Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Metallic

 
Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Metallic. You read right – it’s a metallic paper with a rag substrate; it’s thick and robust, but still feeds through your printers. This is new, unique and very nice. The paper comes in 17”, 24”, 36”, 44” and 50” rolls and several sheet sizes: US Letter/A4, 11”x17”, A3+ and 17”x22”.
This paper is unlike any other metallic paper I’ve seen or tested. While the others are shiny and garish, this is a rather “low key” metallic – it’s just metallic enough to be “metallic” while accommodating a broader range of subject matter than we would have usually thought suitable for metallic paper. It provides for a superior rendition of colours than I’ve seen with the other gray metallic papers and is particularly well suited to either grayscale or tinted monotone/duotone photos.
The surface finish is also quite unique for a metallic paper. Rather than being glossy, it has a toned-down textured finish somewhere between “luster” and “etching”, though it is a PK paper usin...