanotype or VDB. Any comments or thoughts ?

 

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• Nov 14, 2007

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Nerdifant said:

Has anyone tried this paper yet as a final substrate ? To me, It would be superb for cyanotype or VDB. Any comments or thoughts ?

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Isn't that an inkjet paper? I've heard of people using inkjet paper for carbon printing but not for cyanotype or VDB.

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• Nov 15, 2007

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Yes it is a new inkjet paper, I saw some of it in use by a pro print lab the other day and was very impressed, will try it out myself when I can

 

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• Nov 17, 2007

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Remarkely, I discovered that HARMAN ltd. is marketing a FB type paper under their own brandname, not Ilford. ???
Is this the same paper. Getting a little bit confused now.

 

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• Nov 17, 2007

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Nerdifant said:

Remarkely, I discovered that HARMAN ltd. is marketing a FB type paper under their own brandname, not Ilford. ???
Is this the same paper. Getting a little bit confused now.

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No. Not the same as the paper referred to earlier in this thread.

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• Nov 23, 2007

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Harman Technology and Ilford GMBH are now different companies. Harman manufactures a line of baryta based inkjet papers as does Ilford. The Harman papers are the FB AI gloss paper and two matte papers. The Ilford paper is the Gallerie Gold Fibre Silk. I am in the midst of testing these and the other baryta based injet papers. Still very early in the process for an eventual View Camera article. The Harman paper is smoother than the Ilford but, from the few images I have printed so far both provide very pleasing, slightly different images.

 

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• Apr 8, 2008

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I missed the early boat on this one. I just tried some of the Gold Fiber Silk and I like it a lot. I've also used the Harman Glossy FB. I find the surface a little too smooth and plasticy for my taste on the Harman. Nice, but not great (despite the endless hype). The Gold Fiber Silk is 1/2 the price of the Harman paper. The only thing I like better about the Harman is that it comes in 17x25 sheets rather than 17x22. Nice to be able to make a full-frame 16x24 print with my 3800 rather than a 14x21.

 

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• Apr 8, 2008

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GFS

I use it now regularly mostly for B&W. Gives deep black tones. Nice paper.

 

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I use the gold fibre silk with an epson 4880. At Penn State, we have to use a RIP to keep track of ink/paper chargeback to the students, so we had to make a custom CMYK profile (Colorburst does not use RGB profiles, which are all that the manufacturer supplies). After a significant amount of work on the part of our IT staff, we are getting beautiful prints with this paper.