Digital BW, The Print

My personal & similar woes occurred with Entrada Natural - both flaking & ink 
crystallization where the blacks were dense.  Many of us have found a favorite paper from 
the standpoint of D max & tone, only to find that the smaller manufacturers or packagers 
have trouble with cutting residue, flaking, ink crystallization, etc.  

For such reasons I've recently settled for BW on the paper that nobody else seems to like - 
Ultrasmooth.  The paper base is almost the same tone as a 'classic' gelatin-silver paper 
like Portriga, the blacks are as good as one can get with any paper & 4000/QTR, and you 
encounter no production errors/flaking problems.  

And if you buy the newly-available 13x19 & 17x22 sheets, you get 325g paper stock with 
coating on both sides, and no curling.  The high cost of the paper is offset by the fact that 
you can recycle imperfect prints as work-print paper.  It's handy that the 17x22 comes in 
bulletproof packaging - no more corners dented in shipping - & that it makes 2 11x17 
sheets.  

The sheets are covered with an odd white dust that isn't present on the one-sided roll 
paper, but it's easy to wipe off & doesn't seem to affect the print.