If you are inkjet printing your photos, you want and deserve the best possible quality at a great price. Red River Paper sells premium photo quality inkjet paper for your printer at 40% less than the big name brands. We buy direct from paper mills and sell direct to you.
Discounted Inkjet Paper Sample Kit
Try Red River's selection of Photo Quality Inkjet papers and see which you love most!
Details: Kits are regularly $12.99. Pentax Forum readers can order kits with free shipping for $7.99!
Coupon Code: Use code PENTAXKIT for the discount at checkout. This is valid only if you have a sample kit in your shopping cart.
Polar Gloss Metallic 255 features the same aspects as
its lab equivalent - a high gloss finish and a pearlescent base stock
that yields an elegant iridescence in your images. Order now
The art class I attend has 15-20 artists on any given day. Capturing their art on my "aim and shoot" camera, I then download the pictures to my computer and create note cards, specialty cards, greeting cards, etc. All the art looks magnificent -- the paper quality enhances the inherent beauty of our far from professional attempts at creating masterpieces. The class has told me Red River card stock is far superior to any other company.
Papers with the Archival designtation can take many forms. They can be glossy, matte, canvas, or an artistic product. These papers are acid free, lignin free and can be made of virgin tree fiber (alpha cellulose) or 25-100% cotton rag. They are likely to have optical or fluorescent brightening agents (OBAs) - chemicals that make the paper appear brighter white. Presence of OBAs does not indicate your image will fade faster. It does predict a slow change in the white point of your paper, especially if it is displayed without UV filter glass or acrylic.
Archival Grade Summary
Numerous papers - made from tree or cotton content
Acid and lignin free base stock
Inkjet coating layer acid free
Can have OBAs in the base or the coating
Museum Grade Paper
Papers with the museum designation make curators happy. They are made from 100% cotton rag content and have no optical brightener content. (OBA) The base stock is acid and lignin free. The coating is acid free. This type of offers the most archival option in terms of media stability over time.
Museum Grade Summary
100% cotton rag content
Acid and lignin free base stock
Inkjet coating layer acid free
No OBA content
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).
