In doing my first ink scan and review, I found that the venerable HP Premium Laser 32# is not exactly white but blue-green, and also that it is so bright that it overexposes in scanning (perhaps another reason ink scans can be hard to make look right) when I use calibrated gray levels. I believe this has a brightness of 98, so is definitely "enhanced".

What brightness of "white" paper is still white and not dingy like cheap copy paper? Or does that depend on a good brand to make a genuine white sheet rather than boosting it with day-glow chemicals?

--John

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Clairefontaine is the whitest paper I have, but I don't think you can buy it by the ream in the US. Maybe a Canadian source? The blank Triomphe pads are the closest of what's readily available, I would guess.

A lot of online businesses carry the regular notebook lines, so perhaps asking one of them if the Clairefontaine paper was available unbound would lead you to a source. Also, I've seen quite a bit of Clairefontaine in the local university bookstore, so that might be a place to check as well.

Good luck if you find any - and let us know if you do!

Clairefontaine is distributed by Exaclair in the U.S. Perhaps one of the retailers listed on that site would be a source.