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4.5
I got excellent results from this paper using a Epson printer and third party compatible ink, I'm not an expert on printing, but your results may vary depending on your printer and ink. I do a lot of digital art on a computer, and presently I've been making my own custom video game covers for my cases and tried a smaller pack to give this paper a go. The quality is great and I'm more than satisfied with my prints, will definitely buy a bigger pack in the future when needed.For those of you who may not know, colours on a computer screen can differ slightly to when something is being printed, in my case, one print came out slightly darker than what was on the screen. So I had to go in and tweak my art to make it print the right result, this is more a "me" issue more than the paper or technology. So depending on what you are printing, bear that in mind, although I imagine if you're printing photos for an album/photo frame or art/quotes with a very simple/minimalist style, it should be fine. If you're not entirely sure, I'd suggest you do what I did and buy a small pack first before committing to printing off say 100+ photos.Arrived few days after stated date ,but was informed of the delay which was fine.Not well package could have done with card in the packaging to stop it being folded or bent.Also not in H P packaging though has hp watermarks on matt side .The glossy side is fine and goes trough the printer with no trouble, unfortunately if you intend to print on the matt side the text is blurry and not sharp this has happened on the two tests i did using different setting and fonts ,so not ideal for card making unless you use insert paperTo sum up glossy side is ok and at 200 gsm goes through printer ok and does not leave black streaks on matt side which some glossy papers do .I bought this to teplsve the koala brand paper we have been using for a while. I was thinking that HP paper must be tops for inkjets... but I probably won’t buy this again. First it’s much more flimsy and second, side by side with koala it’s a cream to yellow colour where the other is bright white. Now, when printing a photo that takes up the whole page the printing is really very good, great colours and super glossy.... but we print images for framing that require a good amount of surrounding plain paper - and the off white shade appears really grubby for this type of image. So, it’s not total rubbish but it only suits a certain job I’m afraid.It may be expensive but it really is good quality photo print paper. I had a couple of photo frames which were in dire need of photo changes. My mum sent me these photos frames and they just came with random photos of eagles and polar bears taken on holidays... They were really quite strange yet I kept them up for over a year *face palm*. I finally got around to buying a new printer (HP Envy actually) and wanted to print out some large photos for the frame. These did the job and now I can look at my family and girlfriend rather than a creepy eagle!Overall: Would recommend. They are expensive but I can't imagine you're going to need too many sheets.Pretty good paper although its not a thick glossy paper, it's quite lightweight. I also found, using it with an Epson printer, that the details in the shadows that were present on the computer screen, had been crushed in the printout. So the blacks were more dark grey and the detail within the dark areas were absent. I checked that all my settings were correct and had the highest quality print setting selected.The previous paper I used was Kodak and found no such issues. But I guess this paper is relatively cheap, so in my opinion, you get what you pay for.
