Digital BW, The Print

Last week, I took the main advice from this group and replaced my 
broken 1280 with UT2 inks with a new R2400 and ordered the MIS K4+ 
inks as well. This is quite a change from my old system, so I spent 
a fair amount of time going through the archives and trying to get 
myself up to date, downloading profiles etc and getting familiar 
with this machine. One thing I discovered is that EEM (my standard 
paper) is not longer well regarded. Also, I was interested in a 
satin-semi-gloss type paper in addition to matte. So, I headed out 
to my local store to see what they had, and came 
back with 2 sample packs, one from Hahnemuhe and the other from 
Moab. First thing I checked were the non-matte papers and color ink 
(I am waiting for the K4+ inks before getting too involved with the 
BW prints). In particular I was excited to try the H. Pearl but 
there was also the Kokopelli gloss, semi-gloss and satin to try. I 
must be missing something, because I found the Pearl to be the worst 
of the bunch. Yes, it has a nice feel (the back side anyway,the 
print side is odd feeling), the blacks aren't nearly as good as the 
others (or photo rag for that matter), the colors looked grainy in 
the shadows (non-smooth) and it has the most annoying sheen to it, 
that unless you are looking at it straight on, and even then it 
isn't perfect, is very distracting. What is all the fuss about with 
this paper? The satin, I thought i could live with and might make 
this my non-matte paper choice. I havn't gone through all the matte 
papers. I tried HPR, Very nice paper! If it wasn't for the price, I 
would probably use it. I think that goes for most of the Hahnemuehle 
papers. I liked the Kayenta and Entrada papers very much after 
switching to the Hahnemuehle profiles (the moab ones were awful), in 
particular the different weights and bright and natural versions of 
the Entrada gives a lot of flexibility. For the price the Kayenta 
seems great especially considering it is double sided which makes it 
great for proofing. I did also play a bit with the Epson 
ABW and QTR and found the QTR gave a much smoother print, 
particularly in the gradation in the sky which was very grainy with 
ABW. So, after all that, today I find this:

http://www.legionpaper.com/pub/files/legionacquiresmoab.pdf 

Looks like Legion has just bought out moab. Any speculation on what 
this might mean for Moab papers?