Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Jim.

> I have several colleges that are customers one of these has a 
> requirement of a book.. they print edit and bind the book for 
> the final grade. At this school this semester they made a 
> real large purchase of 13 x 19 Lumijet Double Sided Matte & a 
> small purchase of Photo Rag Duo 196
> 
> The professor came by to meet with me and I saw some of his 
> students work from Last semester! Just awesome The Lumijet 
> Matte held up real well..Than I saw the Photo Rag Books. The 
> Photo Rag Books were excellent But I also Noticed that he 
> handled them with much care. He did note to me that all of 
> the page were sprayed with the Lumijet Spray Bound by 
> Hand..ect..Just an overall better presentation..

Very interesting. So far, the only site I've found which comments
is fastback:
  http://www.fastbackbooks.com/inkjetpapers.htm
who state that
 o use matte instead of glossy for ease of binding
 o don't use OB, including EEM
 o use < 205gsm

they recommend
 - PremierArt Matte Scrapbook Photo Paper for Epson 
 - Ilford Galerie Multi Purpose InkJet Paper
 - Ilford Galerie Smooth Heavyweight Paper
 - Lumijet Portfolio Series Double-Sided Matte

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I found some comments on Mitsubishi papers as well (can't find
the positive comments but the paper is at:
  http://www.camcor.com/cgi-bin/bcatalog.cgi/area=dig&id=1048609354
and
  http://www.inkjetart.com/photo_papers/mitsubishi.html
  - Mitsubishi Diamond Jet Dual-Sided Matte

I notice Ilford has a couple of new Smooth that look possible:
 - Smooth Heavyweight Matte DS
 
http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/prod_html/galerie/htm/prod/hwm.htm
 - and for the gloss, single-sided fans, Smooth High Gloss
 
http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/prod_html/galerie/htm/prod/shg.htm

Unfortunately, getting hold of any of these from Australia seems hard
:-(

Thanks
Robert