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 very strong blacks.

This paper is completely matte, has a very smooth bright white surface (contains optical brighteners) and is 192gsm.

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 better matte rag papers like Photo Rag overall, although it does contain significant optical brighteners making the whites more blue.