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HP C6831A Premium Plus Photo Paper Glossy 8.5x11(20 Sheets)

HP C6831A Premium Plus Photo Paper Glossy 8.5x11(20 Sheets)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Excellent Pictures but Major Problem
Review: Like others have said, this paper prints great pictures BUT as soon as you put the printed pictures in a photo album the ink "sticks" to the plastic. This happens especially with darker colors (mostly any black areas in your picture). Considering my wife has black hair and wears a lot of black clothes, this creates some problems and ugly photo albums.

However, I don;t believe this is an issue just with the HP paper as I tried switching to Kodak and experienced the same problem, though not as bad as HP. I will try a fixative spray as others have recommended and see if that works

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: the best i've used
Review: Of all the photo papers I've used with my HP printers (832, 932), this has been the best performing paper, doing far better than a specialty paper (Pictorico), and somewhat better than the Kodak papers in color accuracy. Whether it will work as well with other brand printers I do not know, but I can only recommend it highly for HP printers.

It would be nice if it cost less, but HP, like the other inkjet makers, intends to mint money on its inkjet supplies. And like almost all inkjet papers using water based inks, the prints are vulnerable to all water based liquids, including fingerprints.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: All that glitters is not gold
Review: Original review:
I just bought a new HP PSC 1210 All-in-one, and printed 4x6 photos on the free sample premium plus glossy photo paper. The result? Astonishing!! There's no way anyone can tell that the photograph is a computer printout and not developed on kodak paper.

True, developing 4x6 can be as low as a quarter per print at some places, making this paper uneconomical, but I'd highly recommend this for printing larger photos. (5x7, 8x10)

Amendment:
HP Glossy paper and HP's ink together have something wrong.. the photos are awesome, but they stick to the album plastic, and look awful.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Who needs Walgreens?
Review: This paper does the job. No need to get reprints done. We printed a beautiful picture of our 3 year old son that looks nearly as great as the one we scanned from the professional photographer!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great pictures, but the print ink sticks to everything!
Review: This paper yields excellent pictures using my HP. However I've had a lot of problems with the INK sticking to things, even after weeks of drying. In a frame you can see where the ink is "sticking" to the glass. Putting the photos in the plastic sleeve of a photo book yields the same effect but even worse. The photos, if placed photo side together, even stick to themselves!

My brother has the same printer and paper. He told me that spraying the picture with "fixative" solves the problem. It's a clear enamel found in art supply stores. Hope this helps...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pictures Deluxe
Review: Use this paper if you want exceptional brilliant photos - better than anything else I have used!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: About as close to actual photographic print you can get
Review: without actually being a photographic print...

This is, as others have mentioned, the best quality photo paper (and the matte finish premium plus is just as good) that is available (that I have discovered). The colors are brilliant, the paper feels like very close to the same as good photographic paper, and, for all intents and purposes, the final prints will have everyone convinced that it's a "real" photo, not a printed photo.

However, I agree with statements from others - the HP inks, when printed on this paper, can be smeared. Absolutely in the first couple minutes after printing it is very easy to smear the inks. Be careful taking the prints out of the printer, and don't let one print land on top of another in the printer tray or you might see some of the ink of the first print end up on the back of the other. Since we are all probably used to having prints with wet ink for a minute or two after printing, this doesn't really bother me, but even hours (days, maybe) after printing, the ink on the paper can still be smeared. I have not been able to smear the ink on the cheaper HP photo papers, so this surprises me.

But, if you are careful, I don't think you should have any smearing problems. And let's face it, if you really need to have a photograph that is going to last a long time, you shouldn't be printing it with an inkjet anyway.

You do have to weigh the advantage of a really sharp, really color-perfect photo-like print with the disadvantage of having a print that is possbily smearable and runny, though. Hopefully HP can fix this problem, and give us super-paper that holds the ink *and* has super-high color rendition.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: "Disappointment"
Review: Yes the color of the print on this paper was very impressive. The thickness was also nice. Then the problems start. I have let the photos dry for 3 weeks. They still got screwed up when I put them under a glass frame or in a photo album.It is like the ink never really dried. You would think for what they charge HP could make a gloss paper that works.To top it all of if you get just a tiny bit of moisture on the printed photo the ink wipes off. Save your money and ink!


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