Thread: Choosing your paper

As with ink, I'd recommend that, for most purposes, you stick with paper produced by your printer manufacturer. The most compelling argument for this is colour management. Firstly, it's necessary to understand that there's no such
thing as a printer profile - the profile supplied by printer manufacturers is for a printer model using a specific paper and ink combination. The profile for my Epson R800 works with Epson inks and Epson premium glossy photo paper. If I use any other paper the profile won't be correct and the results will be unpredictable.



It used to be difficult to get hold of profiles for anything other than the manufacturer's recommended ink/ paper combination but, increasingly, paper manufacturers are providing profiles for their products on a variety of printers. You can get profiles for use with Kodak Professional inkjet photo paper on a range of Epson and Canon printers from. At the time of writing the Lyson website is a mess. Hopefully, by the time you read this they will have sorted it out and it will, once again, be possible to download profiles for a range of inkjet printers using Lyson inks and papers.