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Hi, me and my dad have recently gone halves on a Canon IP8750 printer. I've only had a little go but so far I'm very impressed.

At the recent Photography Show, I purchased a Fotospeed Sample pack of different papers.

My question is, how do I go about selecting the right paper to print with?

Paul.
 
You do it by experimentation; there is no 'right' paper for a particular image.

My own approach is to cut the paper up into 4 pieces, write the paper type on the back of each piece and then select some images. I then print the same test image in a sample of each paper, thus giving me a record of how a typical image looks on each paper.

By doing this, you may find a paper that works as a general purpose paper for everything you do or you may opt to buy several different types for different applications.
 
Sorry I think I phrased the question wrong.

I mean how do select or find the fotospeed paper profiles? I can find only Canon profiles.
 
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Printer manufacturer would include their own brand of paper in the settings and profiles. For example: You buy a Canon printer, you find something like "Canon photo paper", you buy Epson, you find "Epson photo paper", you buy X printer, you find "X photo paper" and so on.

You do not have to use their own brand of paper. You are entitled to use other brand of paper. Therefore printer setting should have the option to allow you to use another brand's paper. It is mostly found as "Other photo paper" or just "Photo paper" or whatever.

This would be why you could not find the Fotospeed profile.

You can either download profiles or drivers for other brand papers as suggested by viewfromthenorth (as above) or just use "other photo paper" settings or similar instead of Canon profiles. You could also if possible, create and save your own profile assuming if some of those models can do that.
 
RADDERS76 said:
Thank you. That's great.
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I use Fotospeed paper in my Epson but also have a Fotospeed CISS too so had them produce custom profiles based on their ink on their paper. The results are very pleasing :)
 
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