At 05:08 PM 1/10/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Just returned from Costco, where they had a double pallet load of Epson
Photo Paper out along the first main aisle. $19.99 for 100 sheets.
Moose
Epson Photo Paper is a good all-around paper and that's a very good price
for it. I found that it printed well with either dye or pigment inks. This
is kind of remarkable, since pigs don't really work well with glossy
papers. The caveat however is that with pigment ink the EPP doesn't really
look quite like a glossy anymore. On some prints where shadows prevail,
the look can be sort of foggy.
EPP is a clay-based paper and can hold a lot of ink. Its glossy surface is
not really up to contemporary standards achieved by Epson Premium Glossy
Paper (the one made of the 1270) and the newest Ilford papers.
The best glossy papers I have ever used are gelatin-sized. They are
beautiful and about as archival as one gets in the inkjet world. I've used
Xtreme Gamut glossy. I think Luminos makes a gelatin-sized paper too? The
new Ilford Galerie series papers are close to this, however, and handle
shadows and dark areas better without bronzing. There are two series among
the new Ilford papers, each with a pearl and glossy surface. The "smooth"
glossy and pearl paper are "microceramic", which I think is a nice way of
saying they are clay-based. The Galerie Smooth Glossy is a little fussier
to work with than I like, but I think that's because they have improved the
paper so much in terms of how well it controls shadows and darks. A
well-controlled print on Ilford Galerie Smooth Glossy looks more like a wet
darkroom print than anything I have yet seen. It has both luminance and
depth. Amazing stuff. Prints dry very quickly but alas they are not
archival class papers.
The "classic" Galerie series are a polymer on RC backing and imitate
gelatin sizing. The pearl surface in the classic series has been out for a
while, but the glossy surface was due out in November, though I have yet to
see it either at my dealer or in the B&H website. If it is as good as the
Galerie Smooth Glossy as well as archival, I am going to be in hog heaven.
Joel W.
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