Digital BW, The Print

I emailed Hahnemuhle to see if I could have some samples to be a beta
tester and compare with Silver Rag. The project head Christensen, said
they would be interested in having me test future products but this
one was already out of beta tests. That sounded strange to me since no
one I know has even seen it except Jimmy Doyle at a trade show and he
doesn't even have any to play with yet. 

So, it's all a mystery to me, but evidently it is a little smoother
than Silver Rag but is not a cotton based paper but rather an alpha
cellulose sheet, like darkroom fiber. I'm interested in what kind of
sheen it may exhibit. I'm sure Hahnemuhle doesn't want to give this
market away to Crane. May the best man win. Personally the word
"Pearl" worries me a little. It brings to mind the Cibachrome Pearl
which was a sad surface.

John


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "edrudolpho"
<erudolph@...> wrote:
>
> I'd like to learn about the Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl.  Is anyone
here testing it?  If so, 
> is it, like the Silver Rag, optimized for the K3 inksets?  Or is
someone getting good 
> results with other inks?
> 
> Ed
>