Digital BW, The Print

About a month ago I posted a question about the paper to use to make 
passport photos with an inkjet printer.  Not having received any replies I 
went ahead and made some photos on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper, using 
a Canon S9000 printer and selecting Grayscale in the printer driver to get 
a monochrome print with the Canon inks.  The Post Office where we applied 
for the passport (for my daughter) accepted the prints without comment, and 
today the passport arrived in apparently fine shape.

I can't quite figure out what they did with the photo - it looks like it is 
melded into the inside of the front cover of the passport.  There is not 
the slightest trace of an edge to the thing, nor is there any difference in 
the flexibility of the cover where the photo is compared to the rest of the 
cover, so it isn't like the photo was just laminated on top of 
something.  There is a hologram over part of the image (an American Eagle 
and USA), and another hologram (Ben Franklin, I think) on another part of 
the cover.  Overall, a pretty cool deal.

There may be other papers that would work too, but at least you can use 
this one with confidence if you have a printer using dye based inks.  I 
don't know if pigments would adhere to this paper well enough to go through 
whatever it is that they put the photo through to get it onto the passport 
cover.

Cheers,
Kip