Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

>Just to clarify, is this the paper you were referring to way 
>back in October last year?

Yes, PermaJet has a line of new papers.  Jobo in the U.S. (perhaps among
others -- like MIS) will distribute the new line as well as the older ones.
The new paper that I was most impressed with was called ISC in beta.  It
will be called "Alpha" in the production versions.  It is a cotton paper
with no optical brighteners and a dmax that rivals PhotoRag.  It did not
flake when I was testing it.  I thought the beta paper was the best I'd
printed with yet.  Hopefully the production run will be just as good.

There will also be a brightened version of this paper.


<<Permajet has also sent me some papers.  They now have a winner which was
labeled "ISC" in the box I received.  It may be the best paper I've ever
used.  It is said to be cotton, buffered, and have no optical brighteners.
I have had not flaking with it yet, and it's dmax is the best of the cotton
papers, equaling EAM at 1.67 (Eboni & 1280), and beating PhotoRag (1.66) and
PremierArt/UltraSmooth (1.61).>>

>FYI  Silverprint has it in London for all the UK guys on this forum

>http://www.silverprint.co.uk/inkj22.html

So, it looks like Jobo is just waiting for US sizes to be cut.

How do the prices compare to, for example, PhotoRag, in England?

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 
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From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>

Jobo, which will do US distribution, just has European sizes, and those are
just for profiling.  The story I heard is that Permajet rejected a huge
production run.  So, they are being tough about quality control.  That's
good.  But the delivery is clearly not going to happen for a while.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com