> I don't know the particular of scanning but the physics are that a matte
is
> ALL glare. The light in the room bounces all over the surface, so you
have
> no deep shadows on matte paper, IMO. Room light bounces all over the
> surface, scattering the reflection. Matte has a texture, while glossy is
> smooth.
>
> With glossy paper, there's only a specular highlight. Give me glossy
> everytime.
Right, that makes sense -- the artifacts I was seeing when scanning matts
(and telling the scanner they were glossy) were tiny points of light; that
presumably comes from the scanner getting reflections in places it wasn't
expecting.
thanks!
-- dan
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