Us 35mm shooters need a different paper!

RalphLambrecht said:

grain achieves apparent sharpness but not resolution.There is a difference.

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Point taken. But, going back the OP's question, no paper "texture" is going to create resolution that was absent on glossy paper. So, I take it that the OP meant sharpness and responded accordingly.

Gerald C Koch said:

This is so silly that I really cannot comment except to say that there is an optimal viewing distance for every size print. Read the following article.

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/17835/how-to-calculate-viewing-distance-for-a-print-size

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Why it is silly? I like to inspect prints close on exhibition, same as I do with paintings in museums (I cloud see how painter worked to get the image).


If OP wants to get even closer than 2 inches then scanning the print and looking at it on the screen is good option.
Scan of the contact print from 4x5 reveals much more details on this example: