Digital BW, The Print

Thomas Keesling wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>
> <<The actual thickness of those papers you mentioned can be a bit
> misleading....I've never fully understood how papers get rated...>>
>
> I'm baffled, too, and wish there were a better way to categorize
> them. I suppose the ideal would be to have both the weight and the
> caliper readily available on all papers.

Might we need to specify another parameter? Call it 'stiffness'
perhaps?

I can imagine two papers with the same weight and thickness -- one of
them stiff, and the other one limp.

Peter Marquis-Kyle