What's your favorite Red River paper? What's your favorite Red River paper? for landscapes? for macro? for portraits? and others... I'd love to hear what your favorites are.

Greenguy33 Loc: Rhode Island

What's your favorite Red River paper?
for landscapes?
for macro?
for portraits?
and others...

I'd love to hear what your favorites are.

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

Pearl Metallic. 11x17 and 4x6. Just started using it a bit not too long ago so I haven't developed a preference yet for a particular photo type.
Mostly I use Epson Ultra Premium Glossy but the metallic has a look that I like.

Greenguy33 Loc: Rhode Island

LFingar wrote:

Pearl Metallic. 11x17 and 4x6. Just started using it a bit not too long ago so I haven't developed a preference yet for a particular photo type.

Pearl Metallic is one that I want to try. What type of photos do you print on it? Landscapes, portraits?

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

Greenguy33 wrote:

Pearl Metallic is one that I want to try. What type of photos do you print on it? Landscapes, portraits?

I've done some of both with the Pearl Metallic but haven't had time lately to experiment too much. A couple of months ago I ordered two 8.5x11 sample packs from Red River, since I had never used their paper before. Wasn't very expensive. One of them had the Pearl Metallic in it. The sample packs come with quite a number of papers. Two sheets each, as well as the profiles to use. You might want to check them out. Actually, I ordered one of each sample pack and they sent me two by mistake. When I told them about it they told me to keep the extra samples. Gave them to a friend of mine to try.

Greenguy33 Loc: Rhode Island

LFingar wrote:

I've done some of both with the Pearl Metallic but... (show quote)

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Greenguy33 wrote:

What's your favorite Red River paper?
for landscapes?
for macro?
for portraits?
and others...

I'd love to hear what your favorites are.

Yes, the metallic for me too! I use others but they are just another paper.
For certain prints, the metallic is great. Like lots of specular highlight. Very special light or when there's a lot of chrome like for an old car or any shiny stuff, etc.
For everything else, just pick one!! LoL
SS

Greenguy33 Loc: Rhode Island

SharpShooter wrote:

Yes, the metallic for me too! I use others but they are just another paper.
For certain prints, the metallic is great. Like lots of specular highlight. Very special light or when there's a lot of chrome like for an old car or any shiny stuff, etc.
For everything else, just pick one!! LoL
SS

I have been using San Gabriel Semi-Gloss 2.0

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

I print with an Epson 3880 and like the Aurora Art Natural. Semi-smooth 100% cotton rag.

Photographer Jim Loc: Rio Vista, CA

For a few landscapes I use their Pearl Metalic. For gloss, luster, and matte prints I much prefer papers by either Moab or Hahnemuhle.

firtree Loc: Florida, USA

I bought the Pecos river gloss. It is a gloss on one side, matte on the other, pre-folded for greeting cards. (I made up some blank inside, 'all-purpose' cards one year for grab bag gifts.) I had a little trouble with the feed into the printer, probably due to the 60lb weight of the paper, however, once I upgraded my printer with a new one, the end results were quite good.

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

SharpShooter wrote:

Yes, the metallic for me too! I use others but they are just another paper.
For certain prints, the metallic is great. Like lots of specular highlight. Very special light or when there's a lot of chrome like for an old car or any shiny stuff, etc.
For everything else, just pick one!! LoL
SS

Lots of chrome and stuff! Hmmm..., that makes sense. I'll have to dig up some of my car show shots and give that a try. Thanks for the tip!

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

firtree wrote:

I bought the Pecos river gloss. It is a gloss on one side, matte on the other, pre-folded for greeting cards. (I made up some blank inside, 'all-purpose' cards one year for grab bag gifts.) I had a little trouble with the feed into the printer, probably due to the 60lb weight of the paper, however, once I upgraded my printer with a new one, the end results were quite good.

Greenguy33, what firtree just stated is something you want to keep in mind. Some papers are so stiff that they won't work unless your printer is capable of rear feed. Internal feed requires the paper to make a 180 degree bend around a roller. Stiff paper can't do that. I believe Red River will state that in their paper specs. It was stated in one of the sample packs I got because it included some very heavy paper.

Greenguy33 Loc: Rhode Island

LFingar wrote:

Greenguy33, what firtree just stated is something you want to keep in mind. Some papers are so stiff that they won't work unless your printer is capable of rear feed. Internal feed requires the paper to make a 180 degree bend around a roller. Stiff paper can't do that. I believe Red River will state that in their paper specs. It was stated in one of the sample packs I got because it included some very heavy paper.

Thanks, I have a Canon Pro-100.
My favorite paper has been San Gabriel Semi-gloss, which is a very thick paper.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

I mostly use their 68 lb. Ultra Pro Gloss 2.0; I like it and have no complaints with it. I've tried a few prints with their Polar Pearl Metallic 66 lb. and haven't liked it. It seems to be too cool/cold(?) for my taste, but might work well for something metal like unpainted or a silver colored airplane.

Just my non-professional opinion on that one paper; and I mostly use RR papers.

les2297 Loc: Central OR

Greenguy33 wrote:

What's your favorite Red River paper?
for landscapes?
for macro?
for portraits?
and others...

I'd love to hear what your favorites are.

Canon Pro9500 Mark 2

Polar Pearl Metallic
Arctic Polar Luster
Polar Matte
Print mostly 13x19 Landscape...(12x18 picture)