Epson Exhibition Fiber Review

Over the past couple of months Mark Dubovoy and I have been printing with Epson's latest fine art paper – Exhibition Fiber. We both are quite taken with this paper, though Mark more so than me.
This report contains Mark's detailed observations on this new paper, as well as where it fits within the current paper Pantheon. It concludes with some additional comments of my own based on a month or so of using Epson's Exhibition Fiber paper.
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Observations by Mark Dubovoy
The choice of a printing paper is a deeply personal issue. In the days of the traditional darkroom the choice of commercially available materials, particularly in color, was rather small: Usually two or three papers from three or four manufacturers, and that was it. The choice used to be a bit more extensive in black and white, but generally speaking there were maybe a dozen or so papers available for Fine Art printing.
One of the major changes with...