[alt-photo] Re: Paper issues

[Diana Bloomfield]

Hey Bob,

I bought it from the Bergger site that maybe comes from the U.S. Bergger office-- in Illinois, I think.  I also found a couple of sheets of a pack I'd purchased only about a year ago, and it was fine.  This I purchased about a month or so ago.  I can probably use it for something else, but I tried several sheets of it-- and the results were the same-- very grainy.  Same negative printed fine on the older Bergger paper I had, and fine on Arches Platine-- and really beautiful (if I do say so myself!) ;)  on the Revere paper.  So I'm sure your old paper is fine.  Like I said, I don't know if this is a new thing or just a fluke.

Diana
On Feb 9, 2013, at 11:56 AM, BOB KISS wrote:

> DEAR DIANA,
> 	Great Scott, Holmes!  Using grant money I purchased around 200
> sheets of COT 320 (11X14) about 2 years ago.  How "recently" did you order
> the COT 320 that looks grainy?  I bought some 20X24 within the last year and
> it prints fine.  
> 	Also, from where did you buy it?  The US Bergger office?  The one in
> Paris?
> 		CHEERS!
> 			BOB
> 
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> Diana Bloomfield
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> 
> Not related to Strathmore-- but speaking of paper, I recently ordered some
> COT320.  I was printing pt/pd on it, and the results were very grainy.  I
> was using a digital negative, so I re-did the negative-- thinking that might
> be the problem.  Still grainy.  So I printed the same thing on Arches
> Platine-- no problem at all.  I discovered an old sheet of COT320 I had,
> from a year or so ago-- and printed it on that.  It was perfect.  So-- this
> whole new batch of COT320 I got seems to be awful (for pt/pd).  I don't know
> if this is a permanent change, or I just got a bad batch.  It's very
> annoying when that happens.  On the other hand, I had recently purchased
> this Magnani Revere paper and printed some pt/pd on it-- and it was really
> so so nice-- now my favorite paper for pt/pd.  Haven't yet tried anything
> else on it.
> 
> Diana
>