Digital BW, The Print

Another supplier of Japanese paper is Daniel Smith, in Seattle. I've 
used several of their Japanese papers, and find many of them very 
nice for printing with pigment inks on Epson 7000, with little dot 
gain. 
Check the paper section:  http://www.danielsmith.com/

best,
Ken Smith
www.kensmithart.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
>
> I do also belive the Hahnemuhle "Japan" paper has been cancelled. If
> there is any around Jim would probably have it. However, Digital Art
> Supplies carries a bunch of new rice papers that have all kinds of
> varieties of textures. I ordered a whole box of them as a sample
> package. I wish I have had time to test them but I haven't. In 
general
> what you achieve is a very unique texture and translulency. Some
> apparently coated while others I'm not sure about. It isn't 
expensive
> to try them though. 
> 
> Also I posted a list of good suppliers of rolls of rice paper on the
> digital large format epson list. If you did a search for rice papers
> you will find a list of the best websites where you can order them.
> Most of those are not coated, but from my experience the Japan paper
> didn't have any less dot spread than the uncoated Mulberry paper 
that
> you can get from several sources and has the best photo quality that
> I've found for a rice paper. It is what I would call semi-
translucent.
> I tape it to another sheet of matte paper to run it through any of 
the
> machines. Here are the links that I posted a while back -
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EpsonWideFormat/message/63217
> 
> John 
>