Textured Paper Suggestions

[KevinVitali]

One of my favorite go to papers for me has been Epson Cold Press Natural.  It works great for about 60-70 percent of my photographs.  I particularly love the texture of the paper.  Unfortunately when I have a print the black density is important this is not a great paper, but I love the texture of the paper still!

Any suggestions of a textured paper with much improved black densities?

[Mark D Segal]

One of my favorite go to papers for me has been Epson Cold Press Natural.  It works great for about 60-70 percent of my photographs.  I particularly love the texture of the paper.  Unfortunately when I have a print the black density is important this is not a great paper, but I love the texture of the paper still!

Any suggestions of a textured paper with much improved black densities?

If you mean matte, the range of improvement will not be huge. You can try Epson Legacy Fibre or Legacy Etching - in a P800 or a Canon Pro-1000, and using the B&W printing modes, you'll get about the deepest blacks feasible nowadays; but it will still be in the range of L*14~15, versus a range of L*1~4 for the better Luster/Gloss papers. You can look up the data in my various recent articles on the new printers and papers.

[howardm]

You're kind of looking for a unicorn here.  Highly textured matte  w/ very deep Dmax.  Not really gonna happen.

You *may* want to consider something like Premiershield spray, that can often give the appearace of deeper black.

[unesco]

Epson Hot/Cold Press papers have one the deepest blacks among cotton matt papers. I do not know what kind of printer/ink you use, but e.g. for 3880 ink they give the deepest blacks possible on this kind of paper.