have had pretty good luck w/ costco brand photo paper running through canon and epson printers, but on a lark, I picked up a package of kodak matte finish paper a few weeks ago, because it was way cheaper than the glossy stuff. Baby Buzz has all sorts of school projects that require color printing, so the [*cheap*] matte stuff seemed like a good fit... well, last weekend he needed to print about 20 pages of photos w/ text that he wrote, and I helped him a little bit w/ the formatting and spacing so that the pages could be pasted into a project book. I didn't notice anything too irregular when we printed the pages, but the next day, when we went to kinko's to cut an inch off of two sides of each page to fit properly into the book, I was amazed at how truly great the pictures looked after they had time to "cure"... the colors, saturation, depth, it was an incredible visual experience... because it was a kid project, I didn't bother to run any test prints or calibrate/correct anything; just set it matte paper, composite document, light print level, and minus 5 intensity. the prints looked decent coming off the printer, but got spectacular after aging. costco kodak matte photo paper is the new prime beef/cheddar cheese/cabernet combined!

anybody else w/ similar experiences? or is it the cheap [after coupon code] godaddy ink that makes the combo work so well?

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Sorry, I'm confused: you said you regularly use costco brand photo paper...then on a lark you picked up kodak brand matte finish...then you said "costco kodak matte photo paper" is great.

So is the paper you *normally* use costco kodak glossy...or costco glossy...or...? And is the one that worked great from costco or from kodak or...both?

I've been wondering about the Costco brand paper, so this will help.

Yep, I was confused too SteveO, I got half-way through that tome and thought it was just me, reads really strange.

BGnR

costco's "kirkland signature" brand "professional glossy injet photo paper" in both 8-1/2 X 11 and 4 X 6 is what usually gets fed to the masses for photo printing... they have others, notably the kodak glossy's at stouter prices, but the kodak matte finish was quite reasonable, and the results for "real" printing turned out way better than expected.

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Sometimes it is what it is...
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As I'm not going to run to costco to compare prices right now - but in general are the results, in your opinion, better for the costco paper or kodak matte paper?

Which of the two is cheaper on a per-print basis?