Hewlett Packard 51634Y Premium Ink Jet Paper

Where this paper really falls down is its high-price. There are many other brands of coated papers with equally good, equally SHARP, equally BRIGHT COLOUR performance in the matte-coated paper realm. Some of those other papers are even coated on both sides so that you can print equally well on both sides. I know; I have bought over ten different brands of matte-coated papers to test them before using in higher-volume printing with the HP Deskjet C6578 family of cartridges (and refill ink).

I would like to point out that if you use this paper, you should use it only for one-sided printing. While you can print on both sides, the uncoated side will appear different (even if it is black-only text) when compared to the printing on the coated side. For such purposes, I recommend a paper that is coated on both sides, and there are quite a few that are (and lower-priced than this HP paper).

This paper seems slightly reactive with HP ink. An immediately-printed image seems to slightly change in colour over a one-day period (when comparing an older image to the same freshly-printed image).


Great paper, but not a great value   June 11, 2000
tropic_of_criticism
10 out of 12 found this review helpful

While it's true that this paper has a high brightness rating, its utility is plagued by the question of market. Whom is it trying to reach? It's labeled to be specifically useful to HP printer owners, so if you're not in that group, you can keep on shopping. But if you do have an HP printer, one of the things you'll immediately notice is how great they are, by-and-large, at the job of reproducing color. So good have been the models released in the last two years, in fact, that it's actually quite difficult for the average layperson to see the difference between work completed on this and similarly high-contrast paper made by Xerox or other, more traditional paper manufacturers. So then the question becomes, why would you spend so much money for 200 sheets of this paper, when you could elsewhere get equally bright paper at higher quantities for a lower price?

I'm still not sure of the answer to that one.


Great for Graphics   March 17, 2001
C D Archer (Evanston, IL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This paper is a bit pricey... but it gives great results. I use it on my Epson 740 injet printer & this paper is strides ahead of the Espon paper I have tried. I'd buy stock in this one!