Digital BW, The Print

Thanks.  I'm fine with rolls.  With sheets, I've considered that once I know the 
orientation of the coated side of the top sheet, I should know that the rest are 
oriented the same way, but is that a safe assumption?  (My concern is that, I 
assume, Innova papers are produced and packaged in relatively small 
quantities compared to the giants like Epson and I therefore don't know for 
sure if they're packaged by machine (in which case they'd all be packaged the 
same direction) or by hand (in which case they may not be)

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" <
deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
> 
> Chip,
> 
> If you are using a roll its easy because the coated side is to the outside of he 
> curl. If you are using sheets they are all packaged in the same order, so just 
> test the one on top and then mark all the rest. This is what I do when I cut 
> sheets down to use as tests. I actually put a pencil abreviation like SC or 
> ST,etc, on the back of each sheet. This paper IS difficult to tell!
> 
> Apart from that I always do the moistening of the fingers on a tiny corner and 
> the one that sticks is the coated side. Some people actually take a razor 
blade 
> and scratch the surface to see which side has the coating. The thing is with 
> these Innova papers the coating is so good that it is more difficult to scratch 
> off.
> 
> John