Digital BW, The Print

Premier Art Hot Press 205 (see
http://www.atlex.com/premier/fine-art-205.htm) is one of my favorite matte
papers, in part because it is OBA-free, does well on my fade tests, and is
cheap.  (I only use smooth surface papers.)

I recently purchased a 24" roll and found good and bad news.  The good news
is that the dmax is higher than my sheets -- 1.65 on my 7500 with Eboni.
The bad news is that the coating is a bit different than the sheets I've
had, so I had to re-profile it.  

The problem seems to be that the new (?) coating does not accept quite as
much volume of the light inks that I have to pour in to get dot-free high
lights on the old, non-variable-dot 7500.  This might affect the older
printers that use the Piezo or FS-Y very light inks.  I doubt newer printers
and inksets would notice any difference.  Once I backed off the lightest ink
a bit, the paper printed very well.  Overall, I prefer the higher dmax of
the new coating.  But, to get a smooth print did require re-profiling.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com