From The Online Photographer comes this great story:
Happy Birthday Hahnemühle
You digiheads want tradition? I got yer tradition right here.
The maker of my favorite inkjet printing paper, Hahnemühle, in Germany (it's in Dassel, which is in North Germany, near Hanover), has been making paper continuously since William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. The company (which has only been called Hahnemühle since 1886, which was two years before George Eastman marketed “The Kodak” and coined the famous slogan, “You press the button—we do the rest”) is celebrating its 425th birthday this year. Not many companies, let along photographic companies, let alone digital photography product manufacturers, can lay claim to such a longstanding heritage.
Happy Birthday, Hahnemühle. Here's to the next four hundred and twenty-five years.
And it is glorious stuff. I use Epson papers in my day to day work because of cost but Hahnemühle is the good stuff if I want to make that special print. Lots of surface treatments available too — canvas and linen tetures for “painterly” prints.
Posted by DaveH at April 18, 2009 09:26 AM | TrackBack