Digital BW, The Print

Hello Michael,

>...I've not yet settled on 
>exhibition papers (although MatteBW will be one) and am now wanting to 
>find a paper that's a little warmer, but not a full "Natural" warmth. 
>Someplace inbetween is what I'm looking for and it has to be acid & 
>lignin free. Some suggestons for a not too warm paper? Thanks.

PhotoRag and VFA are two very fine and popular papers that are
slightly cream colored, while still very bright (they have OBAs). 
They also render the K inks moderately warm compared to MatteBW. 
There are also many other papers with similar qualities.  In fact,
this moderately warm is the broadest category of paper.  Seems to me
of all the matte papers available, the BW papers are the minority,
followed by the "natural" versions on the warm side.  So just about
anything that doesn't have "BW" or "Natural" in the name will do.  I
mentioned VFA and PR because they have the best dmax and are among the
most popular.  

Please see article #5 "The Great Paper chase" at the link below.  It
describes about 25 different matte papers and lists the important
attributes.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm