Digital BW, The Print

Hello Paul,

>One of the aspects of the Alise Museum-Natural that appears to appeal to both of us is the relatively low Lab B of the paper.  That is, it is a relatively neutral or "bright" natural paper as opposed to the usually more creamy look of non-OBA papers. 

Yes, I like that very much, but the main thing for me was the dmax.  Finding a non-OBA paper with dmax over 1.7 was a major big deal.  All the rest was icing on the cake.  

 

>Have you tried the Red River Aurora Natural?  It's even more neutral. It may have the lowest Lab B of any of the non-brightened papers.  

No, but I'll get some and test it.  My primary non-OBA paper has been Innova's Soft Textured Art with Dmax 1.62.  Very pretty paper (responds beautifully to K3) but is quite warm and thus more limited.  Aurora's 1.65 is good and a whiter paper would make it more universal.


> With QTR I'm getting a dmax of 1.65 with the Aurora, which is not spectacular, but good enough that only those on this list would notice the difference.

Maybe it should be classified as a disease <g>.  

After your previous post about PA papers I went back through my past test prints and realized I never tested the PA325.  The 1.70 dmax sounds real good so I ordered some.  Hopefully it won't have the curl that Alise has and will allow flake spotting.

Regards,
Clayton


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