Customer Reviews

Kodak Ultima Picture Paper for Inkjet Prints (4x6.5, 5 Sheets)

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1 star:		(6)

 

 

After further review, I've changed my rating.

I got this sample pack of Kodak paper free when I purchased my Canon i850 (which also came with a sample pack of the Canon Photo Paper Pro).

The Kodak paper is not as good as the Photo Paper Pro. I've had the best success printing on it with the paper type set to Photo Paper Pro. The pictures printed on it are less glossy then those printed on the Photo Paper Pro and show banding. Also the paper seems to respond poorly to chnages in temperature and humidity.

The paper itself is 1/2" too long (4"x6.5") which can leave a white border on one end if you don't adjust for it.

I wouldn't buy this paper, but it's worth getting the free package to try for yourself.

We just purchased a new Canon printer and it came with a sample pack of Canon 4x6 photo pro paper. We were printing the same photo with different color settings to see how vivid we could make the photo and ran out of the Canon paper. So, we opened the package of Kodak 4x6 paper we purchased and the size is not even the same. Kodak 4x6 paper is actually 4x6.5

The quality of the photo compared to the other 3 we printed on the Canon paper is absolutely horrible. I belive it is b/c the paper does not absorb the ink quickly enough and beads up on the surface of the paper.

Buy Canon paper it is much better.

This is top quality paper. Prints come out great using the Canon I850 Printer. The only problem is the paper is not 4 x 6. It is 4 x 6 1/2. This leaves some blank space on the end of the paper. If it wasn't for this problem I would say this was the best paper available.

My Canon S750 had come with 5 sheets of Canon Photo Paper Pro, which produced excellent, borderless photos. After depleting those five, I'd purchased a 75-pack (!) of this Kodak Ultima paper -- a complete mistake.

As others have indicated, the paper is not actually 4x6, which is entirely misleading. Additionally, the "gloss" on this paper is nowhere near true-photo glossiness, as Canon's paper had been.

When these 75 are gone (ugh), I'll stick to Canon.

I must say, I'm very frustrated with this item, to the point that I, too, am writing this review when I'm not accustomed to doing so on Amazon.com. I bought this to use with my newly purchased EPSON Stylus Photo R300 printer. This is the first printer that I bought that supports borderless printing. Excitedly, I printed out a greeting card that I had prepared yesterday to sends off to friends and relatives; much to my dismay, there was a white strip on one edge of the printout.

Determined that there was something wrong with the printer driver and/or my system (MacOSX 10.4.2 Tiger), I went on a rampant search for a fix. I tried unistalling and reinstalling the driver; tried different versions of the driver (one that came with Tiger, one that I downloaded from the Epson website, one that came with the printer); tried repairing permissions; I was this close to doing a fresh reinstall of the OS . . . at which point I had the sense to measure the paper. Lo-and-behold, the paper is NOT 4"x6" but 4"x6.5". Which explains the 0.5" white band on one edge of the printout.

Unfortunately, my printer doesn't support this paper size, which means in order to get a true borderless printout, I need to manually trim off the 0.5in with an exacto knife -- which is exactly what I could have done without buying new printer.

Kodak, listen to your customers; labeling this as a 4"x6" photo paper is deceiving. Making a 4*6.5 paper when many printers don't support that size is just senseless.

Potential customer: do not buy this if borderless photo printing is what you want to do.

This is excellent paper for colour and b/w photographs on a Canon i560. It is far superior, especially with dark colours, to the equivalent Fuji 270g paper.

If it says 4x6, isn't that what you should get! I wanted to make borderless prints on my Canon i850 and ended up with a white band on top. I thought my printer was having problems till I measured the kodak paper and found out that it was much bigger. Thinking I had got a bad batch, as nowhere on the package did it say 4x7, I e-mailed Kodak and they were not responsive. Luckily it is only paper. Imagine a higher priced item with such a neglect of information or bad service! Stick with the canon paper....

This is my first review on Amazon. I decided to write it because I am completely dissatisfied with the Kodak Ultima Paper. As other reviews have mentioned, the labeling is misleading. It is NOT 4x6 paper. When you print, there is a small white band remaining. Furthermore, the quality and gloss of the paper are horrible. Stick with the Canon paper. This is a waste of money.

I've been involved in photography a long time and even used to have my own darkroom. I have used a lot of paper.

I am moving over to digital, and wanted to give this a try since it is Big Yellow Box and all. On their site they rave about their superior coating technology etc. 9 layers of magic, and so on.

I agree with other comments that on Canons (dye inks) this is not superior to Canon Pro Plus, but I would not say it was awful either. It IS different: dries relatively slowly, image is visible on the surface in a raking light, and so on.

For me, the real frustration is that it says 4 x 6 on the front and it isn't. And so I thought I was buying 4 x 6 paper. The fact that it is NOT 4 x 6 paper is on the package in the finest print on the back at the bottom. Thanks Kodak. And so why the extra half inch?

Their web site FAQ explains that the extra half inch is because "some" printers can't print borderless at 4 x 6. Well, all mine can. Do Kodaks not?

They also spin the issue of bordered prints because here's the real issue: if your printer driver doesn't support 4 x 6 1/2, then you can't get an even border much less a border less print.

But wait! Kodak will provide you with their OWN software for printing which I bet does support 4 x 6 1/2 - But I'm not going to waste the time downloading it and giving them my email address. Rather, I choose to spend that time here warning others off.

And where can I find any boxes or slip covers that support this incredible new form factor? Beats me.

Forget it. Seemingly Kodak has lost what little mind it had left. These goods are misleadingly packaged and of little value as 4 x 6 paper.

I agree with the other reviews...canon paper for canon printers is best..but you CAN get decent quality from Kodak...just go to their site and write down the recommended settings and voila!