Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Allan Chen 
<allan@k...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>      This isn't strictly B&W related, but there's a lot of 
expertise 
> here so...
>      We have an Epson 9600 in our general public (not 
printing/graphics 
> oriented) lab.  We've been feeding EEM through it so far, as it 
meets 
> the rather pedestrian needs of our main user group.  However, we'd 
like 
> to start offering something archival, as we want to market to some 
fine 
> art folks.
>      Do you have any suggestions as to an alternative to EEM that 
is 
> relatively affordable (EEM is about $110 per 100' roll, so 
somethign in 
> the $175 range is probably the highest we could consider, in all 
> reality)?  GSM isn't an issue (EEM hasn't seem to light weight to 
our 
> users so far).  Paper brightness is, though, as I don't know if our 
> users will understand the conflicting issues of brightness and 
archival 
> quality.  Is there anything that would come close?
>      I'm just not familiar enough with the wide-format paper 
options out 
> there to really know, especially once you throw in the price factor 
(the 
> papers I choose for my 1280 are way too expensive to be options).
> 
> thanks,
> allan

This might be a difficult thing to find. I suggest sending an email 
to the following places:

Jim at http://www.shadesofpaper.com (not sure what to recommend)
Diana at http://www.hawkmtnpaper.com (not sure what to recommend)
Adam at http://www.breathingcolor.com (the Sterling paper might fit 
your needs)

You might need to fix the URL for Hawk Mountain.