Winter 2013

John Purcell Paper continue to expand the extensive range of papers and boards that are available from stock from their south London warehouse. The range of mill branded papers and boards from the paper mills at Arches, Canson, Fabriano, Hahnemuhle, Magnani, St. Cuthbert's (Somerset), Zerkall and others is regularly updated in response to our customers' needs. In addition, there is an ever growing

range of papers and boards manufactured to our specification including archival papers, book papers, museum and conservation boards and Gemini Olympic Mill Board. Imported decorative and conservation papers from Japan, Korea, Nepal, China and Mexico are also available from stock.

There is a paper version of our 2012 price list available on request. It is also available as a pdf. Prices will change later in 2013.

Heritage Rag 300gsm is available in sheets and rolls.

Saunders Waterford High White is now available from stock

Sketch Books. Availability of our sketch books containing Saunders Waterford watercolour paper has been improved. This is the traditional white shade of the paper. We now have good stocks of the complete range in A5, A4 and A3.

Fabriano mill have made some changes. Production changes mean that new stocks of Fabriano Artistico are now Short Grain with 2 deckled edges and 2 cut edges. We still have some stocks of the previous specification i.e Long Grain with 2 deckled and 2 torn edges. The Fabriano Ingres range has been changed with many colours discontinued. When current stocks are sold, they cannot be replaced. Fabriano White Ecological Paper is now in stock.

Hahnemuhle have made a number of changes summarised as follows: When stocks are sold, 20 sheet and 50 sheet boxes will be discontinued and replaced with 25 sheet boxes. Details are available on the relevant webpages. We still have some stocks of the range boxed in 20's or 50's for which we have made a special price. Details are available on request. A new range "Harman by Hannemuhle" has been launched. It consists of Gloss Baryta, Gloss Baryta Warmtone, Matt Cotton Smooth and Textured, Gloss Art Fibre and Gloss Art Fibre Warmtone all available in sheets and rolls. Samples are available on request.

We comment that our Archival Papers have a full Archival specification. We have updated the Photographic Activity Test information as follows:

Heritage Museum Board, Heritage Conservation Board, Heritage Woodfree, JPP Archival Kraft, Manilla and Cover, JPP Archival Folding Boxboard, Meridian High Density Board, Argentia and JPP Acid Free Blotting comply with Photographic Activity Test PAT(Per ISO18916).

The following is a summary of the changes to individual pages:

We have added two new items of JPP Archival Kraft:
AKS121 76.5 x 102 cms 120 gsm Sand
AKG128 88 x 126 cms 120 gsm Blue-Grey

We have made some special sizes recently of Somerset Tub Sized Satin and have stocks of the following:
SOTSS5 152.4 x 244.0 cms 410 gsm
SOTSS9 145.0 x 185.0 cms 600 gsm

The range of colours of Canson Miteintes (Coloured, Book and Drawing Papers) in roll form has been cut back.
There are now only MIB335 White and MIB425 Black

We have corrected the information on Saunders Waterford Traditional White rolls (Watercolour and Drawing Papers):
SA19 H3 The rolls are 100 metres
SA35N3 The rolls are 91 metres
SA63N3 The rolls are 40 metres
There is a new entry:
SA63H2 1.52 m x 40 m 638gsm HP

We have added one new item of South Bank Smooth;
SOU313 70 x 100 cms 310 gsm

We have added one new item of Fabriano Accademia:
FAACR2 1.5m x 10m 120 gsm

We continue to have good stock availability of all or our machine made Archival papers and boards. The JPP Archival Kraft, Manilla and Cover and JPP Archival Boxboard are all available from stock in a choice of Blue-Grey, Sand and Brown. Heritage Museum Board, Heritage Conservation Board, Meridian High Density Board, Heritage Rag and Argentia are all available from stock. Gemini Olympic Mill Board is now available in 100 x 140 cms in 2.3 and 2.8mm thickness.