Silverprint carries Forte, tis the only paper I use. The FB poly warm tone is splendid! - Enjoy
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I remember using only white, smooth glossy (WSG) as single weight or double weight by Kodak (mainly) or Ilford, which was always a semi-grade softer, making that horrid all-grades-in-one stuff totally unnecessary. Much as with the introduction of resin coated, it was more to do with simplification of production lines (choices? why?) I´d suspect, than anything else. Let´s face it, if you can print and know how to expose/develop film properly, then you don´t really need more than two grades of material at the best of times.
With respect of the WSG: I used to hate matt paper in the wet, but I just love it in digital guise, possibly because it is easier to understand how it will look dry than it did as wet; also, there was no commercial demand for it (matt) in my particular scene. Now, being my own best client, I can do as I wish (if it doesn´t cost much) and the digital matt under glass is just fantastic.
However, my retiral from the darkroom was more logistics-based than anything else and I would probably still enjoy producing a nice print of something interesting. But, that´s all in the past and part of very fond memory.
Cheers - Rob C
