Summary: Awesome Photo Paper
Comment: I?ve had a digital camera for a while know and have used store kiosks to do any printing.
I recently bought an EPSON 825. I also bought all kinds of different papers. I can tell you this paper is the best of any I tried.
It does an excellent job of capturing the colors and the price is great compared to a kiosk. I showed some of the prints to friends and they didn?t know until I told them that they didn?t come from a photo processor.
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Summary: The Best Photo Paper
Comment: I have been taking digital pictures for several years now and have tried dozens of kinds of paper and NONE do the job like the Epson Premium Glossy Paper. You can not tell by looking that the picture was not printed by a professional. You may pay a little more for Epson but it is worth it, why take a fantastic picture and print it and be disappointed. I highly recommend spending the extra money and using the best. Anytime I try another brand I end up throwing the photo away.
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Summary: Wow fantastic quality and color
Comment: Believe me paper matters. When you put the wrong paper in your printer, you get very weird results.
P.S. This review was before I had used Kodak's One Touch to better Pictures. Please see my Kodak Paper review prior to making your buying decision. I was really impressed with what Kodak did.
REVIEW IS BASED ON USE ON THE EPSON 890:
When I bought my Epson 890, I bought several different packs of Epson paper, this 8.5 X 11 one and some 4 X 6 sheets as well as the roll paper. See my separate reviews on the others items (including the printer) also on this site, if you are interested in them. However, finally, I got around to trying the 8.5 X 11 paper. You see you wait until you have the perfect picture to do an enlargement.
NICE QUALITY IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT USES
It did not dissappoint. Wow, the colors were great. I took several types of pictures and different lighting and the result were great. Now that I've tried it I'm hooked. People who have seen the pictures first of all can't believe they are off an inkjet printer. Then they marvel at the color and sharpness of the photo.
PAPER AND PRINTER INTERATION:
One caution, those of you that think you can use any paper on any printer... Forget it. I had some paper from another supplier and when I used it on the Epson, the ghostly images were terrible. It seems not surprisingly that the printers are optimized for their papers. And to be honest, it is not worth the money to me to try a bunch of other manufacturer's paper only to find out the results would be bad.
EASIER TO FIND ON THE WEB THAN IN THE STORES:
This paper is easier to find on the net. I have looked in my usual spots for this paper off the web and considering not only computer, office supply and grocery stores it is just not out there.
Great product... Enjoy.
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Summary: Best Photo Paper
Comment: When recently reproducing all my wedding photos, I tested numerous photo papers, from all different manufacturers. If you are looking for a glossy surface that rivals true photo lab prints, this is it. My relatives that received wedding photos on this paper had no idea they were inkjet prints.
I haven't had any problems with fading yet.
The only other paper I would equally recommend would be Epson's Premium Luster Photo Paper, which has the textured "luster" surface like photo lab "matte" prints. This paper is only sold in boxes of 50 sheets, but it is creates gorgeous results!
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Summary: The second best computer photo paper
Comment: Until a few months ago, this was by far the best quality paper available for printing photos with a good photo printer, such as the Epson Stylus Photo 870. Print contrast, brightness, resolution, and color saturation, are excellent. The paper also works very well with black and white photographs. The blacks are remarkably deep and rich. Epson warns purchasers that the prints made with this paper are not as permanent as those made with conventional photographic papers, and it is important to protect the finished prints by putting them in albums or frames, and of course they must be kept away from direct sunlight. But Epson has now upstaged this paper with the new Epson ColorLife Paper. ColorLife is a semigloss paper that is generally superior to Premium Glossy, in terms of color saturaton and fine detail. And ColorLife is said to be much more resistant to fading.