The paper makes all the difference
My artist wife has been after me (tech support :/ ) for years to start making prints of her art in the form of both note cards and post cards since her former print maker gave up the business. You really can't make much of a profit in it. I tried to make them on an old canon ink jet printer with the avery card stock made for those sorts of formats. The results for poor to fair. That printer was starting to show signs of a slow death so I researched better printers and papers. The red river site was very useful in selecting a printer. Not willing to spend the extra money on a canon Pro 1, I found a deeply discounted Pro-100 with a big rebate included (I think at B&H) and took the dive. I suspect the 100 was being discontinued but no problem. We first bought a sampler pack and tried different papers and found the matte paper to be the best for her prints so we bought this paper for post cards and other RR paper for note cards and prints. Using the recommended RR settings for this printer and papers, the results have been astounding. I didn't realize the quality of the paper could make that much difference. The colors in the prints pop. And I did use "regular" printer paper for comparison. There is none. I suspect the multiple cartridges in the 100 help. Regardless she is now very happy with the results.\r\n\r\nAnd I am using wordperfect to make the prints since I am a 30+ year user of that once leading word processor and can more easily manipulate printing and formatting than word bloatware. I've tried Adobe elements and it sucks just as much as word.
Verified Buyer
subtropical ken - Aug 04, 2016
