I suppose that if the color or shade doesn't matter to you, then that's fine. But if you get a few years into this hobby and have prints on several shades of white and off-white mounting board, the point my LF friend was making is you might wish you didn't have such variety (which made sense to me). He also steered me away from my thinking about possibly using gray or black board. There are various, subtly different off-white shades offered by the various mat board makers for a reason, as each may (probably?) communicate something (again subtly) about you and your prints. Archival Methods offers an item for only a few dollars that is a selection of samples of all the colors/shades they sell, so you can make your own decision.
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