I don't want to bad mouth Epson. They are doing the right thing by promoting these papers with their inks. I imagine their engineers told them, look how great these papers are with our inks and see why everyone is using them. But then the sales dept gets involved and have to take credit for everything. Why couldn't they just do as Canon did with Hahnemuhle and say hey we are a a great printer company that is partnering with a great paper company who has been making great products since the Renaissance and leave it at that, rather than trying to pretend they invented the coatings, etc.
There is always chance that Epson is buying a big stock in Canson since Canson left Arches, or buying them out totally, which is always a possibility. Who knows.
You guys do know that Canson made some changes to their coating about a year or so ago as well. The Platine became brighter, and I believe sharper as well, and they did some changes to the coating of rag photographique as well, and the dmax went down slightly. I don't know why that change occurred. So when Ernst does white point evaluations he needs to compare Canson's more recent coatings with the new Legacy. The old Platine was fairly warm and flat and I didn't use much of it then.
john