Thank you for the extensive reply.
So on your list are you referring to general types of paper or are those the types you use from Hahnemuhle? (Excluding the HP of course.
) My local printing has been limited to 8x10 Luster and Glossy so this will be a new adventure for me.
I've also seen a lot of references to
Ink Press papers. Do you have any thoughts on their products?
Glad I could pass along some info for others.
No, I bought two sample packs of the big stuff when I bought my printer so I could play around with one (1) sample pack from Canon not knowing Hahnemuhle made that pack for them until later on. The other was an Illford sample pack at the time, not sure if they still have it or not of the 13x19 stuff. I've used the Museum Etching (Canon sample pack) which I really like as it's similar to a thin piece of Bristol Board in weight/thickness and I like to print my line art with that and then use a Gouache to fill in my color, of course this isn't all printing however the ones I mentioned I did do a full print. Hope that answered your question and my leaving out a few things before
I really wanted to see what the different brightness of the papers would produce for my first all digital painting. I should have stressed try getting a sample pack with different papers, Canon still sells the sample pack it's just in 8.5x11 now (good point reminder from
snberk103 ). I found that Hahnemuhle was making the paper for Canon and when they, meaning Canon, discontinued the Museum Etching in the 13x19 size I ended up going to the Hahnemuhle site and was very pleased to find it was still being made, just not sold by Canon. As you can see they also have a nice range of other papers as well. I will be getting some of their other sample packs as I'm really interested in the broad range they can offer and learning which paper could enhance a photo or art work down the road. To be honest, that Bamboo Paper has my interest perked and I've been wondering how an old Hollywood type of photo would look using it
The Goya Canvas paper sounds like the HP paper my friend uses and the slight texture looks really good in 13x19.
The rest of the list again I have printed using the same one piece of art work because like on the Hahnemuhle site, some papers will add a slight warm tone and others will be in the cool range, some will help define the color saturation while others seem to flatten a photo and it's nice to see just the paper altering the colors or perspective ever so slight and not PS, Illustrator or another program.
Glad the profiles were brought up, I was told by a Canon rep. and at one time it is/was in the manual, you can print 14x22 using the front tray if you use the paper profiles from a few different vendors. This will override the limit or border Canon places on the full print "only" when using fine art paper such as Museum Etching, Photo Rag and one other. Something about the edges might, and I do mean ever so slightly "could" peal up from the print head on the thick wide stuff. The glossy, matte and the other papers will print a true boarder-less print no qualms asked. So my art piece ended up printing 11x17 on the 13x19 Museum Etching because of the boarder but that was fine for that piece, a different one maybe not.
Also this is something I just did myself because ink is a cost with this printer over time, I cut up a sheet of paper into smaller sizes. I made some smaller sizes of the the Museum Etching just until I got the colors where I wanted them. If you were following a thread from me and the 9000 you would have read my own grief I had with a conflict somewhere/how with the drivers. I went from a 17" MBP running Snow Leopard to a new iMac with Lion and things went wack with my MBP. I had a super yellow cast over everything and because of that, I'm glad I used the smaller sizes first and not the 13x19 or I'd be chewing my own fingers at that point fwiw, laughs. It's all good now but it was a learning experience to say the least.
I will be the first to say, ICC profiles and all I'm still not use to meaning until I got this printer I didn't care because I just gave a shop my file and went about my day. Not to mention I was a painting major, canvas meet brush meet paint, simple or so I thought, laughs. Now I pay attention or send off an email making sure I have the right ones and so on.
I never checked out that site but I have heard great things about the water color paper they make because another friend has used it for Giclee prints with great results. Thanks for that link!
