I'm a fan of the third one: SMOOTH HIGH GLOSS
MEDIA<http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/prod_html/galerie/htm/prod/shg.htm>
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it's not the regular smooth, but the high-gloss smooth - true it's clay
surfaced and it's not really archival. See their website and data sheet:
http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/prod_html/galerie/htm/prod/products.htm
Their blurb says 10 years with dye inks under glass and 30 years with
pigment inks.
But it's drop-dead gorgeous when it comes out of the printer!
Jez
On 3/28/06, Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/28/06, Jez Cunningham <jez.cunningham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Joel - the Ilford Galerie papers I mentioned that I use with my '870
> come
> > out of the printer absolutely bone dry. But Ilford don't seem to have
> the
> > same range or naming in Europe and the US. The Smooth High Gloss Media
> > doesn't seem to be mentioend by our US friends - but it is so so
> gloriously
> > glossy - it's just like Cibachrome. The Epson Matte is good too, but
> it's
> > only white on one side.
> > br
> > jez
>
> Jez,
> There are at least two Ilford glossies: the Smooth you mention, and
> Classic Glossy. They are quite different. The Smooth is admittedly a
> more beautiful paper IMO, but it is a clay-based surface and is not
> archival. The Classic Glossy has a different, somewhat unique polymer
> coating which imitates gelatin-sized papers in some ways. It is much
> more stable in an archival sense.
>
> I am most interested in the Classic Glossy and how ink performs with it.
>
> Joel W.
>
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