Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "olaf ringdahl" <o.ringdahl@...> 
wrote:
>...spent most of my life printing air-dried glossy in the darkroom...
...
> I would appreciate any suggestions, including alternate papers having the same, or 
nearly the same specs as MSR - 100% Rag, acid free and no brighteners. 

I'm curious why you would make those specs a requirement when the years of papers you 
used in the darkroom were nowhere close to rag, and most had OBAs as well. Even the 
papers we hand coated with our precious platinum weren't that pristene sometimes.
I don't mean that argumentatively, just curious.

But to answer your question, I don't think there are any other papers that meet those 
specs, at least not a photo type surface for PK use.

The larger issue, I find the market changing so quickly to people without your experience 
that this level of gloss differential seems like a dream. Though I think these papers are 
very useful, I agree the state of the art is still far from "analogue" quality in some respects 
and you only have to put one of these next to a good silver print to see it. But how many 
here even have one?
However we do have these papers now, and they are evolving before our eyes, things are 
getting better fast.
Tyler