Digital BW, The Print

Fellows,
I´m very greatfull to have learned a lot about digital fine art 
printing from you guys on the piezo list and on this list here.
Without your generous attitude to share your experiences, I  
never came where I am now, maybe I had given up the whole 
thing  caused by diappointing experiences in the beginning of my 
attempts.

When this list was established, I asked myself how I could 
contribute a bit. After having learned that a couple of list 
members favour German Fine Art papers, but had some 
difficulties to get special informations caused by the language 
barrier I offered to modarate some questions and informations.

I can´t guarantee that everything I tell is "the truth" though I try my 
best to get true informations.
But I´m neither a paper specialist, nor am I a chemist., so I can´t 
check what Hahnemuhle or Schoellershammer poeple tell me.

I´m no photograph, I´m a cardiologist, I don´t earn my living with 
paper testing. I can buy the paper I prefer myself. So I´m not 
forced to tell anything about printing-qualities of papers what is 
not my personal impression, which is subjective and may 
change over time. In the moment I favour the H. papers (for 
portfolio printing), though they are amongst the most expensive.

I reported on Schoellershammer papers too, which are the 
strongest competitors to H. in the German market. I got the 
impression, that their here called "Watercolor rough" paper 
(seemes to be Velvet in US) is very near to Photo Rag, I ordered 
a package, but I haven´t got it yet to try more sheets (I had only 
two sheets from a sample pack - printing without profile).

If anyone has got the impression, that my view is distorted, let 
me know online or offline.
Thanks for your help and thanks for listening.
Bernd