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Museo Fine Art Paper - Paper Chase - part 4 of 1 2 3 4 5 6

Published 01/10/2008

The audit results from each side of the double-sided Museo II were as close to identical as it is possible to expect - important for print matching across an album page spread.

There are two media at two weights - 250gsm and 365gsm, with both sides prepared for inkjet printing. They are specifically intended for the making of albums and portfolio books and are available in the 'book' sizes of 8.5"x11", 13"x19" and 17"x22" only.

Having lost confidence in the web profiles and having a smaller number of samples, we went right to making our own profile.

These media are intended for double-sided printing and so we printed each side, one after the other, using identical settings and then audited the results. For matching across two sides of an album spread the sides must match for colour and density. They were in fact very close, within a couple of tenths of a point across the gamut patches.

The shadows were slightly more open with this media, down to 20 RGB points and the Granger Chart was clean. There was some gloss differential in the deepest tones. The densities measured were 1.43 and 1.44 for each side. The tone response curves for each side matched almost perfectly to each other, but showed a discontinuity between 5% and 10% luminance values.

Museo Archival Matt

The small discs adhering to the surface of the Museo Archival Matt were an issue we had not expected.

No sign of any OBA in any of the Museo media.

Museo Archival matt is a 250gsm which has quite a lot of surface character; we expended a flat callendered surface from our experience with other material carrying this name. Museo call the finish 'velina'. It is available only as A4 or A3+ sheets. Although the sheets were very flat (Museo are big on getting the media grain the correct way round) they refused to load in the sheet feeder, the only one of the range to fail. There were a number of imperfections on the sheets, small circular discs 1.2mm in diameter. One of these was centred on the image and fell away after printing leaving a white hole in the middle of the image.

While it mattered little to us as we were throwing the prints away we can imagine this occurrence being seriously annoying for normal printing losing time, paper and ink to the user. Of the eight sheets we had only two that were free of these discs and some sheets had as many as five on them. The flaw was doubly disappointing as Museo go to such lengths to pack their materials correctly, even using acidfree sheets between the media.

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