to the starch solution with mixing then adding polyvinyl alcohol solution to the mixture with mixing then adding the salt solution then finally adding a pigment to the film forming polymer composition the pigment may be added to the film forming polymer composition as a dispersion or in powder form water can be added before or after the cationic polymer addition to adjust to the desired solids the cationic polymers of this invention with an rsv reduced specific viscosity of 0 1 to 30 dl g can be prepared by solution gel dry dispersion suspension and emulsion polymerization in at least one embodiment the polymer is a cationic dispersion polymer with rsv of less than 10 due ease of transfer through pipes or pumps and mixing film forming polymer compositions can readily be made using low rsv cationic dispersion polymer due to ease of mixing the cationic dispersion polymers of this invention have from 20 to 80 mole percent of cationic monomer the non ionic polymer with rsv 0 1 to 30 dl g can be prepared by solution gel dry dispersion suspension and emulsion polymerization in at least one embodiment the polymer of this film forming polymer composition is polyvinyl alcohol with hydrolysis levels above 85 a polyvinyl alcohol used in an example film forming polymer composition has a hydrolysis level of 99 in at least one embodiment the starches of this invention are those typically used in papermaking machines such as cationic modified and or ethylated starch examples of the starches are penford gum 280 an ethylated starch by penford corp of centennial colo and cerestar hs05972 in at least one embodiment inorganic water soluble salts with cations having divalent or higher charges are selected for use in the film forming polymer composition in.