Photo Paper - Simply Photo Paper Thick or Thin?

What weight of paper should you use?

Paper weight and thickness may have little or no noticeable effect on the quality of the printed image. However, thicker paper feels more substantial, and can lend visual integrity to a project.

Heavyweight paper can express the importance and seriousness of a project which otherwise may be overlooked. This is extremely true with some business card media. Thin photo paper often gives photos and displays an image of poor desktop printing quality even without a word being expressed.

Thicker paper tends to hold up well, when there is heavy ink coverage. For color photos from your desktop, we believe thicker inkjet photo paper to be better. However, some desktop printers may not be designed to readily handle thicker paper, especially if the printer does not have a straight paper path.

For desktop and offset printing, choose a paper that "feels" right to you and will work with your desktop printer or printing process you have chosen.