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June 21, 2005
[ KODAK PROFESSIONAL INKJET PAPER ]
MORE OR LESS COINCIDENT with the announcement that Kodak will no longer produce black and white photographic paper the company releases a new range of inkjet papers, designated Professional.
This paper comes in two surfaces, glossy and lustre, on the same substrate as Kodak photographic paper. The glossy surface is subdued compared with the high sheen Canon and Epson papers, but this is no bad thing.
People who have had bad experiences with Kodak's "consumer" paper in the yellow packets may be inclined to avoid the new product. There is no reason to do that – this is a totally different paper.
The Professional paper is dry straight from the printer, unlike the consumer paper on which the ink lies in little balls that stay sticky for days.
dpexpert will post a full test of the paper in due course. In the meantime it is worth trying, but keep in mind that the Kodak workflow instructions must be followed to the letter. Any deviation will result in truly awful colour anomalies. It is imperative to download the printer profiles from the Kodak Pro web site as well as the Workflow Instructions [pdf]. Unfortunately it is not possible to link directly to these pages because Kodak forces its customers to go through an annoying registration procress to get to them. Just grit the teeth and do it.
Black and white prints from a Canon i9950 on the lustre paper are particularly impressive.
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Posted by terry at June 21, 2005 09:55 AM
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And currently available from Office Works at 50% off the normal price(whatever that is!)for A4. Anyhow $14.97 per 20sheet - both gloss and lustre available at the Chadstone shop as of 11.45am today. Now I just need confirmation from Canon that the printer profile for the i9900 from Kodak's website will work on my i990 (the i9900 being the o/seas A3 version of the i9950 in Aus.)
Posted by: john smith at June 22, 2005 12:22 PM
John: that is an excellent deal. Almost unbelievable!
I used the Kodak ICC profile for the Canon i9900 on my i9950 and it works perfectly. I did find that I had problems with the paper/profile/workflow etc until I tried setting Colour Management to Manual and Enable ICM.
Follow the instructions to the letter and good luck.
Posted by: Terry at June 22, 2005 01:17 PM
The only thing that matters anymore, given the huge range of papers out there, is the fade resistance. Kodak seem a little coy about specifics on their website.
Posted by: Colin at June 25, 2005 05:07 PM