It was my understanding that Mitsubishi made that and most all of the other grayish metallic rc media. Does Moab actually make or coat anything? I used to use the Photochrome version sold by Intellicoat and it was fine but it was way too expensive for what it is and scratched so easily. I did a show of very large prints on it for a show in Brazil but she scratched half of them during mounting. And if you put it behing glass it defeats the purpose. Really a pain in regard to scratching, as Royce said.
I have to say some black and white is pretty cool on it though. It is a very specific ghostly look. I dont think it is going to hold up well in fade tests.
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I have never encountered a paper from another manufacturer that is even close to Moab's Slickrock Metallic Silver. Likely Ernst is right, and this paper is manufactured for Moab by some other company, and therefore is possibly available under another label. But the odds are good that label would be at least as obscure as Moab in terms of import availability to NZ. You won't find something like it from the big players like Hahnemuhle, Ilford or Breathing Color, as far as I know. (We print on a lot of media from big and obscure suppliers alike.)
As a side note, I've made a lot of prints on Slickrock Metallic Silver. If I'm perfectly honest, I hate it.
We have one artist with a portfolio that looks good on this paper, so for her work it makes sense. But the spectral characteristics Ernst refers to cause this substrate looks very, very different from anything else, even the other RC metallic papers. I don't find it visually appealing in most cases. It's dim, low contrast, with a dominant blue-grey cast. Worse, it is a pain in the *** to work with, in production terms. It's thicker & heavier than most RC papers, curls more tightly and therefore is prone to a lot more feed roller scratching and head strikes while running through the printer. We've also had issues with a lot of surface flaking, defects and other flaws. As a result, we've dropped this paper from our standard stocked offerings.
There are a number of Moab papers that I like quite a lot, and use & recommend without hesitation. But Slickrock Metallic Silver is not one of them.
If your client would be willing to consider a more standard-looking RC metallic paper, I could suggest the Ilford Metallic Gloss. I prefer it to date out of the RC metallics... it has a beautiful surface, and it's pretty robust (though a bit scratch prone as with all high gloss, smooth surfaced papers).
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