Red River papers

I'm researching professional-quality printing papers for my landscape prints. I have HP 9180 (pigment) and HP 3200 printers (dye). I'm not quite satisfied with the colors from HP papers so I'm looking around at the dozens of other papers. Red River seems to have quite a broad range of dye and pigment based papers but a Google search hasn't turned up an objective review of them. Anyone had any long-term exposure to the pigment or dye papers?

Hi Don: I don't know what you're seeing that leaves you dissatisfied "with the colors" from HP papers, but my feeling is that it is related to color management or printer profiles. Almost ALL current dye and pigment papers are wide gamut and capable of exceptional color and detail.

Sorry, I have no experience with Red River Papers.

And you could be right, Gordon. I just ordered the Spyder3Pro and Spyder3Print to, hopefully, take care of the color/monitor manage problem. Still, I've read on these boards a lot of cudos and other comments about other brands of papers. I can't seem to locate 11x17 HP papers (or profiles) for my HP 9180 so I'm looking around for recommendations. Red River seems to have quite a wide selection of papers, card stock, etc. at reasonable prices so I thought I'd get an NPN check on them. Of course, if anyone has suggestions for other reasonably priced, widely available, pigment-type papers for a budding semi-pro, I'm certainly open to suggestion and research.

I haven't tried Red River papers yet but their prices certainly are appealing. You could order a sample pack and give them a try. You could also download their profiles and compare them to other paper profiles by soft proofing. That might give you an idea of what they'll look like.

For what it's worth, I'm mostly using Moab Entrada right now. I'm happy with the prints but I wouldn't call Moab papers "reasonably priced".

Cheers,
Mark

I have used Red River papers in the past. Overall, I thought the quality was quite good. I still use the River Linen Card stock for greeting cards. It has a very nice look to it. In the past couple of years I have been using papers from Moab http://moabpaper.com/ more than any other source. Agree with Mark about the prices. They are not inexpensive.

Don: go here (http://tinyurl.com/yjoy9lp), then click on the PAPER tab. That'll show you the shortlist of what is available. You can also likely use papers from many other manufacturers.

FWIW, I make custom paper/printer profiles and have made them for many satisfied NPN members. Follow the link in my sig for more details.

I have used the linen paper mentioned above for an exhibit 4 years ago. This year I am trying the polar luster from Red River. The service is great, their site is informative. They have a blog with helpful info and a newsletter