100% Cotton Inkjet Coated Rag Products

100% COTTON INKJET COATED RAG PRODUCTS

BEST SELLER MUSEO SILVER RAG 15 MIL / 300 GSM 100% COTTON GLOSS COATED RAG

MUSEO PORTFOLIO RAG 17 MIL / 300 GSM 100% COTTON ULTRA SMOOTH MATTE COATED RAG

MUSEO MAX250 15 MIL / 250 GSM 100% COTTON MATTE COATED RAG

MUSEO MAX365 21 MIL / 365 GSM 100% COTTON MATTE COATED RAG PRODUCTS

NEW MUSEO TEXTURED RAG “VIVID” 17 MIL / 305 GSM 100% COTTON MATTE COATED RAG

MUSEO TEXTURED RAG 17 MIL / 300 GSM 100% COTTON MATTE COATED RAG

MUSEO ARTIST CARDS 14 MIL / 200 GSM 100% COTTON FINE ART CARDS

NEW MUSEO ARTIST CARDS “HEAVY” 22 MIL / 305 GSM 100% COTTON FINE ART CARDS The Museo portfolio brings you an award winning selection of inkjet coated rag papers that feel and exude luxury.

Every time you open a box or roll of one of our Museo products, you are invoking over 200 years of image quality innovation that will enhance your art and provide you the results you have been looking for.

Museo inkjet coated rag products are crafted to meet the highest standards for long life and gallery exhibitions.

Each of our award winning cotton rag products offer a breathtaking level of attention to detail that will empower you to achieve the color depth, density, gamut, and tonal range that you seek.

Join the exclusive world of Museo.

MUSEO® INKJET COATED COTTON FINE ART RAG

BEST SELLER MUSEO SILVER RAG 15 MIL / 300GSM 100% COTTON GLOSS COATED RAG

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Museo Silver Rag leads in a new category of digital printing paper that allows image makers to ap- proach fiber-based photo paper results without the darkroom.

This new capability was born from a first-of-its-kind coating matched to a 100% cotton paper. Museo Silver Rag brings it all together— extraordinary depth and detail. The hand of fine art paper, archival quality permanence, and the gloss finish of traditional fiber based photo paper. Optimized for pigmented inks, Mu- seo Silver Rag brings out the best in B&W and color images.

There are many imitators today. FEATURES & BENEFITS But there is only one Museo Silver Rag! • 100% Cotton • Award winning Museo® Silver Rag™ coating • No optical brighteners • pH neutral, lignin-free • Premium gloss fiber finish • Instant dry • Vibrant colors WHY? • Rich blacks • Fade resistant Reminiscent of silver halide • Archival photo printing, Silver Rag is the • Superior B&W reproduction original standard for premium • Designed for use with photo black ink photo quality inkjet fine Art! MUSEO® INKJET COATED COTTON FINE ART RAG

MUSEO PORTFOLIO RAG 17 MIL / 300 GSM 100% COTTON ULTRA SMOOTH MATTE COATED RAG

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Museo Portfolio Rag combines an extra smooth cotton base with our advanced coating to bring you a paper that feels luxurious and provides world-class image quality.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• 100% Cotton • Award winning Museo® coating • No optical brighteners • pH neutral, Lignin-free • Elegant smooth matte finish WHY? • Instant dry • Vibrant colors Use Museo Portfolio Rag for your • Rich blacks museum exhibition and portfolio prints • Fade resistant when you need exceptional tonal range • Archival on a surface that will not detract from • Superior B&W reproduction your photographic images. • Matte black ink is recommended for best results • Photo black inks can be used if matte black inks are not available MUSEO® INKJET COATED COTTON FINE ART RAG

MUSEO MAX250 15 MIL / 250 GSM 100% COTTON MATTE COATED RAG

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Museo Max raises digital printing to a new performance summit. Using a breakthrough coating technology, Museo Max produces visually superior prints in B&W and color - You can see the difference.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• 100% Cotton • Award winning Museo® coating • No optical brighteners WHY? • pH neutral, Lignin-free • Elegant smooth matte finish Museo Max enables you to extract the best • Instant dry performance from your printer to generate • Vibrant colors bold, bright colors with fine, crisp details. • Rich blacks • Fade resistant Professionals who need extraordinary • Archival performance and archival permanence use • Superior B&W reproduction Museo Max fine art paper. • Matte black ink is recommended for best results • Photo black inks can be used if matte black inks are not available MUSEO® INKJET COATED COTTON FINE ART RAG

