Digital BW, The Print

I wouldn't trust that paper for anything.  At a county fair recently 
my young daughter begged me to waste $10 getting a photo of her done 
with a giant python.  I looked over and saw a couple 7690s and a box 
of HP Premium Plus Glossy and figured... well, at least it will 
last.  I paid my money AND THEN saw the Kirkland box.  Put the photo 
on the mantle for two weeks and it faded to orange (accerated due to 
running the swamp cooler)... that's dye etc... but still.  Aside from 
not being waterproof, the HP Premium Plus is an excellent glossy 
paper.

I don't understand being cheap with paper... if you are selling the 
output, a buck or so shouldn't cut into your profits and if it is 
done just for personal reasons, why bother produce junk... just my 
opinion...

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Scott McLoughlin 
<scott@a...> wrote:
> Below, this was a post from an HP user on the LUG. Wondering about
> whether this will apply to Kirkland Paper + MIS inks or the UC
> inks?
> 
> Scott
> ------
> 
> I've been printing B&W prints with Kirkland glossy paper from 
Costco for about six months now using a HP 7690 and their grey/black 
carts.  There has been a noticable fade towards yellow/green in the 
B&W images I have had sitting on a mantlepiece in our living room (no 
direct sunlight, prints unframed).  Similar prints on HP's top of the 
line glossy paper have had no fading at all that I can see.  As much 
as I hate to say it, the combination of ink and paper really does 
matter.  I would caution all of those expecting some sort of image 
stability from ink-jet prints to test carefully under display 
conditions (particularly with the inks being as expensive as they 
are).