About Prints

• Color: Excellent
  
• Blacks: Excellent
  
• Quality of black and white prints -- always perfect
• Reflectivity: high (can be objectionable if lighting produces glare off the prints)
• Thickness: 9 mils
• Estimated time for 1st detectable fading, indoors: 75+ years (conservative estimate)
• Graininess from ink drops: generally not visible.

• Color: Very Good
• Blacks: Dark blacks - very good
• Quality of black and white prints -- Perfect. All b/w grayshades are created from black and gray inks.
• Reflectivity: medium-high (can be objectionable if lighting produces glare off the prints)
• Thickness: 9 mils
• Estimated time for 1st detectable fading, indoors: 150 years
• Graininess from ink drops: not visible

• Color: Excellent
• Blacks: Very Good. To the eye, almost but not totally as black as other media
• Quality of black and white prints - Perfect
• Reflectivity: low (Usually no problem from glare in any lighting)
• Thickness: 7 mils
• Estimated time for 1st detectable fading, indoors: 100 years
• Graininess from ink drops: None

• Color: Excellent
• Blacks: Excellent - as black as the very dark blacks obtained with dye satin or dye glossy.
• Quality of black and white prints - Perfect. All b/w grayshades are created from black and gray inks.
• Reflectivity: very low (little if any glare from direct lighting)
• Thickness: 21.5 mils - very thick
• Estimated time for 1st detectable fading, indoors: 150 years
• Graininess from ink drops: not visible
• The advantage of a matte surface is that it avoids glare from room lighting. This is at the expense of vividness of colors and deep blacks. However, this premium matte paper achieves both objectives.
• Prints on this paper look excellent, and room lighting should not be an issue.