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Hahnemuhle Bamboo Inkjet Paper

A scanned Ilford HP5+ 35mm negative on Hahnemuhle’s Bamboo inkjet paper. The film was exposed at 320 and developed 1+1 in Perceptol.

Today I made a test print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper. Bamboo is an inkjet paper and part of Hahnemuhle’s Natural Line range.

I have printed colour images before on this paper, but never black and white. I find that with colour images, warm hues are particularly well reproduced and certain complementary colour combinations really sing. This is keeping with Hahnemuhle’s own claims, but I today wanted to test their assertion that the paper is good for black and white too.

The paper has a very attractive surface, which I’ve attempted to show in the above images. Slightly textured, but still largely flat in profile, I was very happy with the way my monochrome piece sat on it.

Surely a paper I will play more with in future work.