Digital BW, The Print

Over at www.epson.com you can read:

"Artists and photographers require a variety of media surfaces for 
their professional work. Epson is proud to introduce its first 
cotton paper for the desktop market, Velvet Fine Art Paper. With a 
base that is 100% cotton rag, buffered and acid free, this paper is 
coated with our popular Enhanced Matte coating, giving exceptional 
color gamut and high D-Max."

Over at www.inkjetart.com you can read:

"EPSON Velvet Fine Art Paper - This paper uses the original Somerset 
Velvet paper base (from St. Cuthberts Mill), but the coating is 
totally different, and this is done by Epson."

I have no way of independently verifying this information....but, 
the paper looks and feels like Somerset Photo Enhanced paper and 
prints like Epson Enhanced Matte. 

Ron 



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, sdmey4@a... 
wrote:
> In a message dated 8/31/2003 8:49:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tom@f... 
> writes:
> 
> > If you like the way your images look on EAM/EEM, you might use 
Epson 
> > >Velvet Fine Art paper for your print sales....it has the same 
> > >coating, but the brightners appear to be stable and the paper 
is 
> > >acid free.  This paper is the same paper as Somerset Photo 
Enhanced, 
> > >but it has the Epson coating.
> > 
> I doubt very much much Epson is Buying Sumerset Enhanced and using 
an"Epson 
> coating" This rebranding of papers with a new name and the 
resellers claiming 
> they use there own special coating turned out to be all BS. 
> There where several renamed versions of the entire Hahnemuhle line 
of papers, 
> and they where and are all the same regardless who's name was on 
the package.
> Even Ilford's lastest Fine art paper is Hahnemuhles William Turner!
> 
> 
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