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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: edb00 on November 02, 2012, 04:06:33 pm
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I put together a series of prints on Hawk Mountain Osprey Velvet Textured paper which was discontinued sometime ago.
I had several rolls but not much left.
Looking for suggestions to replace it.
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I have never used it so I have no idea what would replace it. Was it cotton or alpha-cellulose? Bright or natural? What weight was it?
There are several 'velvet' papers around, most of them made by Somerset Mills in England. Moab has 225 g/m² and 255 g/m² Somerset Enhanced Velvet, Canon a 225 g/m² Fine Art Enhance Velvet, Epson a 260 g/m² Velvet Fine Art and a Somerset Velvet Fine Art Matte in 255 g/m² and 505 g/m². There is also a Breathing Color Elegance Velvet that I have used when I need a really bright white, it is 310 g/m². There are also several other textured matt papers that don't have the velvet label.
Your best chance would be buying several sample packs, and picking out the closest match.
Brian A
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Could be that I have some old A4 sheets here that I could compare to the maybe 50 textured samples of other papers. Could be that I thrown them away some weeks ago when Hawk Mountain announced its closure. I did a search but they did not appear, sometimes I have to rely on the accidental find :-)
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450+ inkjet paper white spectral plots, November 2012:
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Never seen the Hawk Mountain Osprey Velvet Textured, so I have no idea where it falls - but I just throw out that the Canson BFK Rives is a real favorite of mine when I want a slightly painterly texture, but not so much texture as, say, the HFA William Turner or Museum Etching. The BFK gamut is also pretty impressive.
John Caldwell