Digital BW, The Print

I had exactly the same experience when I recently purchased a box of  
Premier Luster Rag.  Ragged edges, poor packaging, scuffed paper  
surface, warped, and very stiffly curled paper out of the box.  Never  
again.

On Nov 23, 2005, at 4:26 PM, wwodets wrote:

> 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.