That's S041072.

Anyone have any experience with it and what do you use it for? It is like tissue paper and looks like it was wet and dried in the sun when you first open the package and never does get perfectly flat though it prints okay.

-- bill (this_old_house@pobox.com), June 25, 2000

Answers

I think it's actually a polymer or plastic sheet. According to the box, they say it's for the "highest quality glossy output" and mention report covers? It looks like it'd lend itself very well to printing images which could be backlit and displayed like a large slide. Holding it up to a light source gives a very dramatic viewing effect almost like looking at a TFT LCD or a monitor. It'd certainly stand out in a room with typical lighting. You would need a diffuser of some sort to actually do this with a bare bulb or fluorescent lamp. Might make for some very reasonably priced backlit display frames for around the house. Especially when compared to the several hundred dollar TFT picture frame devices that are appearing on the market.

-- Gerald M. Payne (gmp@francomm.com), June 26, 2000.

I sure wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I took a print and stuck it on my monitor (static electricity) and turned out the lights - sort of a rich man's wall paper, but it makes the screen difficult to read. :)

More money wasted in my search for paper to print on. I've got more paper sitting around that I'll never use. Anyone want to pay the postage I'll send it to them. So far my favorites are HP Matte S041257 & Epson's "Photo Paper" S041141.

-- bill (this_old_house@pobox.com), June 26, 2000.

I've used HP C1846A which is a satin gloss finish photopaper in my Epson 760 with the glossy film setting in the driver with pretty good results. I found some in an office supply store for fire sale prices a while back.

I like the Epson photopaper and Ilford paper too. The glossy paper from Ilford is VERY similar to the Epson paper. I haven't found a local source for it though. The sheets I have were from some sample packs from Ilford.

I wonder if anyone has tried any of the glossy photopaper sold on Ebay for really good prices? The price looks great, but I wonder if it's just a cast coated paper, not a resin coated paper like the Epson & Ilford papers?

-- Gerald M. Payne (gmp@francomm.com), June 26, 2000.

The glossy photo paper on Ebay which is so cheap and I have tried with disappointment on both Epson 3000 and QMS color laser. On the inkjet printer the details are not there and the colors are off and smudge. It gets worse with the color laser, especially the dark color which won't attach to the paper leaving white spots. I tried with different settings but no luck. Now I print on the back to get a matt finish on thick paper!!

-- Tanasit Siriluck (tanasit@flashcom.net), June 26, 2000.