Setting the bar for premium photographic inkjet paper, Arctic Polar Luster is the paper pros demand and enthusiasts deserve. Arctic Polar Luster's surface represents the true modern photographic look and feel. Its extra weight and thickness gives the assurance you are a fine photographic print. The profoundly beautiful surface and state-of-the-art coating will make your photography look its best.
Setting the bar for premium photographic inkjet paper, Arctic Polar Luster is the paper pros demand and enthusiasts deserve. Arctic Polar Luster's surface represents the true modern photographic look and feel. Its extra weight and thickness gives the assurance you are a fine photographic print. The profoundly beautiful surface and state-of-the-art coating will make your photography look its best.
Arctic Luster features a deep luster finish which offers the perfect balance between deeply saturated color and minimized gloss reflectivity. If you use pigment inks, this is especially helpful and will greatly reduce gloss differential and bronzing.
Ideal For
Those looking for the best luster photo paper available
Saturated, sublime colors and stunning B&W
Projects that require a heavier and thicker media
Any inkjet printer
Good To Know
Deep satin / luster finish
Acid free base stock. Coating slightly acidic
There are no markings or logos on the back
Back of this product is not printable
Extra coating layer on back helps slow fade with dye inks
* Always display inkjet prints under glass, plastic or in a book for maximum print life.
* Rolls come wound with five extra feet at no charge
Specifications
Paper: Photobase base stock
Paper Weight: 75lb. (290 gsm)
Thickness: 11.8mil
Coating: True professional grade microporous coated
Color: Brilliant white
Printable: One side only - no printing on back
Paper Weight Comparison Scale
80160240320400
75lb Arctic Polar Luster Big Sheets 290 GSM
75 GSM copy paper
230 GSM photo weight paper
360 GSM heavy stock weight
20406080100120
75lb Arctic Polar Luster Big Sheets
20lb copy paper
60lb photo weight paper
96lb heavy stock paper
Is this paper compatible with your printer's ink?
All products are compatible with aqueous inks. Not designed for solvent, latex or UV.
Epson Photo (dye inks): Yes
Epson UltraChrome (pigment): Yes
Epson DuraBrite Ultra (pigment): Yes
Canon: Yes
Canon Lucia (pigment): Yes
HP: Yes
Lexmark: Yes
Kodak: Yes
* Matte and cotton art media over 59b. may not feed consistently in Epson printers and may require some hand feeding.
* Epson 4000,6000,7000,9000,10000 series do not work with sizes smaller than 8.5x11.
Card sizes under 8.5x11 are not compatible with Epson wide format printers
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I have used many brands and types of photo paper over the years. I stumbled upon Red River and I have to say Best paper and results Ever! You won't be disappointed!
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Artic Polar Luster
Bob Klein
08/04/2022
A great cold tone pure white paper with a luster surface. I like to have a consistent look to all my prints, so it's the only paper I use. I love that it comes in so many sizes. I print on everything from 5X7 to 13X19. I also buy 16X20, split it in half and print 8X20 panoramas. I print with a white border and the clean cool white is bright and fresh. My B&W prints look just as good as my color prints.
5 of 5 customers found this helpful.
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Outstanding
Allen Schaefer
07/20/2022
Crisp, vivid and alive without a lot of post processing.
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Always good paper from Red River!
Amanda Parente
06/11/2022
I’ve been ordering from Red River for a couple years and get so many compliments from my customers! I tried this paper for laminated bookmarks and the image comes out beautifully!
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Terrific paper
Ken
04/15/2022
Love this paper. Went through a box of 20 sheets of 17x22 in a weekend because my prints looked so good! I just couldn’t stop printing.
9 of 9 customers found this helpful.
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Great paper
Edward Savaria
03/23/2022
Needed a quality luster paper that would print great color and bw photos and not buckle when framed. This paper was perfect.
7 of 7 customers found this helpful.
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Attic Polar Luster has become my default when it comes to printing
Hudson Ingram
03/06/2022
Verified Buyer
Granted I am a Graduate Student who prints with university facilities so I haven’t printed with a big variety of brands. I really found and stuck with this paper after wanting to have brighter highlights and tone to my images. The images definitely have a brighter look to them than standard photo paper. Luster seems to lend itself towards the brighter material as well. I recommend it to anyone looking for a similar effect!
8 of 8 customers found this helpful.
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Great Paper
Tom Leininger
02/26/2022
Verified Buyer
This is my go to paper and has been for a long time. Red River is an awesome company and the paper rocks.
7 of 8 customers found this helpful.
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75lb. Arctic Polar Luster
Al
01/19/2022
Verified Buyer
This order was for a replenishment box of APL 8x10 from one that I used up. I purchased a pro-level A3+ photo printer a in January 2021 and RR papers were recommended to me by a friend. After purchasing and testing papers from 3 sample kits, I settled on APL as one of the papers that I liked. I then purchased APL in 4x6, 8x10, and A3+, and RR Polar Matte in 4x6, 8x10, and A3+. I like the colors, detail, and contrast that I get from APL. I will continue to use this paper as my go-to luster paper.
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Beautiful Finish
I print on a Canon Pro 9000 Mark 2 ... I have to say that Artcic Polar Luster is just amazing,a perfect weight at 75IB. durable for my photographic needs,you won't be sorry.Thanks to the sample kit I was able to sample this paper and it is definitely a game changer for me . Once again Beautiful Finish ...
Jorge Camacho - 08/22/2012
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"I chose Red River's Aurora Art Natural paper. The paper is more fine-surfaced than a raw, fine art, rag paper and it's that quality that provides great earthy texture and tone to evoke vintage themes."
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Photographic Grade Paper
Photo Grade products are designed to look and feel like modern photo lab paper. Most photo grade media are resin coated, which means they have a paper core covered by a thin layer of polyethelene (plastic) . Plastic gives the paper its photo feel, stability (flatness), water resistance, handling resistance, and excellent feed consistency.
Prints on photo grade media are stable over long periods. With pigment inks in a protected environment, you can see up to 80 years on-display life. All RC papers are Photo Grade for two reasons. Plastic content is not technically archival by museum standards. Also, the inkjet coating of all RC papers is slightly acidic. It facilitates instant drying and does not actually change the stability of your inks over time. Virtually all RC papers have optical brightening agents (OBAs).