2006.10.01: Photokina Update 3

I am sitting in the Sihl booth right now. They are a major German coater/manufacturer of inkjet substrates for solvent and aqueous inkjet printers. Their US arm's website is here. I spoke with Patrick at the booth. Apparently, Sihl has a huge range of products and Sihl and Intelicoat would be considered classic competitors. Patrick had nothing positive to say about Intelicoat . . . he felt that his company produced products which are, in many cases, superior to Intelicoat's, that there are products that Intelicoat may already have established presence in the marketplace, and some products that Intelicoat has stopped making that Sihl continues to make. Think of it as his personal classification of their product offering. The conversation was terse though he was helpful even though he was rushing off to the post office with an envelope. His company does a lot of OEM work including doing coatings from the famous German paper maker, Hahnemühle. For this reason, they offer no fine art paper products directly under their own name.