ILFORD Galerie Professional Inkjet 8.5X11-100 Sheet - Smooth Gloss
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of ILFORD Galerie Professional Inkjet 8.5X11-100 Sheet - Smooth Gloss
Customer Review: Great Quality, Great Price, Large Amounts of Papers
Summary: 5 Stars
I use a S9000 - an awesome Printer by the way- and have tried these Papers: Canon Photo Pro
Canon Matte
Ilford Smooth Gloss
Ilford Printasia Premium Photo Glossy
CompUSA Photo Paper
The Canon Photo Paper seems to be the best but also the most expensive. I would say almost equally good the Ilford Smooth Gloss. It comes in large supplies of sheets per packet (100/250) at a great price of under a half buck per sheet. The Ilford Printasia is a cheaper peace of paper and you happen to see the difference when you have the results right next to each other. It appears somewhat lither in color with slightly less contrast compared to the Smooth Gloss. It is also somewhat thinner than the other afore mentioned papers. Still a pretty competitive product regarding the price.
The Canon Matte is as the name tells you not glossy at all. I would only recommend it when you convert your picture with digitla darkroom technique to a kind of painting and than print it on this pice of paper to give it a painting like appearance. Other than that I wouldn't recommend it. Now on the CompUSA product. Don't let me even comment on it. It's a shame that a company wiht a good reputation puts out paper like this regardless the price. It doesn't dry and only smears the jets. Stay away!!!
Verdict
Absolute performance: Choose the Canon Pro
Good performance at an affordable Price: Ilford Smooth Gloss
Customer Review: Excellent Photo Print Paper!
Summary: 5 Stars
At this writing there are 9 previous reviews and 9 people gave it 5 stars. I'm only adding mine because I used it with a different printer and also gave it 5 stars. I'm using the EPSON Artisan 700. You can check my review on that - Love it. I bought this paper based on the reviews and could not be happier. I made 9 test prints using slightly different settings for speed, edge smoothing, something Epson calls "Fix Photo", etc. The only constant was that I kept it set to "Premium Photo Paper Glossy". I even used both "Best Photo" and standard "Photo". My wife and I both have excellent eyes for color and quality - she owns a quilting business and my degree is in Art/Photography and I own a video production business - We could not see any perceptable difference in any of the prints using a printer test image with photos, gray scales, color boxes, and color prism bars. The quality was superb. The prints came out of the printer apparently smudge proof (I did not try anything damp or wet on it). Absolutely beautiful. It would take something pretty spectacular to get me to buy anything different than this for my new printer.Customer Review: No need to buy expensive printer brand papers
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm sure most of you know that the photo papers from your printer manufactures are rather expensive in comparision to others. I currently use a Canon i9900 printer and the prints I get from Ilford are fantastic. Quality is such a subjective opinion, but to me Ilford's Galerie Smooth Gloss paper is just as good as Canon's but at a lower price.
Another good brand is Fujifilm's Premium Plus. It has sort of a textured look on the surface of the paper, which makes your pictures appear sharper when you are farther away but the texture is noticable if you get real close. It's great for pictures that are hung on the wall because it's sharp even farther away, but for viewing less than an arm's length stay with Ilford's Galarie Smooth Gloss.
There's no need to buy expensive Canon/HP/Epson paper ever again.Just make sure to read the included suggested printer settings for your manufacture.
Customer Review: I am serious, this paper is better than Canon Paper Pro
Summary: 5 Stars
I like to use Amazon's review, so in a way I feel obliged to tell people truth. This paper is better than Canon Paper Pro (I use canon IP 4200 printer), you know the best canon has to offer. And you know why it is best, because it produces the same great results you can get on canon paper but it costs much less. I am telling you I found my new paper. Moreover this paper shows less "banging"- the lines you can notice if you look at photographs through magnifying grass. One more thing, Ilford paper is as shiny as canon's but, it (ilford paper) has, what I call dry shine in comparison to canon which has wet shine. The difference? When you grab canon Paper Pro photograph it may later show your great fingerprint, it won't show on Ilford paper. So to all photographers-if you used canon paper try to use Ilford for a while and see the difference. You may not notice one.Customer Review: Use This If You Have A Canon Printer
Summary: 5 Stars
I use this paper with my Canon i850 printer and Canon's free Easy-PhotoPrint software to print out vibrantly-colored, glossy photos of all my vacations. The key feature is that the paper dries instantly, even the black areas, making them smear-free & easy to store in clear sheet protectors. Just choose "Photo Paper Pro" as your paper when using the Easy-PhotoPrint software & let the printer do the rest. I could never store pictures I printed out on Kodak papers because they never totally dried.