I like this paper a lot, and use it for most of my black & white prints now. The surface texture and D-max are very similar to those of Crane's silver rag, but the overall color seems more neutral to my eye, whereas the 'natural' paper base of silver rag looks too warm for black & white prints. Epson's premium luster looks quite similar in surface texture, and it's considerably cheaper, but presumably due to optical brighteners Epson's paper looks pretty blue in the highlights by comparison . Innova's fiba-print f-type gloss has a great D-max, but its surface texture (memorably labeled "naugahyde" by Richard Lohman) is pretty ugly.