Digital BW, The Print

I recently went to Epson Ultrasmooth Fine Art for an OBA-free paper and 
was impressed with it:  good image, impeccable quality, etc.

Having heard that Premiere Hot Press was the same paper, I ordered 150 
sheets of it.  It looks like the EUS, measures like it and their 
profiles are essentially identical.

The Premiere paper, however, shows *terrible* quality control: bad 
edges, miscuts, insects smashed in the coating (really) and, worst of 
all, radom scuffing of the coating that is quite visible in black areas 
of the print.  

At the same time I bought a box of the Premiere Hot Press Textured and 
these sheets were so badly cut and stiff and deformed that I had 
difficulty loading them into the printer.  It is a very rough surfaced, 
ugly, badly finished paper.

So, if you're thinking about a Premiere paper, watch out.  I was 
shocked.