Palo Duro Baryta Fiber 300 offers all of the rich tonality, depth, and feel of a traditional wet darkroom fiber paper. It has a lightly textured semigloss surface, which adds depth and an elegant reflectivity to the finished print. Palo Duro Baryta Fiber is a pleasant warm white that adds natural richness to portraits and landscapes. Black & White images also benefit from Palo Duro Baryta Fiber's deep blacks and exceptional contrast. Use Palo Duro Baryta Fiber 300 for your final product to surpass gallery and museum expectations....continue reading below
Palo Duro Baryta Fiber 300 Details & Information
Palo Duro Baryta Fiber 300 offers all of the rich tonality, depth, and feel of a traditional wet darkroom fiber paper. It has a lightly textured semigloss surface, which adds depth and an elegant reflectivity to the finished print. Palo Duro Baryta Fiber is a pleasant warm white that adds natural richness to portraits and landscapes. Black & White images also benefit from Palo Duro Baryta Fiber's deep blacks and exceptional contrast. Use Palo Duro Baryta Fiber 300 for your final product to surpass gallery and museum expectations.
Palo Duro Baryta has been described as "as close as you can get to Oriental New Seagull G", which was a favorite of Ansel Adams. It is not the exact paper to be sure. However, it will be your go-to paper for a true darkroom fiber look.
Palo Duro Baryta Fiber's whiteness comes from a special barium sulfate variant called blanc-fixe, which means permanent white. This material is in the coating. It is inert and lends stability to the paper's whiteness over time. The coating and base materials are free of acid, lignin, and fluorescent brightening agents. Palo Duro Baryta Fiber gives you all you need for true exhibition quality photographic prints.
* If your printer has a specialty media path, we recommend you use it with this paper. If you only have a top paper tray, you can use this product one sheet at a time. Please read our Tips for Feeding Inkjet Papers article for tips on printing with specialty paper stocks.
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Nice, but sheets curl
Becky, Nov 08, 2025
This is a gorgeous paper. However, despite storing the box upside down as recommended, the edges of the sheets are curling upwards after a couple of months. When printing, the edges get caught inside my printer and misalign my image mid-print. This is creating lots of ruined prints and wasted paper and ink. I have not been able to resolve this, unfortunately, and I still have 35 large sheets left. My only option is to trim the sheets down just before use and only use it for small prints. I’m upset about this and will not buy again.
Red River Paper Replies....
We are sorry to hear about the curled sheets. We encourage everyone to contact us first before writing reviews for curled paper. Paper can curl - it is just part of the fun of dealing with the product - and we can offer ways to mitigate the issue. If that doesn't work, we'll replace the item. If, after that, a review still seems in order, then by all means write away!
Great Paper
Larry, Sep 20, 2025
I have been photographing for over 50 years with half that time processing my work in the darkroom. In the digital darkroom, I have come to appreciate the quality and feel of the Palo-Duro Bartya paper rendering images much like traditional papers - both in black and white and color. I highly recommend this paper.
Good, but order the Softgloss Rag 315 instead
Jeremy, Apr 02, 2025
This paper is pretty nice. It's a mid weight paper that is substantially better than the UltraPro products I have used from RedRiver. The texture is less pronounced than I expected. It does not really resemble a traditional fiber-based wet darkroom paper to my eyes and I print in the darkroom all the time with Ilford FB. This paper curls slightly after printing FYI. I would personally skip this and get the thicker, more premium feel of the SoftGloss Rag 315 paper, which I would rate 9/10.
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