MUSEO MAX365 21 MIL / 365 GSM 100% COTTON MATTE COATED RAG

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Museo Max raises digital printing to a new performance summit. Using a breakthrough coating technology, Museo Max produces visually superior prints in B&W and color - You can see the difference.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• 100% Cotton • Award winning Museo® coating • No optical brighteners WHY? • pH neutral, Lignin-free • Elegant smooth matte finish Museo Max enables you to extract the best • Instant dry • Vibrant colors performance from your printer to generate • Rich blacks bold, bright colors with fine, crisp details. • Fade resistant Professionals who need extraordinary • Archival performance and archival permanence use • Superior B&W reproduction Museo Max fine art paper. • Matte black ink is recommended for best results | Photo black inks can be used MUSEO® INKJET COATED COTTON FINE ART RAG

MUSEO TEXTURED RAG 17 MIL / 300GSM 100% COTTON MATTE COATED RAG

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Museo Textured Rag is a delightfully textured, mould-made paper, reminiscent of old world cold press watercolor paper. Museo Textured Rag, features the award winning Museo coating that brings your images to life.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• 100% Cotton • Award winning Museo® coating • No optical brighteners WHY? • pH neutral, Lignin-free • Elegant textured matte finish Use Museo Textured Rag when you need • Instant dry a little texture to enhance subtle details or • Vibrant colors • Rich blacks tonal differences. Museo Textured Rag is • Fade resistant made specifically for superior black and • Archival white printing. • Superior B&W reproduction • Matte black ink is recommended for best results • Photo black inks can be used if matte black inks are not available MUSEO® INKJET COATED COTTON FINE ART RAG

NEW MUSEO TEXTURED RAG “VIVID” 17 MIL / 305 GSM 100% COTTON MATTE COATED RAG

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Museo Textured Rag “VIVID” follows in the proud tradition of Museo with a modern update. Starting with the same delightfully textured, mould-made paper as standard Museo Textured Rag, Museo Textured Rag “VIVID”, features a breakthrough new coating technology that offers the perfect balance between “bright white” and archival. With just enough optical brightener to push the brightness and whiteness levels 15 MIL into a new “vivid” color space, for unmeasured color output.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• 100% Cotton • Award winning Museo® coating • pH neutral, Lignin-free • Elegant textured matte finish WHY? • Instant dry • Vibrant colors For color images that need a little extra texture and • Rich blacks color pop, “VIVID” delivers like only Museo can. The • Fade resistant • Archival perfect balance between bright white and archival. • Superior B&W reproduction • Matte black ink is recommended for best results • Photo black inks can be used if matte black inks are not available MUSEO® INKJET COATED COTTON FINE ART RAG

MUSEO ARTIST CARDS 14 MIL / 200 GSM 100% COTTON FINE ART CARDS

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Museo Artist Cards enable you to craft highly personal, premium- quality cards using your words, photographs, and fine art images. Download our complimentary templates, to make it easy to create your personalized gift cards, holiday cards, announcements and invitations.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• 100% Cotton • Award winning Museo® coating • Archival • No optical brighteners WHY? • pH neutral, Lignin-free • Elegant textured matte finish Perfect for any occasion. Museo Artist Cards are print- • Instant dry able on two sides, pre-scored and are available in four • Vibrant colors • Rich blacks sizes with matching envelopes. Use the templates, artist • Fade resistant cards, your printer and your creativity to make artful, • Two side printable professional-quality cards. • Pre-scored • Downloadable print templates • Matching envelopes MUSEO® INKJET COATED COTTON FINE ART RAG

NEW MUSEO ARTIST CARDS “HEAVY” 22 MIL / 305 GSM 100% COTTON FINE ART CARDS

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Museo Artist Cards “HEAVY” is a thicker and stiffer version of the original Artist Card series. Use your words, photographs and fine art images to create a personalized card for any special occasion. Download our complimentary templates that make it easy to create your personalized gift cards, holiday cards, announcements and invitations.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• 100% Cotton • Award winning Museo® coating • Archival • No optical brighteners WHY? • pH neutral, Lignin-free • Elegant textured matte finish Thanks to feedback from loyal Museo customers, we • Instant dry have launched a new “HEAVY” version of the extremely • Vibrant colors • Rich blacks popular Artist Card series. • Fade resistant The “HEAVY” version has a more substantial “hand” and • Two side printable texture than the original, making your card much more • Pre-scored special. • Downloadable print templates • Matching envelopes DID YOU HANDLING FINE ART COTTON RAG anything that could damage the surface. One of the most overlooked parts of fine art printing is proper handling of the ma- Most inkjet materials, but certainly ink- terials. Inkjet coated cotton rag can be jet coated fine art rag and canvas, are easily damaged or compromised during susceptible to abrasions and scuffing that the production process. Proper handling can ruin a print. There are many brands, protects the integrity of the material and varieties and finishes of high-quality pro- ensures success from start to finish. Here tective coatings than can be applied with are some tips to improve print quality by a spray or brush to protect a print, that handling fine art media properly. is not going to be framed, from scuffs or abrasions.

