Its smaller particle size provides a rich, bright finish, enhanced open structure and excellent printability. The biolatex binders provide comparable performance for important paper properties such as coating gloss, brightness, whiteness, fluorescence, ink gloss, and printability, while providing superior performance to SB and SA Latex for water retention, opacity, dry pick, print mottle, porosity (blister resistance) and paper stiffness. When added to a coating color formulation, first generation biolatex products typically replace up to 50% of latex in top coat formulations and 100% of SB and SA Latex used in precoat processes today. Current biolatex product development activities are focused on further increasing replacement levels and enhancing coated paper and print performance.