Two papers, both uncoated and matte. You choose the weight; the surface was decided once, for every print.
| Museum 250 gsm | Classic 170 gsm | |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | uncoated matte | uncoated matte |
| Stock | off-white archival | white |
| Weight | about 92 lb cover | about 63 lb cover |
| Sizes | 30×40, 50×70, 70×100 | 30×40, 50×70 |
| Loose or framed | both | both |
| Curl out of the tube | flattens within a day | takes longer, wants a frame |
What gsm means
Grams per square metre: the weight of one square metre of the paper. A magazine page is around 100 gsm, a good postcard around 250, heavy art board 300 and up. Both of ours sit in the upper half of that scale. Weight changes how the paper handles — whether it remembers the tube, whether it creases at the corner going into a frame, how it feels handed over — and changes very little about how it looks behind glass. Two papers, and why both are matte is the longer version.
Why there is no gloss
A route print is a large field of one colour with a thin line across it. A gloss surface turns that field into a mirror: every window and every lamp appears in the paper, exactly where the drawing is not. Matte scatters the light, so the print reads opposite a window. The colour-depth argument for gloss applies to photographs, and this is not one. There is no gloss option and there will not be.
Which to pick
Loose: Museum 250. It is handled every time it is moved, it flattens on its own, and it is what "quality" feels like before anything is on the wall. Framed: either. Behind glazing nobody touches the paper or sees its edge; the frame carries the object, and the 170 does the same job for less. 70×100: Museum 250 only; the lighter sheet bends under its own width.
The paper's colour never shows
Natural, Night, Signature and Ember are ink, not paper: every colourway is printed edge to edge, so the sheet's own white is under the ink and not visible. Natural is a warm off-white printed on, not the bare paper. Which means the two papers look the same on the wall and differ in the hand.
Who prints it
Prints are made to order by our print partner at the facility closest to you, usually inside the EU, on Museum-Quality Matte 250 gsm or the 170 gsm stock. Delivery and returns has the times.