Where to buy your Fine art paper
Trying to fine where to buy your paper and ink can be a long and tirsome process. Since I’m quite a heavy user of both ink and various papers I have wittled down my list of suppliers for the best price incuding P+P
My R2400 uses 8 carts and it’s not shy on ink usage so getting a cheap reliable supplier is a must for any user. I normally keep a stock of the most heavily used colours so I tend to only order when I’ve fitted a new cart.
Lewis in my porch printed on Innova ultra smooth gloss
I have a varied stock of paper and use a different surface depending on the image and where it is going. Currently I have very little of my bog standard Ilford smooth pearl paper in both A4 and A3+, plenty of innova cotton rag, fibaprint ultra smooth gloss, fibaprint semi-matt and Harman FB matt paper.
I needed to get hold of some harman warm tone gloss ASAP but I could not find any places with it in stock. A quick phone to my contact at Harman and I was pointed in the direction of a couple of stores. I checked the prices online and gave RK photographic a call and spoke to Claire who was very polite and chatty (plus she liked Glasgow). Claire took my details and sent me my paper which I recived next day at my lab via a courier.
Ullswater fuji neopan 400CN + canon eos5
I’ve complied my list below with links for R2400 ink and my paper suppliers. These are based on price incl P+P and service.
R2400 OEM ink play.com
Epson A4 & A3+ paper 7 day shop
Fotospeed A4 & A3+ paper RK Photographic
Hahnemuhle A4 & A3+ paper Speed Graphic
Harman A4 & A3+ paper RK Photographic
Ilford Smooth A4 & A3+ paper 7 day shop
Innova Art A4 & A3+ paper Online photopaper
Olmec A4 &A3 paper 7 day shop
Permajet A4 & A3+ paper Warehouseexpress
Somerset A4 & A3+ paper online photopaper
May 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Thanks for all the help in this site Found really helpful great to know people still offer help to others
June 27th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Thanks for your list of suppliers….it’s very interesting to compare service and prices.
I purchase Innova paper from http://www.fineartfoto.co.uk who also advertises on Ebay.
Harman papers from http://www.mathersoflancashire.co.uk
Harman and Permajet from http://www.morco.uk.com
Hope this helps
Dave
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Thanks for the link to our website. We are constantly upgrading our product range and we hope that we can stay competitive. Our postage prices for over a kilo is only £6.50 which is a very good price where we do not charge over the top for 24 hour service!!! Fed-Ex!!!
Any comments of any type are welcomed!!!
Clare
Manager
R K Photographic