Digital BW, The Print

>Message: 3
>   Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:09:41 -0800
>   From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>
>Subject: Re: Hahnemuhle Photo Rag UpSide
>
>>Does anyone have a sure-fire way of telling which is the 
>>coated side? 
>
>The tip of your tongue will stick on the coated side.  
>
>Paul 
>http://www.PaulRoark.com

all,
Another less "distasteful" method is with scotch tape.

Burnish a piece of scotch tape onto the corner of a sheet.  
Pull up the tape and if the tape has a white residue on it, this is the
coated side. If the tape pulls up cleanly, ie, with maybe only a few cotton
fibers, then this is the uncoated side.

NB: the white residue is essentially some of the coating pigment.

THis method works everytime.

thanks, HTH
RObert Rex
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