Kodak 8745234 Ultima Picture Paper, High Gloss, 4"x6", 100 Sheets

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Summary: THE Best Photo Inkjet Paper on the Market. BRAVO KODAK
Review: A big knock on printing snapshots off your photo inkjet printer is an issue called permanence. See all those lovely photos of your family? They look terrific now, but unlike your film camera's photos processed the old-fashioned way with chemical processing, a photo inkjet printer's colors will likely shift and/or fade in a period of weeks, months, or a few years depending on your printer, the type of ink it uses, the quality of the paper you're using, and how where your photo is stored (in an album vs. hanging on a wall in a room with lots of sun). If you want (or care about) your photo injet prints to last, you have to purchase special inkjets that use pigment-based inks, rather than dye-based inks most use, to make an "archival" print - that is, a print that will last as long as a chemically processed photo. Pigment-based inks do not produce as vibrant colors, generally speaking, as printers that use dye-based inks. Inkjets that use pigment-based inks - like some Epson models that use Durabrite inks, are known to have issues with clogging. Enter Kodak Ultima "Colorlife" photo paper. This is a highly advanced photo paper that produces prints on any inkjet - including dye-based, that can last 100 years. Let me repeat that. Prints made with this paper last 100 years. Not five years like the ones you probably have now. Kodak engineered a special process that no other photopaper has. It encpsulates the dyes in such a way that they resist fading as long if not longer than chemically processed photos. So, you can get the same vibrant colors of dye-based inks, with permanence that matches the duller colors of pigment-based inks, using virtually any photo inkjet printer. BRAVO KODAK! I have only printed a few photos using this paper. They look terrific. However, you ->must<- set you printer's color profiles to match this paper or your photos will look terrible. It takes 2 seconds to do this. Instructions for virtually every printer are provided, hardcopy, in each pack of photopaper, and are availible on-line on Kodak's site. Or - you can download the free software from Kodak's site. Also, for some reason the 4X6 paper is about 1/4 inches longer than 6 inches. I'm not sure why this is. The first few photos left about 1/2 inches on the right side. Not sure why but I'm sure there's a reason, and I'll figure it out. Minor glitch, not to worry. This is the best photopaper on the market, and the ONLY photo-paper that solves the injet permanence issue. It's a tad more expensive than the others but well worth the extra few dollars. I would like to enjoy the photos I've taken for years to come, not open up an album a decade or two from now to find faded, unintelligible images. I wouldn't even consider using any other photo paper until it can match Kodak's Ultima Colorlife's permanence. It is the ONLY photo inkjet paper out there in my mind.

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Summary: I'm not impressed...
Review: I bought this paper to use with my Canon i550 printer and there was a HUGE difference in quality between the Kodak paper and the Canon Photo Paper Plus Glossy that came with my printer. The Canon paper delivered spectacular photo-quality results, while the Kodak "glossy" paper gave me somewhat of a matte print. Side-by-side, there was more of a grainy texture to the Kodak paper, whereas the Canon paper was very even and flawless. On Kodak's defense, I do think that the printer/paper combo makes a big difference. Perhaps Kodak paper is simply not compatible with Canon printers. However, I expected better quality from Kodak, since they are the picture experts! I'll stick with Canon paper for now...

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Summary: Great paper, but 6 1/2 inches long, not 6
Review: I used this paper on a Canon i560. If you go to the Kodak web site and follow the settings recommendation for you specific printer, your results will improve greatly. On my printer, the default printer settings resulted in washed out colors. After adjusting to the recommendations, I got perhaps the most accurate color on this printer so far, including prints made with Canon paper and following the Canon printer recommendations. Others here who say this paper is bad on a Canon have not followed the directions.

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Summary: Why is this paper larger then 4 x 6?
Review: The whole object of purchasing 4 x 6 paper is to eliminate some hassles. Well if you have a memory card slot on your printer and just want to print some quick no fuss pictures this is not the paper for you. You will get a ¼ to ½ in of white space on one edge. It took me 20 minutes to figure out the paper was off and not my printer setting. Why the heck would I want to crop all of my pictures? I would like to know the genius who thought that was a good idea or better yet the person who agreed. What a waste of my time and money.

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Summary: Duhh! Why print 4x6 when it is 4x6.5
Review: This makes no sense. If the industry standard is 4x6, why did they, Kodak, cut the paper to 4x6.5 and then advertise on the carton that it is 4x6 -- yes, I see the fine print on the back side of the carton that reads "actual paper size is 4x6.5"

I still don't understand why they did this.

Now I have cut the pictures down to the correct size...what a waste of my time!!!!!!!!!!