Digital BW, The Print

At 05:37 AM Sunday 4/15/2007, you wrote:
>I just got a box of the Premier Art Matte BW paper and am not quite so
>impressed with it. The paper is bright white and 2 sided, but it has
>some curl, and isn't packaged all that well so the ends and corners
>aren't flat. Curled paper is definitely an issue with the 3800.

I cut some off a roll and it flattened out surprisingly well.

>I was also going to give sparrowhawk paper a try, but after hearing
>about speckling I'm not so sure if I will. The others to consider are
>Moab Kayenta and Red River Polar Matte.

I've had the Kayenta lose its brightness very quickly in a shaded room, unframed.

(BTW, is it possible to feed long pieces of paper cut from a roll into the 3800? I do this with my 2100 and the lack of a roll feeder puts me off the 3800.)

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