Digital BW, The Print

Yes, the Innova Soft Texture is very similar to Hahnemuhle German Etching 
paper. They are both archival alpha cellulose papers with a wonderful texture 
and thickness. The texture is what I perceive as halfway between German 
Etching and Hahnemuhle Photorag, which are themselves pretty close in 
surface. This may end up being my  all time favourite paper. It is what I always 
wished Somerset Velvet or German Etching could have been. This paper 
seems to have the strength of Somerset and the beauty of G. Etching.

As I write this I am doing a show for one of my clients on the Soft Texture, 
which is in color with Ultrachrome. This paper just works fantastic with 
Ultrachrome. It is one of the easiest papers I have evey worked with. The 
gamut is great, the blacks are great, it is tough. I just don't have anything 
negative to say about it at all. I always loved German Etching too since I first 
used it about 6 years ago. But I had trouble with the blacks chipping off and 
the surfacing scratching. I've had none of this with Innova. This past week I did 
about 25 small black and white things with these Innova papers and I am sold 
on them 100%. And as you know the price is right.

The Soft Cotton is actually slightly finer in texture than H Photo Rag and very 
slightly thinner than the PR 308. I think they really researched these products 
because it is quite nice to have a very smooth 100% white rag to work with 
with all size images. I am very pleased at how it functions with even things as 
small as 8x10 for portfolios. It could be a little thicker but the price and coating 
have sold me.

The new one, the Cold Press Fine Art I belive is similar to W. Turner but I 
haven't ordered any yet. Since William Turner is one of my all time favourite 
media I am very curious to try the Cold PFA.

Jim Doyle has been great in letting us sample these great new papers. And I 
plan on doing a lot of business with him this year because of his knowledge 
and enthuasism with these great papers.

Sorry I don't know anything about the Intelicoat media.

John ( still printing at 10:35 pm)




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Terry Ritz" <
t.ritz@a...> wrote:
> I just received an Innova sample pack from Jim and was curious. Is Innova
> Soft Texture similar to Hahnemuhle German Etching and Innova Cold Press 
Art
> similar to William Turner? Although I have some Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, 
I've
> never seen German Etching or William Turner in person.
> 
> A second, but related question. How have you found Intelicoat's Textured
> Fine Art paper (Magiclee FAP225-T) perform relative to the Innova and
> Hahnemuhle papers above?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry.