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JetPrint photo paper (matte)

2002-12-22 by Gary Benson

I saw this paper for the first time on Tom Jow's December 
Exchange print of Death Valley sand dunes (beautiful print 
Tom!).  I was impressed with how bright white the paper is, 
especially compared with the EAM I've been using.  I really 
noticed the off-white, yellowishness of the EAM when 
comparing some of my EAM prints with with Tom's print.  I 
checked out the JetPrintPhoto website and was able to find 
a box of their matte photo paper here in Anchorage today 
  They call it Graphic Image Paper, Matte Finish, 50 sheets 
for $9.99, which is a real bargain.  So I came home and 
printed 6 different images on the JetPrint matte paper 
which I've compared with the same images printed on EAM. 
 What a difference!  I've been printing with MIS FS inks on 
EAM for the past few months and thought the warmish brown 
tone was characteristic of the inks, but they look much 
more neutral on the bright white JetPrint Photo paper.  I 
like it.

My question for the List is: does anyone know much about 
the characteristics of this paper, specifically related to 
longevity, fading, flaking, etc?   It's a nice alternative 
to Epson heavyweight matter or EAM/EEM and it's very 
reasonably priced ($0.20 a sheet).  If it has archival 
characteristics in the same range as the standard Epson 
heavyweight matte, I'd be very happy to continue using it.

Gary Benson
Eagle River, Alaska

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