Looking at third-party papers

If you have ever refilled your printer with ink, then you've probably already figured out…that printer vendors make their money by selling you the printer at near cost and then charging…a premium for your consumables. In addition to ink, of course, there's also paper.…Your printer manufacturer probably sells many different kinds of paper.…And what's nice about these options is that your printer driver will have these different…paper types built in as choices when you print.…What's more, since the printer manufacturer knows the properties and qualities of both…the ink and paper, they can engineer them to work very well together.…

At the time of this shooting, both Epson and Canon offer robust collections of very high-quality papers.…Epson has got the larger selection, and I've always been very impressed with Epson papers…in terms of image quality price and its physical characteristics.…But as you may have discovered, there are also lots of third-party papers from a variety of vendors.…Crane, Red River, Arches, Moab, Ilford, Hahnemuhle, and others all produce a huge variety of papers…