Digital BW, The Print

Peter,

>You're saying that the flakes are just left over from the 
>manufacturing process but the coating that's on the paper is 
>solidly adhered to it.  Can someone confirm this?   

My understanding is that white spots that we refer to as "flaking" can
be caused by both reasons.  There can be residual mfg dust.  But the
coating itself flaking off is also a very real problem.

A paper vendor told me in a phone conversation last summer that the
reason there is a general correlation between high dmax and high
flaking, is because both are related to the density of the coating. 
The denser the coating the better the dmax and also the greater the
chance of flaking.  This is why H. papers are famous for both.  This
vendor said that the reason their papers have slightly less dmax than
H. papers is because they wanted to lessen flaking, and settled on
what they thought was a good balance between the two.

Regards,
Clayton


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