Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernst Dinkla" <E.Dinkla@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Perma Jet Portrait Classic


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Kobrin" <skobrin@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Perma Jet Portrait Classic
>
>
> > Politics and free markets aside, my original question was
> whether
> > anyone knows of anything in the Perma Jet coating that would
> make it
> > worth more that the basic H. rag.
> >
> > Steve
>
> First of all I'm surprised that Hahnemuhle delivers raw
substrate
> to be coated by another party for sale outside the Hahnemuhle
> distribution chain. Hahnemuhle's paper mill couldn't keep up
with
> demand for their own channels (including the rebranded papers).
> I'm told that the mill is the bottleneck in HM's production,
> could even be that they buy raw stock from other mills.
> There's much more profit in selling inkjet coated paper than in
> selling the raw stock. Enough old paper mills in Europe that
can
> deliver the raw stuff for low prices but not the right coating
> (Lana, Magnani, Fabrioni, Schut).
>
> Few coatings rival the quality of the Hahnemuhle coating. It
has
> its flaws but in general it is the best for image quality.
>
> So I guess it is either a rebranded Hahnemuhle paper or a
> substrate from another company but then it should be good news
> that the Perma Jet coating is as good as it sounds.
>
> Ernst

Reading the MIS description on their site I get the picture:
Hahnemuhle doesn't coat the papers in house, as far as the
information goes it is coated in Switzerland by a firm that coats
for more manufacturers (Sihl among them). The coating itself is
HM's development though. Big paper rolls are returned to Dassel
for confectioning for the Hahnemuhle chain or go directly to
rebranders (USA mainly) for confectioning. MIS describes what
Hahnemuhle does but gives the coating a name.

There's one way to check whether this explanation is BS: print
both papers with the same profiles and settings. If the
difference is small then it still could be a batch difference, if
there's no difference then there's no difference.

Ernst