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Photo paper?

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I am looking to buy a fairly large amount of photo paper (both 4x6 and 8x10 or 8.5/11) and I was wonderring which paper you guys like, and where is a good place to purchase it.

I have an Epson R300.
 
I'm no expert, but I do work in an office with about $11000 worth of printing hardware that services a large university department. We have many different brands of paper lying around, and I've seen good results from all of them. Our really high-quality poster paper is Epson brand premium luster (~$75 for 50 sheets), which goes with our Epson 9600. However, we've also got a fair amount of HP photo paper and some high quality Xerox / Tektronix paper lying around that also works very well. I'd say go to your local Best Buy or whatever, and spend $30 or so on a sampler pack of high-quality papers, and choose whichever works best with your printer.

Bottom line? Buy a name brand, buy in bulk (once you have something you know works!), and if you're particularly worried, buy the same brand as your printer. Just my two cents. :)

P.S. Congrats on the new Olympus E-300; got one of these yet? Post some samples when you get a chance. I've had an Olympus E-10 for years now, and I love it. I'd really love to upgrade to one of these 4/3 system cameras. :cool:
 
If you wanted my suggestion:
I would do what HorsePunch said and try out sample packages and see which one you like / works well with your printer. Buy the name brand ones for sure!

For me, I plan to get papers by this order:

1. Canon - Very Impress with the high quality of Canon. ( It's thick & glossy)
2. Office Depot's Premium Photo paper - Hasn't let me down, will purchase again.
3. Epson - I have seen the 4x6 and they are pretty good. (Seems to rival Canons')
4. HP - No experience on it so I couldn't comment.
5. Kodak - Horrible, never again.

I would never get Kodak's brand ever again. It's thin & flimsy ( too bad I still have like 100 or less papers that my dad got me :( ) Maybe it's the model that I got? But whatever it is, I don't like it.

Right now I am using Office Depot's brand, when that's all gone, I plan to get a couple more of Canon's papers 4 x 6, 8.5 x11, and Poster size ones ( I ran out of 4 x 6 and 8.5 x 11). By then, I hope to have a brand new Canon Pixma Printer.... I have seen some demos of it at Fry's and I am fairly impress to say the least. I would like to try out Poster Photo papers too.
 
How do the Office Depot prices compare in your experience? I must admit I'm pretty out of touch with the pricing here. We pretty much hand the cost of paper on to the customer, and they're happy to pay, since we do good work. :)

Tangentially related: My brother got my mother an HP Photosmart 8150 for Chistmas. It was very easy to use, pretty quick, and the prints on the supplied HP premium gloss are beautiful!
 
I use Canon and Konica primarily.

Every so often, I'll use Epson, but I don't like it as much. It's a subjective thing and it may be nothing, but colors don't seem as vivid for me. Others really seem to like it.

I'll usually order paper from either B&H or Adorama.
 
HorsePunchKid said:
How do the Office Depot prices compare in your experience?
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Pretty good actually. Sometimes they promote deals like buy X amount get X amount free and such. But in general they are cheaper than name brand papers and the quality is close enough to high quality papers (like Canon and Epson) or even better than some name brand papers (primarily Kodak). Try it out, even if you don't like it, it is pretty cheap so you can use it for everyday printing or miscellaneous prints.

To give you an idea,
4 x 6 Photo Glossy Paper:

Canon 50 pack - $14.25
http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=606412&location_info=_SK_606412


Office Depot 225 pack - 29.88
http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=824275&location_info=_SK_824275

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This isn't the brand that I get though. I have the "Premium High Gloss Photo Paper" kind. I can't find it at the website at the moment (it was there before though :confused: ). Anyway, the difference is probably very little. So, for $30 dollars you can either get 100 pk of Canon or 225 pk of Office Depot Brand :) .


Overall though, I would still go with Canon just because I have been spoiled by the high quality pictures that it yields. :) . I just have to look for deals @ Fry's, they carry all kinds of Canon papers from all shapes and sizes.
 
My HP LOVED the HP Premium Plus glossy paper - the THICK 11 mil stuff. Everything came out great.

I've got some Kodak Paper I got on bargain sale, and while it looks good, it wasn't *quite* up to the snuff of the HP paper.

One thing to watch out for - I thought the Kodak paper was LOTS worse, but then instead of using "other premium photo paper" on the driver, I told it "HP Premium Plus Photo Paper" and the results improved significantly on the Kodak paper. Pretty damn SNEAKY of HP... :mad:

I've got an RX500 photo printer now, and surprisingly, there is not a hell of a lot of difference between it and my HP930C at super high settings on heavy glossy photo paper. I gave the 930C to the wife for her office - she was tired of having to come downstairs for a print, and never knowing if the kids had run the printer out of paper)

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