In addition, it is the best weight of any coated paper I've used for greeting cards. At four cents per page this is a great deal for ANY inkjet coated paper on the market. Following your tip I stopped at one of the Staples stores in San Francisco yesterday and bought another five packs. For better or worse I had bought several packs of this paper on their two-for-the-price-of-one last November to use for this year's greeting cards for several holidays. I then use a piece of coated paper to get a sharper image of the test pattern.Ī later edit - Trainman, thanks for the tip. I find that plain paper used for the nozzle test has a tendency to have the ink spread slightly in the paper fibers and make the test look better than it really is. I kept it, however, for test prints before printing on the Staples paper, and I will also use it for Nozzle tests when the pattern is broken in a very subtle way. I was going to take it back as it was not suitable for my double side printing needs. It would be suitable, however, for single sided CD case inserts or other jobs requiring light matte card stock. The paper puckers from the wet ink in areas with a heavy ink density due to the fact that it is pretty thin. It does print on both sides nicely, but this paper is too thin for greeting cards or other double sided print jobs. I also just picked up a package of Kodak heavy matte paper at Costco that Kodak claims is suitable for printing on both sides. Last year I tried Staples photo supreme double side matte paper that is heavier than the Epson double side matte and prints beautifully on my i960.

I use double sided matte paper for greeting cards and had been using Epson Double sided matte for a few years.

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