HP Premium Plus Photo Paper, 4 x 6 Inch, 100 Sheets (Q5431A)

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5 x 8.2 inches ; 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000ALPBS
• Item model number: Q5431A
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,878 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
  • #97 in Office Products > Office Supplies > Paper > Photo Paper
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Create professional quality photos at home. HP's top-of-the-line photo paper, Premium Plus, comes with a high gloss finish and an 11.5 mil thickness, giving your prints photo-lab quality results at home. A coating on the back of the paper prevents your photos from sticking, while its 280g/m2 weight (density) gives your prints and extra sturdy feel. The sheets come with perforated tabs, which allows you to create borderless 4-by-6-inch photos. 100 sheets of photo paper are provided in this pack.

Product Description

HP's best all-around photo paper. Exceptional fade resistance. Ideal for high-resolution digital photos, reprints, photo albums and business applications.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality photo printing., March 4, 2009

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Noname - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Premium Plus Photo Paper, 4 x 6 Inch, 100 Sheets (Q5431A) (Office Product)

When it comes to photo printing, paper is everything. To bring out the best photo capabilities in a printer, the right paper is needed.

HP Premium Plus is a very thick and heavyweight photo paper. The photos come out beautifully without smudging and smearing. There is a coating on the backside of the paper that HP touts would prevent photos from sticking, which is always a concern of mine. So far, we've stacked some photos and haven't any problems with sticking. The photos do feel a little tacky, which they always seem to feel regardless of photo paper used. I do think it's less sticky than I've sometimes experienced with other photo papers.

The tab feature makes it easy to have a place to hold and label photos. It doesn't tear cleanly enough for my tastes, but perforated tabs never do. I just cut with my paper cutter.

This is a nice quality paper. I will buy it again in the future.

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UPDATE: I brought out the photos to show my mother-in-law how nicely the photos print out of a printer with the right kind of paper. My one caveat to her was that I could never find photo paper that isn't tacky when printed on. Sometimes, the photos even stick together when placed in a pile. I just never touch the surface where the picture is because I don't like the sensation. Well, was I surprised that the photos were not sticky at all. They felt like regular photos printed at the store. Whoa! That is a first. I just needed to let them dry completely. I thought they were dry before, but apparently not. Other photo papers really stay tacky forever, as I have tried touching them days later. This is the best. I'll be buying it from now on.

Oh, and my mother-in-law showed me photos she printed out on her photo paper and there is a huge difference. The photos on HP photo paper look like real photos from the store, no pixelation at all.

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UPDATE: I thought what I had was good, but I am getting even more stunning results from my Epson WorkForce 630 Color Inkjet All-in-One (C11CB07201) (my previous one was a Brother MFC-420CN Color Inkjet Network Multifunction). The details pop. I absolutely cannot tell this photo from the ones Snapfish sends me. Actually, I think these are better! Ink dries so quickly, it's touchable straight from the printer. If you are not getting good results, try a different printer. After seeing what an excellent printer can do with this paper, I am raising my review to five stars.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HP Premium Plus Photo Paper 4x6, December 28, 2009

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Oldies Lover (California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: HP Premium Plus Photo Paper, 4 x 6 Inch, 100 Sheets (Q5431A) (Office Product)

This is one of the best quality photo paper I purchase because of the image quality and fade resistance. For the best adhesion of the printed color, it is best to let it dry at least a couple of hours before placing in your photo album.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not sure how to Rate this, May 12, 2007

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K. Ferguson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Premium Plus Photo Paper, 4 x 6 Inch, 100 Sheets (Q5431A) (Office Product)

The photos looks great - no, GREAT, but they're tacky/sticky. I've been reading widely on the web and I'm not sure if that's a fuction of the printer that I'm using or the paper.

I use a CHEAP HP Deskjet 3940 with this paper so I really shouldn't complain.

I read somewhere that if HP uses different ink technology then the photos would be waterproof and would dry faster.

So all that to say that the paper is heavy and feels good in the hand. The appearance of the photos even from an "inferior" printer are FANTASTIC. But the sticky, slow-to-dry photos? I don't know if that's really the paper's fault!