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Re: Best paper for custom-bound photo books

2006-01-10 by scott_now_coming

How about Premier Premium Matte? 110 gram weight and 5.5 mil 
thickness. And, coated BOTH sides, and inexpensive ro boot.

http://www.photo-warehouse.com/premier.html

Scroll down to near the end of page.

Scott


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" 
<dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dahaal" 
> <dahaal@y...> wrote:
> >
> > To answer my own question again, I found a thread from October 
that
> > starts here:
> > 
> > 
> 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/message/685
> 28
> > 
> > that has some good info on papers and spraying for use in books.
> >
> 
> One thing in one of those links it showed which way the grain of 
the 
> paper was supposed to go to work well. From looking around, there 
are 
> not many papers that really would work in a real bound book. Almost 
> every inkjet paper is too thick. My opinion is that around 6 mill 
is 
> the thickest you would really want to go, else the pages will be 
> difficult to turn, and a 50 page book would be very thick. 
Mitsubishi 
> has a double sided semigloss paper that is about 6mil, but I've 
been 
> told it does not work well with pigment inks. That said, I'm still 
> looking.
>

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