Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Josh for sharing your personal experience with this paper. 

Funny I was on the phone with someone from Premier Art (just after
posting) asking about printer settings and ICC for some color work.
Obviously they recommended custom profiles for the best results but
suggested Epson Ultrasmooth as a very good start point and told me
they where the ones selling the paper to Espon. I did some more
searches here and it has been mentioned in earlier (2005) posts here.
I guess Epson does not make much paper.

For the 205gsm, the VFA Espon profile works better and VFA paper
setting also. With USFA paper setting it overloads the paper. And the
Epson PA Scrapbook profile just does not print as nicely as with the
VFA profile. Again talking about color here.

Paul's curve for B/W 3MK with QTR are what I use for this paper. 

Thanks again,

Denis


> Paul Roark might respond too, because I know he uses the 325gsm
version of
> the Premier Art Hotpress, but from my testing with QTR Create ICC, the
> profiles from the Premier paper and Epson Ultrasmooth Fine Art are
> practically identical.  They also look identical.  The absolutely no
way I'd
> be able to identify which is which if someone tested me.  I use them
> interchangeable with my QTR Create ICC profiles.