Digital BW, The Print

I've been using Epson's Hot Press Natural myself and love it but will have to change to something much cooler for my current series but not sure what. Any suggestions?

In the meantime, I proofed my latest work with 2 boxes of stuff I had on hand that was given to me, though I hate glossy/lustre plastc-like prints as it is. One was Ilford's Galerie Smooth Pearl Paper and the other is Ilford's Galerie Classic Pearl Paper. I noticed a huge difference between the two.The Smooth Pearl had a substantially thicker base and I had no problems with the tones of the image matching what was on my monitor. The Classic Pearl is horribly thin with a strange grainy coating on the back of the paper. What was worse was that the images printed muddy and dark no matter what I did to adjust the image via PS.

I don't see why or how a different ICC profile would make a difference and more importantly, why would Ilford call these papers almost by the same name?

-AnnMarie
www.annmarietornabene.net

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Seth Rossman <seth@...> wrote:
>
>  >Is this better or worse than Epson Enhanced Matte?
> 
> Archival Matte=Enhanced Matte=Ultra Premium Presentation Matte. Archival 
> Matte was NOT archival.
> 
> The current totally misleading marketing from Epson is marketing this 
> paper as "Ultra Premium" and their 5-star, best of the line rating.
> 
> The thing I use it for is proofing/testing prints that are going onto 
> Hot Press Natural.
> 
> Seth
>