Advantages: Good quality paper produces a shop quality print Disadvantages: Tear off side can be a bit ragged
the feel of traditionally processed photographs and the glossy finish produces vibrant colours, deep, glossy blacks and realistic skin tones. Any prints produced with this paper will be perfect for keeping, framing or for sharing with friends or family. Also, the special coating means images stay clear and sharp even in humid environments.
"What it is really like":
* This paper is a good heavy weight and feels like a 'proper' photo.
I like to have the option of printing A4photos on my inkjet printer, though I have a smaller printer dock for ordinary quick snaps. If you want to do an enlargement to put in a frame then this is perfect. Even my pernickity husband couldn't tell the difference between a digital photo printed on this and a traditional photo.
* A whole A4photo on my HP printer is not a quick thing. And it stays wet a while ...
Last week, I was asked to journey to my local Office World to buy paper for some holiday snaps. After some shelve browsing I came across the Hewlett Packard Premium photopaper.
I bought it purely due to the fact the packaging seemed to reach out, and in one swift promotional swing, forced me to purchase the product. Well okay I'm exaggurating, the main thing which attracted me to the product was the price tag. Office World have always been pretty good on prices, and the 6.79 I paid for a 10 sheet A4 pack of this left me feeling most impressed, infact I picked up two packs worth to cover all the pictures!
The paper's appearance is of particular high quality. Its extremely glossy, and resembles the sort of paper you find on the covers of magazines, yet much thicker. Of course, I was highly skeptical of the results when used in ...
Ryman has a number of own brand photopapers - the matt paper is decent but none of the ryman glossypapers are worth buying.
The gloss paper comes in a variety of gsm's (thickness) - the higher gsm's being sturdier and better quality. It is also available in a number of sizes - 6x4, 7x5 and A4. This is a positive aspect of the 'brand' giving a relatively wide range of options to choose from.
However when using the paper on a home printer (results may of course vary with different printers but I have used the paper with 2 different brands of printer, gaining much the same results) the prints look fine at first but the ink fails to 'set' (it is very easy to rub off even a long time after printing) and any sort of contact with the surface of the print results in scratches - basically you print a photo, it looks fine, but as soon as you do ...
