Paper For Proofing
This page has advice on cheaper proofing papers for:
Fine Art Matte Paper Proofing Stocks
Fine Art Papers are beautiful, but expensive. Sometimes during the image development process, it is very handy to have a cheaper paper for proofing purposes.
The best we have found of these is Epson Archival Matte. This paper is in no way archival, despite its name, but it is an excellent proofing paper with a very good colour gamut, and strong blacks only slightly less than those from the king of fine art blacks, Photo Rag.
It's very smooth, very bright white, and cheap as chips. We suggest printing your proofs with a custom profile made at 720 PPI, and still doing at least one final proof on your final output media before you make your final prints. When you are custom profiled for both papers, it's a very good match for Photo Rag overall, although it does contain significant optical brighteners making the whites more blue.
A4 / 50 Sheets $33
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A3 / 50 Sheets $83
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You can buy online using the links above, or contact us to make your order.
Gloss & Satin Proofing Stocks
Canson PhotoSatin and PhotoGloss are both so good, and so cheap, they can be used for proofing. It's not really worth using a cheaper paper when these excellent papers are so cheap already!
Details here.