Digital BW, The Print

At 03:04 PM Friday 1/4/2008, you wrote:
>I'd love to use a
>non-OBA matte paper but unfortunately I've yet to find one that has as
>good a dmax as HPR and VFA. I've tested lots of papers and there's a
>noticeable difference between these two and the others that I'm not
>willing to give up. There are some new ones I haven't tried yet. 
>Does anyone know if any of them have as good a dmax?

Entrada Natural is pretty good.

I might add that initially I had a really bad flaking problem with Entrada, but then with a hake brush and a cyclone blower bulb, fixed the problem ... but then yesterday I had more prints that flaked than didn't, even with the brush routine. Don't know what the story is there ... I love everything about the paper except for this occasional problem. I love the slight texture of the Entrada more than the smooth Hot Press papers - it resembles PhotoRag's texture very closely, but with a more cream OBA-free colour ... and douible-sided. It's strange that I can go through a box with no problems and then strike a bad patch of flaking. 

Richard 
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