Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "colingruk" 
<cconway@b...> wrote:
> A dealer has set up in northern Greece importing Hahnemuele, Moab, 
> and some other papers.  Stocks and range are limited but I bought a 
> 50 sheet box of A3+ (SuperB?) Photorag Satin for Euro 282 (US$344), 
> as they had no A3.
> 
> I recently printed a sunrise image of Queen Victoria at Bryce taken 
> this spring on William Turner using BO that I will enter for the 
next 
> UK print exchange.  I printed this image on my 1290 using UT2 and 
> Eboni, neutral setting with PR curve. It was dreadful!  A metallic 
> sheen from whichever whichway I viewed it.  QTR users seem to like 
> the paper but has anyone successfully used it with UT2?  If so how 
> did they do it?
> 
> I printed the image as BO and found the velvet setting for this 
image 
> better than the others, and I am really impressed.  But how to use 
> this paper for other techniques, including (sorry OT) colour?
> 
> It is so expensive to test on, so some help would be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Colin

Wish I could help, but so far there is still only one dealer of this 
paper here, and I'm still going to wait for my prefered dealer to be 
allowed to sell it. I know a bunch of other people that are waiting 
for this same thing. If Hahnemuhle wants to sell this stuff, they 
really need to make it more available, I don't like to be forced to 
get any product from only one dealer because if you really have to 
have that product, they have you at a disadvantage and can charge 
whatever they want.

Jim if you read this, any word yet?