We've made posts about what are the things to consider when buying an inkjet printer, the pros and cons of using it over a laser, as well as the market of inks. But aside from the consumables specifically ink cartridges that an inkjet printer requires in order to run, it also needs specialty papers. Considering that inkjets are more precisely capable of producing photo and high resolution prints. With the nature of photography, the wide variety of paper types is actually a great advantage for them to create transitions and developing their own style.
Known brands in the inkjet manufacturing business offer their own specialty papers, while there are these third-party manufacturers offering partly the same variety but may differ in quality as their counterpart. Glossy, semi-glossy, matte, fine, luster, these terms define a photo papers quality in terms of surface, color and coating.
Before making a choice on purchasing a photo paper, you should know first what type of ink your inkjet printer use. Is it using dye-base or pigment-base, cause this may affect the printout result along with the type of photo paper you used. Both paper and ink work together to produce the best possible output, quality and longevity of the image my either reduce or stay for long depending on the combination of these two.
In terms of photographic printing, two of the most competing paper types are the fine art papers and matte papers. Fine art papers are best to use if you want texture variation, however they're typically thicker and heavier than any other types. While matte papers are often use by many who preferred their printout to have the smoothest surface. Matte papers have three major surface textures such as smooth, satin and velvet, the latter is not smooth but rather soft, while the last is more rough than the rest.
Photo papers may also vary in thickness and weight. Notice when purchasing a pack of paper supplies there's the term "GSM or gsm" which indicates the weight of each sheet expressed in grams per square meter. While thickness is simply expressed in millimeter (mm), but it doesn't mean that a thicker sheet of paper means it is much heavier. It can have the same weight as a thin paper, the only advantage of using thicker sheets is that they can take ink loads much greater.
To those who are using HP photo printer, they said that original HP inkjet cartridges only works best with HP photo papers. That's not always the case, third party photo papers are often capable of providing better output. They can even exceed the longevity of photographic quality that branded products may offer.
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