Digital BW, The Print

Well, no coated archival paper is as cheap as EAM.

The 100% rag papers that have no brigheners are Museo, Eclipse Satine Soft
White and William Turner.  They are all heavier than EAM, although the
Eclipse and Museo are much heavier.  None of these papers are as white as
EAM...in fact to my eye they are all about the same.

What the best paper is depends on what you are printing with.  I don't like
the surface of William Turner--though it gives the best blacks with PiezoBW
or MIS inks with the piezo driver.  Personally, I use Museo with PiezoBW
inks and Piezo Driver.  While this ink and paper combination only has a 1.55
dmax, it is over 2.0 when coated with my coating.  The coated Museo prints
look much better than the coated William Turner.  I'm planning to start
using MIS inks with Imageprint soon...so I will probably start to experiment
with Eclipse in that work flow.

For color work I'm using MIS Perpetual inks and once again I use either
Museo or Eclipse.  The Eclipse has both a smooth and more textured
side...coated on both sides...so that is a nice option.  Both of these
papers give better results with the MIS Perpetual and Indelible inks than
the Hahnemuhle papers (e.g., William Turner).  A quad black made with the
MIS Double Density Black ink would be fantastic on either Museo or
Eclipse...I prefer the look of this black on these papers to anything I've
ever seen on Hahnemuhle.

Oh...and...never, never...say never...its a really long time!

Robert

On 4/9/02 1:50 PM, "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...> wrote:

> Robert,
> 
> What paper do you use that has/is:
> 
> 1. No optical brightners.
> 2. 100 Percent Rag
> 3. pH. Neutral
> 4. Pure white
> 5. At least as thick as and preferably thicker than EAM Paper.
> 6. Reasonably Priced. (I print LOTS of photos.)
> 7. Archival
> 8. Never fades
> 9. Has as deep or deeper blacks as EAM?
> 
> What paper comes even close to these requirements?
> 
> Jerry
> 
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