One of our most popular matte photo papers, Polar Matte sets the bar for how a top end inkjet paper should look, feel, and perform.

An acid free coating and base paper stock mean Polar Matte is a close to museum quality paper as you can get outside of 100% cotton art stock. With a buffered coating and minimal optical brighteners, this paper offers a pleasing neutral white shade and extra protection against paper breakdown over time. Polar is known for its excellent dMax (black intensity) with dye and pigment inks.

You can print brilliant photo quality on one side of this sheet. The back is plain paper suitable for text and graphics printing only.

Most customers who buy Polar Matte do so for finished prints, portfolio work, and greeting cards. It offers what the pro and semipro photographer expect for brilliant color and crisp black & white photography.

Learn more about Polar Matte here

Customers with an account on our website can log in and view their previous web orders.

A neat feature of this service is the ability to instantly replicate the entire order, or add individual items from that order to your current shipping cart. No more trying to remember what you bought last time.

To access the history feature, scroll to the bottom of the front page and click on the “Order history and quick reorders” link. In early 2006, an account login link and access to the history feature will be moved to a prominent location at the top of each page.

As of Jan 1, 2006, Red River Paper will no longer offer shipping service to APO, FPO, and US Territories. The inability to efficiently offer fast, cost effective and more automated service forces us to make this difficult choice. We will continue to look for better alternatives and will hopefully restore shipping to our customers in these locations in the future.

When its cold it is usually very dry. Low humidity conditions can affect paper, causing it to curl as it loses water content. Curled paper may then have trouble feeding into your printer. This has been a problem in the commercial printing industry forever. Now that we inkjet users are all “printers”, we have to deal with simlar issues.

So what can we do to minimize cold weather printing problems? The best solution is to humidify the room where your printer resides. A humidifer can be found at any local drug or hardware store and usually costs between $15 and $50, depending on its capacity. Another approach is to leave a pan of water in the room. Simple evaporation can help to raise the local humidity. Even a small increase in relative humidity can make a very large difference.

Also in cold weather, static electricity becomes much more prevalent. That static can make paper stick together and misfeed. Although more rare a problem, an unlikely fix is found in fabric softner. Products such as Bounce can relieve the built up charge in a stack of paper. Lightly rubbing Bounce on a stack of paper, or attaching a sheet to the back paper tray of your printer will lower the static charge of paper.

A possible quick fix if you have trouble feeding. Take a look at your paper. If you notice a dominant curl in one direction, try to bend the paper the opposite way just before printing. This should flatten out the paper enough to begin the job. You will need to do this to each few sheets as your printing job continues.

We recently added a number of closeout seconds and just plain discounted items here. They are great for practice or when you are looking for a low cost way to complete a project.