Recommend a photo paper please

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Bob mizerek
Jul 1, 2005
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I am a new owner of an Epson R1800 printer. I’m looking for recommendations on where I can good prices on paper. I discovered this printer and PS CS2 makes me very very happy

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Pat Ziegler
Jul 1, 2005
"Bob mizerek" wrote in message
I am a new owner of an Epson R1800 printer. I’m looking for recommendations on where I can good prices on paper. I discovered this printer and PS CS2 makes me very very happy

Bob:

I like Ilford Gallerie Pearl. I order it on-line from B&H Photo… It has zero edging and a great texture… Not to expensive either..

Pat Ziegler
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Larry Heath
Jul 2, 2005
"Bob mizerek" wrote in message
I am a new owner of an Epson R1800 printer. I’m looking for recommendations on where I can good prices on paper. I discovered this printer and PS CS2 makes me very very happy

I have a Epson R200 and a Epson Stylus Pro 4000 I have used Ilford Galerie Smooth Gloss with their ICC and get very nice results in B&W as well as color, just a hint of cold tone in B&W (very slight cyan tone). I also use Brilliant papers in Glossy and Luster in 100′ rolls on the 4000 again using the ICC’s from Brilliant’s site for each of these papers. The Brilliant papers are a slight touch warm in B&W( very slight magenta tone) not that you would call either of these color casts. This is using Epson inks. Obviously I am printing with color inks for B&W output. I would like to have a separate SP 4000 and use it for B&W output exclusively, but I don’t have the extra 2 or 3 thousand to set that up.

As I am rather new to digital output and still use analogue capture then scan, take the above with a grain of salt, I will say that the B&W output is as good as and some times better than some of my best traditional prints in B&W and of course Photo Shop does wonders for output, things that would take days or be outright impossible at all can be done in hours or minutes in PS. I have been working for only a few months now and have found it a lot easer to get a very nice B&W print than I was lead to believe, again using color inks. I did some resto work of an ancient sepia tone wedding print that was most highly appreciated by the customer, the tip they insisted on giving me was more than what I charged to do the work. I used the Ilford Galerie Smooth Gloss paper.

So these two papers seem to work pretty well, I have done some reprints of older work that I feel to be some of my best work, something that I would consider a fine art print, and got results that were as good as the traditional print in tonal gradation reproduction and better in the ability to manipulate specific areas of the print and correct problems that were not fixable in traditional methods.

Ilford and Brilliant are good in my book.

Later Larry

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