Digital BW, The Print

Tony,

> Regarding paper for your coffee table book.. Inksupply (MIS) 
> do ship outside the US. Bockingford double sided is 190 gsm 
> and is available here in Australia in A3+. My own experience 
> of Bockingford is that it does not deliver a good enough dmax 
> for photographic images.
> 
> Somerset is not available in a double sided version as far as I know.

Thanks for those comments. I've also been looking at the brand
new (at least here in Australia) Ilford Gallerie Smooth
Heavyweight (200gsm) DS matte. So far only A4 (it may come
in larger but I haven't tried to find it). I've enjoyed using
the other ilford smooth so thought to give this a go. Similar 
problems - low dmax (to my eyes although I haven't personally
profiled it) and not really heavy enough. 

> You could consider some of the Hahnemulle double sided papers 
> or Hawk Mountain products.

I'm finally going to give Hahnemuhle a try. I've been put off thus 
far by repeated reports of flaking and whether it could stand regular 
page turning in book form: Tony/Jim/anyone? Oh, and price ;-)

Hawk Mountain's Condor Britewhite (the only DS I could find)
looks interesting - is that the one you were thinking of?

> We have printed for a number of books and I'd suggest that 
> you consider the type of binding you will be using as 
> traditional bookbinding requires that the paper grain runs 
> vertically in relation to the binding.

Hmm, nothing about that from the binders I've talked to. 
Can you elaborate? 

I was going to have it section stitched (number of 
section/signatures dependent on the paper weight), signatures 
glued then hard covered. Any suggestions would be very
gratefully received (it's been hard to find anyone who has
done anything like this before - I'm assuming there's good
reasons why :-)

Thanks muchly,
Robert