fpm base stock was precoated with either 8 8 lb rm or 2 0 lb rm coating prior to high gloss top coat application results are found in tables 2 and 3 supercalendering was less intense for this trial resulting in overall lower gloss values than example 1 for both base stocks with hollow sphere plastic pigment conditions 1 2 and 3 at 15 or 21 total pigment paper gloss print gloss and smoothness were better than or equal to the cast coated example at weight percent addition levels comparable to the hollow sphere pigment paper gloss using the 0 45 micron diameter solid bead pigment conditions 4 5 and 6 were lower than both the hollow sphere pigment data and cast coated data however print gloss and smoothness were equivalent using a mixture of hollow sphere and 0 45 micron solid sphere pigments conditions 7 and 8 resulted in properties equivalent to hollow sphere pigment alone solid sphere plastic pigments with diameters of 0 20 micron and 0 45 micron diameter were compared weight percent of coating pigment was increased to 40 with the intent of improving the effectiveness of the 0 45 micron pigment table 4 shows that even at 40 the 0 45 micron pigment was ineffective for gloss development however using the 0 20 micron bead at 40 addition gave a 75 u00b0 paper gloss of 88 as shown in table 4 high gloss paper coatings.