Best photo paper to use

[Tito948]

I want to print some pictures I took with my G5. I tried Staple's high gloss paper. Disgusting! Now I'm trying Kodak premium picture paper. Almost disgusting!
Can someone tell which is the best glossy photo paper to use for my Powershot G5 pictures and my HP Photosmart P1000 printer?
I hate to keep wasting money on paper trying to find the best kind.

Thanks,
Tito

[SoCal69]

I want to print some pictures I took with my G5. I tried Staple's high gloss paper. Disgusting! Now I'm trying Kodak premium picture paper. Almost disgusting!
Can someone tell which is the best glossy photo paper to use for my Powershot G5 pictures and my HP Photosmart P1000 printer?
I hate to keep wasting money on paper trying to find the best kind.

Thanks,
Tito

Since you have an HP Printer, I would imagine that HP Paper would do well. I have found its just trial and error and dependednt on your printer. I have the canon i860, and found Canon and Epson papers work well, but that HP and Kodak Paper does not. Good luck.

[IanD]

Have to agree with SoCal. I used HP Glossy for a long time with my old HP Photosmart printer and had great results. Switched to a Canon i960 and Canon Glossy Plus and have even better results.
A lot of printer companies formulate their paper to match their inks. Give the HP Glossy a try. You will like the results.
Ian

[Vegas Poboy]

I'm using the HP photosmart 1000 and have good luck with Ilford brand papers. I prefer semi gloss for anything bigger than 5x7.

[chris.bailey]

hp Premium Plus Photo Matt is nice if, like me, you do not like really high gloss pictures. Not saure if you can get it over there but Olmec paper works really well in the hp's and you can buy it in bulk.

[Wojo]

I have an HP P1000 and have had very good results with Kodak Ultima Paper. In the printer preferences, set the paper setting to HP Premium Plus, Glossy and select 2400x1200 dpi ( not PhotoRet ) under Photo Paper Printing.

[timmyquest]

I bought a package of canons super high glossy paper and...it is simply amazing.

[dn7elson]

I want to print some pictures I took with my G5...Disgusting! Now I'm trying Kodak premium picture paper. Almost disgusting!Tito

What software are you using to print the images? I have found that the ability to output can be greatly influenced by software as well as paper.

I used to print my photos on an HP970 and found that the Kodak Premium Picture Paper worked well and was often on sale for less than $0.50US per sheet. I prefer the Heavy Weight for larger (8 1/2x11) images. I use it now for everyday prints on my Canon S9000.

You might also want to see if your computer Color Management is setup correctly and that your printing software is using it and not some other setup.

[Tito948]

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS
Paper: Kodak Inkjet Premium Picture Paper/Staple's High Gloss(Cheapy)
Printer: HP Photosmart P1000

Even with PhotoRet off it still prints funny. I tried the same with a .TIF file I made off a RAW image and still(with PhotoRet off).
The Staple's glossy paper actually shine's a little better than the Kodak paper. The Kodak paper does
have better color tho. Still, I'm not happy with the results. I'm gonna try some HP paper next.

But thanks to all the help and responses
Tito

[dn7elson]

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS
Paper: Kodak Inkjet Premium Picture Paper/Staple's High Gloss(Cheapy)
Printer: HP Photosmart P1000

Have you done the color calibration for both your monitor as well as making sure that the color management is setup correctly for your printer?

When I first got Photoshop v5.0, I found that the prints looked like "mud" when printed from Photoshop where other programs printed images fine. When I finally got Photoshop setup correctly and the color profiles and management working properly, prints from Photoshop became great.

[new girl on the bloc]

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS
Paper: Kodak Inkjet Premium Picture Paper/Staple's High Gloss(Cheapy)
Printer: HP Photosmart P1000

Have you done the color calibration for both your monitor as well as making sure that the color management is setup correctly for your printer?

When I first got Photoshop v5.0, I found that the prints looked like "mud" when printed from Photoshop where other programs printed images fine. When I finally got Photoshop setup correctly and the color profiles and management working properly, prints from Photoshop became great.

any tips on properly setting photoshop up for printing. my photos also look great printed from the printer software but are very off when i try and print from PS.

[Tito948]

Have you done the color calibration for both your monitor as well as making sure that the color management is setup correctly for your printer?

When I first got Photoshop v5.0, I found that the prints looked like "mud" when printed from Photoshop where other programs printed images fine. When I finally got Photoshop setup correctly and the color profiles and management working properly, prints from Photoshop became great.

No I haven't dn7elson. I will try that right away.

Thanks,
Tito

[Tito948]

Have to agree with SoCal. I used HP Glossy for a long time with my old HP Photosmart printer and had great results. Switched to a Canon i960 and Canon Glossy Plus and have even better results.
A lot of printer companies formulate their paper to match their inks. Give the HP Glossy a try. You will like the results.
Ian

I went and tried the HP Premium Plus glossy photo paper and was finally pleased with the results. It's true about the HP paper & printers. I printed the same pic on three different papers and the HP paper printed the best on my HP P1000. And the HP paper fits better on the photo tray.
I tried an 8 1/2x11 print with the HP photo paper and was also pleased. Nice color and crisp picture.

Thanks everyone,
Tito

[aberdeen]

Hey!

If you have PS CS, use Adobe Gamma if you don't have a calibration system like Optical. It'll help out a lot.

I use Ilford Gallerie Smooth Pearl and it is phenomenal. Decent price too. You can get it at B&H for about $40-$45 for 100 sheets of letter size paper.

Also, if you are printing out of PS, make sure you are not "double profiling" , which is essentially using the profile the printer control program provides and using the profile that PS wants to use. When you double profile, you can imagine that the results are somewhat messy!

Cheers!

[new girl on the bloc]

Hey!

If you have PS CS, use Adobe Gamma if you don't have a calibration system like Optical. It'll help out a lot.

I use Ilford Gallerie Smooth Pearl and it is phenomenal. Decent price too. You can get it at B&H for about $40-$45 for 100 sheets of letter size paper.

Also, if you are printing out of PS, make sure you are not "double profiling" , which is essentially using the profile the printer control program provides and using the profile that PS wants to use. When you double profile, you can imagine that the results are somewhat messy!

Cheers!

thanks for the info! i've been wanting to try the ilford paper, so will give that a whirl.