I've an artist friend I have been doing work for, I shoot his paintings and make gallery sell sheets and promo cards on my Epson 3800 running Epson HeavyWeight Matte Paper. Being the prints are short lived, for sales tools only, I have no issues with using an ecomony grade stock, plus it is cheap. He really likes the look and feel of that paper, and wants me to make limited editions on a similar stock that is more suitable for that purpose. I have considered Epson UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper as an archival type of paper. Anyone have experience with it? Even though Epson HeavyWeight Matte Paper has Optical Brighteners, I wish to stay away from papers with OB's for this type of application for obvious reasons.
BTW, Epson UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper in 17x22 is roughly $7.00 per sheet.