For more than fifteen years now, my inkjet paper of choice has remained Hahnemühle Photo Rag. I currently use Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White (308 gsm) for both my black & white and color printing needs.

When I first began to produce digital prints, back in 1992, I felt that it was important to avoid attempting to mimic the characteristic look of the conventional (silver gelatin) prints I had been producing since the early 1970's. With so many vast improvements to both digital printers and fine art digital printing papers over the past nineteen years, digital prints have long since proved themselves to be deserving of no apology or excuse. Pigment ink prints possess their own decidedly unique and uncompromising aesthetic qualities and attributes which allow them to stand side-by-side with the very best conventional photographic print processes. Yet, digital prints are as aesthetically different from silver gelatin prints, as are platinum prints from silver gelatin prints. Each process has its own aesthetic nuance and expressive potential. Personal preference is the key.

Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White paper provides me with the aesthetic qualities, sheet-to-sheet consistency, and dimensional stability that I demand in a digital printing paper. The paper’s medium weight (308gsm) and smooth matte surface, together with a slightly warm-white paper-base color, help me to achieve prints that consistently meet with my expectations.