Product Description

Ilford Galerie Smooth Paper is a premium microceramic RC paper designed to provide instant dry images with a real photo look and finish, from today's range of photo-dedicated desktop inkjet printers.This paper features smooth surface and superb photographic image quality and consistency. It is specially designed to give you look and feel of a real photograph and it is compatible with most photo-dedicated and photo-capable desktop printers and the corresponding vendor's inks. Add to this good archival properties and fade resistance and you'll get a perfect media for printing!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12825 in Office Product
• Brand: Ilford
• Model: 1979211
• Dimensions: 4.00 pounds

Features

• The pearl side of the paper is the printing surface
• Excellent image quality, with brilliant, eye-catching colors
• Photographic weight and feel
• Water / Smudge resistant
• Good archival properties and fade resistance

Customer Reviews

Just what I wanted...
This photo paper is a substantial weight with a beautiful, pearl finish. Pictures look like professional quality. I am not a professional but I am an avid scrapbooker and like my pictures to be of high quality. I print in various and unusual sizes.

Excellent low-cost premium paper
I printed B&W and color prints from Photoshop CS3 on a Mac OS 10.4 using an Epson R800 pigment ink printer, using both the Epson ("Semi Gloss") and Ilford profiles. I didn't see any difference in the prints, but it's always a good idea to try the profiles provided by the paper manufacturer. I also used the printer's gloss optimiser to reduce bronzing; it also adds a nice finish to the print. I was impressed with the print quality; very similar to Epson's more expensive Semi-Matt paper. I sometimes find the colors on matt paper too pastel, and don't always want a gloss finish, so this paper is a nice alternative. I plan to continue using the paper. NOTE TO REVIEWERS: Please mention the printer and profiles you used to test this paper so readers have a frame of reference for your comments.

Absolute BEST photo paper I've used
I am an aspiring/amatuer photographer who prints my own photos at home. I took one of my prints to a frame shop before my last art show that I had entered and the man who was framing the photo asked me what type of paper I used, which wasn't the Ilford paper. He then pointed out the spots and small uneven spots in the image that I had never noticed before. He recommended the Ilford Galerie Smooth Peral Injet Photo Paper and I bought some that day.

I printed out the same image using four different types of paper and the Ilford print was by far the most professional and clear image free of imperfections. I was sold!!! If you print your own images at home, just try it and see if you can tell the difference. I LOVE IT!