Digital BW, The Print

That's interesting. I've used a whole lot of this paper in the last 
couple of months with the 44" and 24 rolls and have never seen any of 
this loose paper that you describe. This and the Soft Texture has 
always functioned flawlessly for me. I have had no flaking of any 
kind in several rolls used. But I totally believe what you describe 
because I've experienced that with William Turner before. It could be 
dull trimming blades in the factory or something. I certainly hope it 
doesn't turn out to be a repeating problem. I am just getting used to 
this paper. It is a bit smoother than Photo rag and with noticeably 
less OBA content, making it perfect for a lot of things. Is anyone 
testing the new Crane? I have a few sheets on order just out of 
curiousity. I believe it will be similar to Premier Art Hotpress but 
I'm wondering how the color will look with monochrome.

John

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "tims8686" 
<tims8686@y...> wrote:
> FYI....Recently I started using Innova Smooth Photo Cotton 315 in 
17"rolls for my Epson 4000 
> printer, a decision based upon severe testing of many papers by a 
Kalamazoo friend Tom 
> Brayne, also a member of this forum.  I love the look and feel of 
the paper, and the tonality it 
> offers, but I'm having a problem I hadn't planned upon.  When 
Innova trims the paper, small 
> shards and bits of the stuff get caught up in the roll along the 
edges and when that part 
> comes into the printer these stick to the surface, get printed 
over, then when the print comes 
> out the pieces fall off and show up as white spots, not unlike the 
dust spots we all knew and 
> loved in conventional darkroom work.  So far I've gone through two 
rolls and the inside of my 
> printer had many of these paper particles sitting around the print 
head area and such.  
> Yesterday it took me roughly 8 prints to get three good ones that 
didn't have this problem, 
> so I switched back to Epson Smooth Fine Art just to get the job 
done, although I don't like the 
> warmish tone compared to the Innova white.  I also had to do a 
nozzle clean as I think some 
> of these pieces had gotten caught up in the print head itself.  Not 
completely sure about this 
> one, but I think that's what happened.  
> 
> This paper is very nice, but until Innova can figure out how to 
trim the paper clean I'm going 
> to be very careful when using it, and may well try to clean and 
blow off the paper before it 
> gets into the printer, and will have to do this before each print.  
What a pain.