Red River Paper Blog

More info and screen grabs on the driver maintenance and information functions. We also calculated ink costs per square inch using data from the printer logs. You can read about it hereCanon PROGRAF iPF5000

The Canon PROGRAF iPF5000 is a pigment based 17″ wide professional quality inkjet printer. Designed with the photographer, artist, and print maker in mind, the iPF5000 uses the twelve color Lucia pigment ink system to reproduce outstanding color saturation on a wide variety of Red River inkjet papers. Lucia incorporates four black inks for photo [...]

One of the first Canon Prograf iPF5000 shipped arrived at our dock yesterday afternoon. Its is priming as we type and tests on Red River inkjet papers will begin this afternoon. Stay tuned for information, thoughts, and print test results.

For real this time it seems. The HP B9180 is billed for professional use with 13″ wide capability and pigment-based Vivera inks. This is a big deal if you are an HP fan. Gone is the requirement that you use HP swellable polymer media to acheive long print life. The big deal…Swellable glossy and satin [...]

We have various sizes of the old Aurora Art paper still available at greatly reduced prices. See them on this page.

If you don’t get Popular Photography magazine then you might consider buying the June issue from the newsstand. Aimee Baldridge has an article called “Be a Printer Genuis”. It includes 20 tips and info points about inkjet printers and printing. The article is probably the most lucid piece on the subject we have read to [...]

Our fade tests for Epson UltraChrome K3 are in and posted on the main site. The numbers are good and better than we expected. As usual, if you want an inkjet print that will not fade for decades, pigment ink is the only way to fly. Some mini-tests were also performed on Canon ChromaLife 100 [...]