Digital BW, The Print

Thanks so much. So do folks here regularly use these watercolor papers?
When are they preferable to "regular" matte papers?

Scott

koloshor wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Scott McLoughlin
> <scott@a...> wrote:
> > And what are the alternatives. Is there some basic taxonomy of papers
> > on the Web somewhere, hopefully with pics and brands and samples?
>
> There may be such thing, but I haven't seen it. Perhaps at an artists
> supply...
>
> Anyway, watercolor paper is paper made for watercolor painting. It's
> thick, but the fibers are loose and natural. It's very absorbant, so
> it can suck up plenty of watercolor paint. It's generally pretty rough
> (even the "smooth" varieties) to give the paintbrush something to
> react against. And it's made in a very "neutral" fashion, it doesn't
> contain any tension or stress in the paper, so that when you get it
> wet, it's flat again when it dries, it doesn't permanently deform,
> wrinkle or warp (smoother drawing, printing, and writing papers are
> "stressed" from being flattened with high pressure rollers or
> stretched when they dry, so that they suffer permanent deformation
> when they get wet and the fibers relax).
>
> Watercolor papers used for inkjet printing are usually coated, to
> limit how much ink they can absorb, or they'd suck down more ink than
> an inkjet printer can typically output.
>
> Other inkjet papers are "matte" or coated with glossy coatings. In
> those cases, the paper is highly processed, rolled very flat,
> "candled", etc. Such papers tend to be thinner than watercolor papers,
> but denser. They're more like drawing paper.
>
>
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