[rollei_list] Re: OT: Hahnemühle inkjet papers, anyone know of retailers that ship internationally?

  • From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:07:03 -0500

> Thor is right, prices here in Norway are sometimes outrageous.
> 
> I'd like to do more inkjet printing, but the papers I like are priced
> beyond the pale.
> Look at the prices here:
> http://www.fotophono.no/foto/products.aspx?intshopcmd=&group=2222860
> 
> A pack of 20 A4 Fine Art Baryta is about USD 100!
> 
> These papers are much more reasonable priced at amazon.co.uk and other
> places, but I have still to find anyone who will ships them
> internationally. 
> 
> If anyone knows retailers with useful prices that will ship
> internationally, I'd be much obliged.
> 
> Thanks,
> Håkon


Yes well you're paying for Barium hydroxide: Baryta.
An important component in darkroom paper which spends much time under water.
But totally irrelevant in an inkjet print; Other than to make for a second
rate verisimilitude of a darkroom fiber print.

I'd recommend using 100 parent rag mat paper; which makes for a first rate
verisimilitude  of the inkjet process; which doesn't need to make any
apologies to anybody nor imitate anything.
The paper I  tend to use is  Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm Smooth Surface 20
Sheets  (11x17). Or close to it. Sometimes Moab I use.

Inkjet prints cost what darkroom fiber prints cost.
Dollars not pennies.

But for people who expect to pay pennies as they think inkjet printing is a
half assed process and have probably never even done darkroom work then it
feels very expensive.
To those people I'd suggest working with the process they respect. The
darkroom in this case.
As by doing so they'd end up with a very accurate verisimilitude of a
darkroom print. Unless they used cheap paper. Or RC paper. Or bad paper. Or
old Dektol.


Mark William Rabiner



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