Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Walker Blackwell <forums@...> wrote:
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> HPR has the best dMax and least flaking and drag-line (ie: Innova  
> Cotton Rag) issues of any Cotton rag paper out there with Piezography  
> inks on matte paper. That's why I use it. But it has so many  
> permanence problems that I vote to focus on some other more stable  
> paper...

right now I'm trying to move my HPR customers to Canson Rag Photographique 310, or Premiere Art Generations Fine Art Alise.
The Canson gets the slight performance nod, but is more expensive. The Premiere Art really close in performance, and more economical. The Canson coating reacts with warms inks "prettier" like the H coatings, but that's subtle. Both have more robust, less delicate, coatings...
Both bear strong resemblance to HPR.
We need some initial results on any paper we decide on as a group standard I suppose, so this could take a while to work out.

Any interest outside this list that can be guilt tripped into membership should be hit hard. The wide format list is disgraceful, Luminos Landscape list and Large Format list equally shamefully non-responsive. Better still, it seems to me, any organizations we have relationships with should be hit for larger membership contributions.
Tyler