hi to all can someone give me a few tips on which poto paper is the best or information on what i need to look for i have noticed that it comes in differant weights please help which is best thanks love lindy photo paper even my p does not seem to be working no comments please go on then

its me again its my H im having probs with sorry i have had a bad day thanks again love lindy

having tried kodak and hp i found the best to be from pc world its by photo printasia and has a photo of a cyclist in e dsert type suround on th front its 10.99 for 20 sheets
make sure when printing you alter the dpi in image size to about 300 it will greatly improve the quality of your print if you need any more help please feel free to pm me

Having explored all the options for printing at home, I decided that it's so cheap to have them printed at the likes of Asda, Boots, Jessops, that I decided not to bother.

Then I found www.photobox.co.uk :thumbsup: Better prices, better facilities for cropping and positioning than the shops seem to be able to offer, and they can print on all sorts of different things - like mugs, mousemats, calenders, canvas.....

And it still works out cheaper than buying your own photo paper :confused:


PS - they do next day delivery I think :thumbsup:

I buy Printasia 6" x 4" glossy paper (280 g/m) 27 sheets from argos for £10.99 buy one get one free. I also get A4 glossy paper (280g/m) Ilford Galerie £11.99 for 25 sheets again buy one get one free very good deal and thats from Jacobs just off the Moor. I buy my ink from XLShop.com for my Epson C62 printer, they are compatable cartidges and I get three colour and three black for £32.95 and that includes v.a.t. and postage.

What printer are you using?
I find Epson photo paper gives great quality from my printer, but then it is an epson printer, does your printer instructions recomend any paper?
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You want to try going to the computer fair at Don Valley, they do some good deals on printer paper down there.

HP Premium Glossy for me, but I'm really critical about the output quality.

Mixing and matching papers with printers can produce unexpected results as the reflectivity of paper at given light lengths (colours) can vary - the colour profiles in the printer driver are calibrated for use with original inks and paper so if you're critical about the output (for example, it's for college / university work or you're producing output for commercial proofing) then it's (in my opinion at least) best to try to keep everything tallied up.

I had some test prints done recently through a certain well-known chain of photographic stores and the results were really, really horrible. Flat skin tones and jagged edges in high contrast areas; the A3 prints I'd done myself had, smooth, subtle changes of tone and there were no "jaggies" to speak of. However, that's my experience, other people will have had different outcomes from different companies - hopefully better than mine!

You want to try going to the computer fair at Don Valley, they do some good deals on printer paper down there.

Yeah but why pay 3 quid to get in when all you're going for is Printer paper? You could get some good paper from Tesco for fairly cheap, as I've done before.

In fact I might nip across in the morning for some, running out now.