Canon Photo Paper Pro

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 1 x 10 inches ; 10.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004Z5XH
• Item model number: 1029A004
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 6, 2007

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The ultimate in professional-quality photo printing, Canon's high-gloss, heavy-weight Photo Paper Pro produces truly remarkable, high-quality photo prints that are nearly indistinguishable from professional lab results. Use the 15 8.5-by-11-inch sheets in this package to create lab-quality photos and proofs that are ideal for press-quality graphics or promotional work. Designed for use with the BJC-8200 and similar Canon inkjet printers, this high-gloss, heavyweight paper has been developed for users who demand superior results.

Structure of Canon's Photo Paper Pro

Product Description

Produces truly remarkable high-quality photo prints virtually indistinguishable from professional lab results. Won't fade for 100 years when used with Canon's high-intensity color inks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

83 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing clarity. Color saturation sometimes lacking., December 8, 2002

By	commandax (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

I have been using this paper with my Canon i850. Until I bought this paper, I had seen nothing that produced such amazing clarity, sharpness, and preservation of highlights. There is absolutely no grain. The paper has no tackiness when it comes out of the printer and the print surface is absolutely smooth (some papers produce a kind of outline of the objects in the picture which you can see when you hold the picture so that there's a glare across the surface). The whites are very bright and clean, and the blacks are perfect.

In printing out a number of my photos, I noticed that the paper has some trouble reproducing very saturated emerald greens. This bothered me, as I do a lot of landscape photography of very green places like Scotland and Maine. I did a print test using several of my pictures and six different photo paper stocks: Canon Photo Paper Pro, Kodak Ultima Picture Paper, and four Ilford stocks: Classic Gloss, Classic Pearl, Smooth Gloss and Smooth Pearl. I discovered that of the 6 stocks, the Canon paper and the Ilford Smooth papers were the best. The Kodak Ultima and the Ilford Classic papers all had two immediately obvious disadvantages: they were tacky for some time after printing, and there was grain in the black areas.

The Canon paper is perhaps the slightest bit better at reproducing tiny details. Its bright whites are whiter than the Ilford Smooth whites. Its highlights are more sharply rendered than the Ilford Smooth highlights... but only marginally so. The Ilford Smooth produces deep, magnificent greens and richer reds, and renders faint pastel blues and greens faithfully instead of letting them fall off to white or gray like the Canon paper. So there are advantages to both, and I imagine which paper is best depends on what kind of picture you are printing. I will still use both papers, but I do really like the fact that the Ilford Smooth Gloss paper can be purchased in 25, 100, or 250 page packs, and costs between 43¢ and 60¢ a page instead of the Canon paper's 80¢ per page. You should try them both!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I didn't believe it, but it's true..., November 24, 2003

By	P. Summersgill (San Rafael, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was devout in my belief that I could get similar photo output from my Canon S800 with less expensive paper. I bought those big boxes of 100 sheets of Kodak's photo quality glossy from Costco. My prints were blotchy. Then I got my hands on some of Canon's Photo Paper Pro, and my pictures were magically crystal clear. The difference is amazing. I never would've thought paper would make this much difference. I've since bought Canon's 15 sheet packs multiple times. I now use the Kodak stuff for drafts or to give prints to people who don't care much about the quality of the output, while I save the Canon Photo Paper Pro for prints we want to frame.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but overpriced - other Canon paper just as good, February 23, 2004

By	B. Rutledge "sjsdad" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I tested my new Canon i960 with a variety of papers. Like most printers, the output is MUCH better when using the manufacture's own paper (as opposed to the cheaper generic paper), but there is no need to buy the most expensive "Pro" paper as neither I nor my wife could discern ANY difference between it and Canon's "Photo paper pluss - glossy". There may be a benefit to the "Pro" paper that cannot be seen (lasts longer?) but at almost twice the cost it is not worth it - both papers will produce the highest quality prints on your Canon printer (I think they look better than the ones I get from the photo lab).