#Staples high gloss photo supreme plus

And it will soak up ink like a sponge, so be prepared to have cartridges on hand. This is wonderful paper, almost giving your fine art prints a watercolor type appearance. I use a great deal of Epson Velvet Fine Art paper: I doubt you will get the type of fine art results you are seeking with the Staples paper not saying it's bad paper, but just not appropriate for your needs.Īnything that says, gloss, semi-gloss or satin will not give you the desired flat mat appearance you seek. So far just for convenience sake I've been using the Epson papers. There are a lot of great papers out there, but unless you have the specific profiles to load for your Epson printer for non-Epson papers you will get iffy to poor results. If you've read this far, you know I'm a bit lost. (I know, this is dumb, the paper is the cheapest part, vs mat and frame.)

#Staples high gloss photo supreme plus

HP Premium Plus 13x19 at about $2 - $2.50 starts to hurt. I've seen Epson Premium 13x19 at about $1.75/sheet, which is OK. The Staples paper is cheapest, $1.30/sheet. What is Luster? Sparkly?)Ĭost is a concern. Is it like matte? (Epson also has Luster. There is also Epson Premium photo paper in Semi-Gloss, but I don't know what it looks like. I have used HP Premium Plus Soft-Gloss in 8.5x11' sizes, but that finish isn't available in 13x19'. The pictures will be framed behind glass, but I don't really trust the Staples paper to resist fading. Staples has no information on this, unlike Epson and HP which have apparently done testing on their papers. I tried some Staples Photo Supreme 13x19' Matte (the only paper of that size I can get locally), and they like it, but I'm not sure how well it will hold up to fading. The people who are getting the pictures like a matte finish. But I do recognize that there are many people for whom close-enough is not adequate that's fair, and in that case, you'd probably be best to look at a name-brand paper (whether that's from your printer manufacturer or a respected paper company).I'm looking for help or advice on a good 13x19' photo paper to print with my Epson Artisan 1430. For anything that doesn't need to last long enough to fade, I've been happy with the results. But I don't need the results to be exact I just need them to look good. In the shorter term, their papers (at least the two I've tried) include a sheet suggesting what printer profile to use for each paper in various types of printers. Or the box I buy in Canada may be from a different supplier than the box you buy in some other country.

The box you buy today may have a different paper in it than the box I bought last year. As someone else pointed out, they may change suppliers from time to time that sort of thing is quite common for store-brand products in many industries.

Now, that's not to say that all Staples papers are bad. I have several others that rarely see any sort of light, only being brought out to be looked at, and they've held up well. Let me put it this way: I have a photo on HP paper that is several years old and gets hit briefly with late-day sunlight pretty much any day it's sunny (plus normal interior lighting), and it looks very good I have several pictures on Staples papers that are two or thee years old and never exposed to sunlight (only normal interior lighting) and have faded very badly. One caution: I've used a couple of Staples papers (gloss and satin) and have had poor display life from my HP Photosmart 7960 using genuine HP ink cartridges.