Replicating the appearance and feel of a traditional F-surface darkroom paper, Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper aims to provide users with a beautiful soft gloss finish for their digital prints. A fiber base offers a professional feel with a weight of 325 gsm and thickness of 13 mil, making it an excellent choice for galleries and exhibitions. Also, by utilizing some optical brightening agents the paper is able to reach a whiteness of 147% and a brightness of 111%. This makes it possible to create prints with deep blacks and subtle tonal gradations, suitable for advanced black-and-white printing as well as long-lasting color prints. Additionally, this paper is instant drying.
This paper is available here as a 25-pack of 24 x 30″ sheets.
Elmira West (verified owner) –
great for art reproductions, can even be worked upon with acrylic paint after printing.
Gerardo Leffler (verified owner) –
Very white finish
Lizeth Considine (verified owner) –
After printing out some of my images on this paper. I find it to be more vivid and have nice aesthetic rendering that is more pleasing than Epson’s Glossy and Luster offerings. This paper renders warmer than Epson’s Luster, appears to make greens a bit lusher. When a value is 100% white, there is less appearance of lack of gloss differential versus glossy due to the small scale paper stipple, which I find appealing.
Hassie Nicolas (verified owner) –
This is a great paper for fine art photography prints with excellent white.
Marquise Hodkiewicz (verified owner) –
I have used this paper since I started learning photography a couple of years ago. It has a nice weight to it, and the ink is never too much. The print quality is amazing, would definitely recommend!
Merritt Nitzsche (verified owner) –
My paper of choice for best quality prints.
Nicolette Ferry (verified owner) –
The paper is thick and produces nice vivid prints.
Janelle Sawayn (verified owner) –
Much happier with Exhibition Fiber than with Lustre, my previous standard paper for printing color landscapes on the 2880 printer. Good whites and deep shadows. I also tested Harmon Gloss FB. These two papers were almost identical, but close inspection (with my admittedly non-technical eye) showed that some ink seemed to be resting on top of the Harmon surface rather than merging properly with the paper as with Exhibition Fiber.
Celia Heathcote (verified owner) –
This is the finest paper I’ve found todate. Color rang is exellent and the finish is not to glossy.I use to us Luster but not any longer!
Ashtyn White (verified owner) –
As a Jeff Schewe fan I take serious his reccomendations on high quality paper. I was astonished at the difference after making my first print! If you haven’t taken the leap into this level of quality, get on it!
Glenda Legros (verified owner) –
My favorite non-mat finish paper. Mostly print color on this paper but exhibits B&W beautifully as well…
Sydnie Brown (verified owner) –
I’ve been struggling for years trying to find the right combination of printer, paper, print settings and ICC profiles to create prints that I would consider exhibition quality. Now that I have my workflow tweaked, I am producing 16×20 prints that my clients consider museum quality. There is something very special about the surface of the Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper that immediately evokes a high quality and special feel response. Not quite glossy and certainly not matte, the surface has an unmistakable fine art feel to it, but it does require adhering to a consistent workflow. The paper is not one of the printer default standards bundled with the operating system. I print with the Epson 3800, using a Mac, and downloaded ICC profiles from Epson specifically for this paper (it comes up as SP 3800 EFP_PK2880). In the printer dialog box check Let Photoshop Decide Colors and then select the appropriate ICC profile. In the printer settings box in the print driver, choose Ultra Premium Photo Paper Lustre and set reproduction at 2880×1440. This is critical since there is no setting for Exhibition Fiber Paper and this selection tells the printer to select Glossy Black ink. I have also found the best results with a 360 dpi setting when sizing the prints and also found that nik’s Sharpener Pro 3.0 gave just the right amount of sharpening, even to continuous tone areas with smooth bokeh. The paper is expensive and requires a craftsman-like approach but it rewards the diligent.
Lonnie Wiza (verified owner) –
I used this paper for limited edition prints at a gallery exhibition. Love it!
Gustave Hane (verified owner) –
I was blown away by the dynamic color range of this glossy paper. I have strayed away from glossy finish paper in favor of matt paper however the vibrant range of color on this paper is amazing!
Gavin Botsford (verified owner) –
It doesn’t even worth it. I used a lot of papers and this one is the worst paper I ever used. I bought this paper for my portfolio uses but it’s not good. Why? 1. I used Epson Stylus Pro 4900 but this paper have a lot of scratches! WTH. Any other papers had no problem but only this paper had scratch issues. Now, I have to re-print with other paper, Moab Lasal luster, for better quality again. 2. Texture is very un-unify. I really hate this paper because of that. It made my pics to be quite messy because of this kind of weird texture. 3. Because of these reasons, it’s not worth $25 or more.
Marilie Barrows (verified owner) –
I use this paper in the majority of my gallery exhibitions. It has a nice presence in gallery lighting. I like to spend my time taking photos and marketing my work. I do not enjoy monkeying with a gazillion printer/monitor settings on my computer. Since I own an Epson large format printer, it is nice that everything is geared up to go and I can get outstanding prints with minimal tweaking. This paper has an elegant look and feel that gallery owners like in presenting to their clients. My only beef about this paper is that it scratches easily. I use a clear u/v spray over all my prints to ensure that I do not lose quality with prints on this paper. This is an excellent, cost effective paper to get your prints out and sold to the public.
Lela Crooks (verified owner) –
I have an Epson 2880 and want to print 16×24 and so I got a roll of the EFP and cut it into 25 sheets and flattened them out. Works great, but it would be nice if they made 17×25 paper.
Kiley Bayer (verified owner) –
A very nice paper. Very bright, nice whites. Solid stock. I’ve been trying a lot of fiber papers lately and my favorite is still Harman Gloss FB AI followed by Hahnemuhle Photo Baryta. But this is still a very nice paper.
Kiarra Romaguera (verified owner) –
This is my paper of choice when I want some gloss to my photos. Great color rendition, good weight.
Camille Leffler (verified owner) –
When it works it’s great. It has a lovely, smooth surface. Regrettably, about 50% of my printing attempts with 8.5 x 11 paper were ruined by either 1) black spots on the paper as it came from the box, 2) feeding problems (mostly but not entirely fixed by setting my Epson 3880’s platen gap to wide) or 3) white specks that appeared on the paper after printing, as either bits of the paper surface flaked off or loose flakes that I had missed in my pre-printing air-bulb dusting of the paper came off. Very frustrating. Not sure if I’m going to continue to use it after the batch I bought from B&H during the last Epson rebates runs out.