Paper recommendations for Epson R3000

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I've had this printer for a couple of years and so far have exclusively used the Calumet Brilliant range of paper - usually the Lustre. I don't print a huge amount - personal use only and usually for camera club competitions. I've calibrated the printer with a Color Munki but still find that I often need to boost the brightness and sometimes the colour to get the image close to what I see on screen.

I was considering trying other papers and was wondering what other R3000 owners are using. Are Epson papers considered the best?
 
Permajet oyster (soft sheen, white) and Museum 310 (lovely matt textured finish like watercolour paper).

Your camera club might have a deal with one of the permajet reps and get you a bit of discount, so ask around
 
Thanks Maria - I'll have a look at those. I'm the vice-chair of the club so I know that we don't have any such deal - but you've given me the idea to maybe ask about such a thing!
 
Well if you don't ask, you don't get.... looks like we might get something. I emailed Permajet yesterday and got a nice prompt response today - thye are going to look at supplying a discount code. So thanks again for that suggestion.

Any other paper recommendations?
 
Thanks Andy - and a supplementary question (to both you and Maria) - do you use Color Munki or similar to create printer/paper profiles or do you download standard profiles from the paper manufacturer's site?
 
I don't have an Epson 3000, but do have a 2000 ... my favourite paper is the platinum baryta from fotospeed. I calibrate the monitor and use the generic fotospeed supplied profile from their website for the paper and printer & ink set and it works very well.
 
I got a friend at my camera club to calibrate my mac and printer, and to create a specific paper profile....

All very complicated and involved printing 8 sheets of each paper, each of which had about 144 two-toned colour blocks on it, then using some kind of scanning reader on the printed papers, and them some kind of magic wizardry (which was far beyond me!) to create the specific profile for my combination of printer/mac/paper. Took about 2 hours per paper profile.

I'll see if I can find out what he used and let you know.

I've previously used the permajet colour profiles, however, on a monochrome you could see a slight magenta cast (but only when comparing it side by side to the calibrated print), but as I'm in the process of preparing for CPAGB, I daren't leave anything to chance!

Glad you're getting a deal from Permajet :)
 
HopefulM said:
I got a friend at my camera club to calibrate my mac and printer, and to create a specific paper profile....

All very complicated and involved printing 8 sheets of each paper, each of which had about 144 two-toned colour blocks on it, then using some kind of scanning reader on the printed papers, and them some kind of magic wizardry (which was far beyond me!) to create the specific profile for my combination of printer/mac/paper. Took about 2 hours per paper profile.
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Sounds like the Color Munki process, although two hours is on the long side. It's not something I like doing as often as is recommended, as it uses a lot of ink...
 
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