AVOID CONTAMINATION Elements in the print environment, such CONTROL CLIMATE as dust and debris, can affect the media Inkjet coated cotton rag may develop a when it is stored uncovered for long pe- curl when exposed to changes in tem- riods of time. Dusty AC vents, fan blades perature and humidity. The amount of or ceilings, and dirty floors only make the curl that occurs will vary depending on problem worse. It’s best practice to keep the print environment and the type of media inside the protective plastic sleeve media. Curl can happen relatively fast and stored back inside the box until your and my cause expensive head-strikes if ready to print on it. left unattended. It’s best practice to store fine art media in the print environment It only takes one smudge or finger print around 68ºF at 50-60% relative humidity to ruin a masterpiece. It’s easy for oil to prevent media curl. and dirt to transfer from your hands onto the media both before and after printing. Handling fine art media properly results KNOW? Avoid using your bare hands and follow in less damaged and wasted material. the simple rule of only holding the media It helps improve print quality and keeps by the edges. Wear white cotton gloves your costs under control. The examples to handle the print and remove them if provided here may seem small, but they you need to do anything else. You could add up and effect print quality and profit. contaminate the gloves if you keep them on while touching other things in the print environment. COLOR PROFILES An ICC profile is a mathematical repre- sentation of the color capabilities for an AVOID DAMAGE output device like your printer or monitor. Damage can occur to the media when A proper ICC profile allows you to accu- it is mishandled during printer loading rately simulate the color capabilities of or carrying the final print. Thinner media your printer on a computer monitor. It’s types and larger prints are more suscep- not a perfect simulation, but it will provide tible to this issue. Improper handling can an approximate match between the final cause creases or dents on the surface print and the image on your monitor. and result in a reprint. Take special care when loading or carrying fine art media Museo has an extensive library of ICC by holding it along the edge and avoiding profiles for the most common printers in DID YOU the fine art market. We are constantly how the device produces color and the working to expand our library to help accuracy of the colors. This step involves ensure you create the best color output printing a color target with a high num- possible. ber of colored patches. The patches are scanned with a special device, processed RENDERING INTENT in the computer and saved in a file. Which intent should you choose for printing fine art? There is no right or wrong Museo suggests you search our exten- answer to this question. The rendering sive profile library or talk to our color ex- intent determines which alternate color perts if you are going to explore creating will be chosen if a certain color in the profiles yourself. image can’t be reproduced by the printer, ink, and paper. There are four different rendering intents: “Absolute Colorimet- OBA’S. YES OR NO? ric”, “Relative Colorimetric”, “Perceptual Museo inkjet coated rag has always Intent” and “Saturation Intent”. Each focused on archivability as much as rendering intent handles the replacement quality. The original Museo line does not a little differently. use optical brightening agents (OBA’s) to increase the perceived “whiteness” Museo recommends choosing “Absolute of the paper. The award winning Museo Colorimetric” in order to produce the coatings deliver exceptional color out- most accurate image colors, but only if put without the need for OBA’s. OBA’s your printer has an ink set with more than work by absorbing UV light and emitting ten colors. Choose “Perceptual Intent” visible light in the blue/white range of the if you have a printer with less than ten color spectrum. This can make the paper colors and you would like satisfactory seem incredibly white through a process results. called fluorescence. OBA’s can pose a KNOW? threat to the integrity and longevity of the fine art print because the colors will shift PRINTER CALIBRATION & PROFILING and the media will decompose over time. Calibrating your printer is the best way to keep your color output accurate. New Museo Textured Rag “VIVID” This step involves printing color targets, follows in the proud tradition of Museo setting ink limits, scanning the targets with a modern update. Starting with the and saving them in the computer. Some same delightfully textured, mould-made printers today can do this step automati- paper as standard Museo Textured Rag, cally or at least have incorporated these Museo Textured Rag “VIVID”, features a scanning devices into the printer itself. breakthrough new coating technology Check your printer specifications and that offers the perfect balance between instructions to confirm what is needed to “bright white” and archival. With just perform a calibration. enough optical brightener to push the brightness and whiteness levels into a While profiling is much easier today than new “vivid” color space without creating a few years ago, it is still a complicated significant risk of color shift and archival process that is often described as an art concerns, New Museo Textured Rag rather than a science. Printer profiling “VIVID” may just be the perfect balance. creates the final ICC profile to determine BECOME A MUSEO LEGEND TODAY!

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