Originally Posted by
DanK
I put test prints (color) with Platine and Baryta photgraphique next to each other, and they are very similar. I no longer recall why I chose the latter, but I do remember that it was a hard choice because they were very similar and very appealing.
I print with a Canon Prograf, so I don't switch black inks. The printer has both installed at all times and uses whatever mix its firmware determines, based on the medium I specify. I haven't read anything to confirm this, but watching the ink-supply monitor, it seems to me that the printer mixes them in some cases--the matte black ink is being consumed, albeit more slowly, even when I print almost entirely on non-matte papers. However, that may be wrong. Whatever it's doing, it works.