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Best current FB paper to match TXP 320?

KOG

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What currently made fiber based paper best matches the characteristic curve of TXP 320?
 
I don't think that many B&W printers think about curve matching in this way, since there are so many variables in the process, and the evaluation is ultimately so subjective, that it's easier just to get small packets of a variety of current papers and see what you like when you print your own negatives using your own methods.

That said, if your concern is pulling as much shadow detail from TXP's long toe as possible, I like Lodima/Azo for contact prints and Efke Emaks for enlargements.
 
It depends on how you expose and develop the TXP,
and how you develop the paper !

In other words, it depends fully on WHAT you are doing,
the paper choice is not very important.

Dektol will probably not be a good choice,
but a plain metol developer (Selectol Soft, or 120) will be good.
Selectol/D52 and LPD will be excellent,
and any plain glycin developer (130 minus HQ).
Amidol, of course.

You have lots of options, most of them straightforward.