Specialty Papers and Some - A Review Of Some Special Papers

Specialty Papers + Some
Over the years I’ve been reviewing batches of fairly conventional papers, be they matte or gloss/luster and observing the growing diversity and maturity of conventional inkjet printing using these papers. It’s safe to say the industry has reached a high level of maturity with its conventional offerings, improvements being evolutionary rather than revolutionary – their main contribution is to offer some refinement of features and more user choice of paper characteristics. That remark applies to two of the offerings on tap in this article; however, the other five are specialty products that challenge conventional analytic approaches and conventional kinds of usage.  So I’ll discuss the conventional offerings first, i.e. the “+ Some” of the title, then turn to the specialty products.
The conventional offerings are Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta (HPRB) and Canson Baryta Prestige (CBP). Both of them are solid, wide-gamut (Photo Black ink) performers with some special ...