Inkpress Media Duo Matte 80 Paper (12 x 12″, 50 Sheets)

123 reviews for Inkpress Media Duo Matte 80 Paper (12 x 12″, 50 Sheets)

1. Rated 5 out of 5

   Jerad Wisozk (verified owner) – February 13, 2023

   Work with LR and I get a good result for a low price.

2. Rated 5 out of 5

   Jed Koelpin (verified owner) – February 8, 2023

   The paper is reasonable priced and fit’s my wide format printed. Good quality stock. I’m always happy with the purchase experiences I’ve had from B&H.

3. Rated 2 out of 5

   Joannie Stehr (verified owner) – February 2, 2023

   I have been using this paper for several years because of the price point and weight/size needs, but Ive gotten more and more frustrated and disappointed with the quality. Its now at the point where I can hardly use the paper anymore and must find an alternative such as the Moab Lasal Matte. Normally when you buy a box of paper you just assume all the sheets are fine. Maybe a couple in a box are unusable just on sheer happenstance but it never crosses your mind that you should open the package and go through each sheet one at a time and inspect each one discriminately to ensure they are all usable — especially with paper that’s specifically designed for presentation printing and not generic copy paper. Well that’s what Ive had to do over the last 10 or so boxes Ive bought of any Inkpress Matte paper of the last 3-4 years. I would estimate 50-75% of sheets in every box I order are completely unusable. Why? Because so many sheets have imperfections and artifacts imbedded into the paper. Small grey and brown specs and black spots that are actually in the paper and not on the paper. Oftentimes 5-10 imperfections per sheet, per side. This includes black specs and tiny artifacts ON the paper that must be removed delicately by scraping them away with an exacto blade — which in half the cases damages that sheet of paper and makes it unusable anyway. Sometimes trying a delicate eraser can remove some of the specs. But at other times the imperfections are just manufactured into the paper and no amount of DIY fixing can solve the problem. I make prints where the whites are as important as the inked areas and cannot have specs and artifacts showing in the white. And when you try to print over the imperfections they just show through anyway or some imperfections eventually flake off (and so too the ink you printed on top of the imperfection), so now you have a white fleck showing in a sea of ink. I have no idea what the QC protocol is at Inkpress but they need to start printing paper in an air-filtrated pressurized room or something because I could spend 2-3x as much on paper and still come out better priced per print because Id be throwing away so many fewer sheets. In any 50 sheet box of Inkpress DuoMatte I buy, I have to toss 30-35 of them. I know it before I even open the box. Well, I’m at the point where I can’t waste this kind of money anymore so I’m going to switch to another manufacturer with the hope the QC is infinitely better. If and when the Inkpress sheets are without imperfections, the quality of the paper is perfectly fine and performs well. But those times are few and far between. Its not just a random box either. Like I said Ive ordered probably 15-20 boxes over the last 7-8 years. The QC has never been acceptable. Unfortunately you cant get a refund from B&H unless you get the box and visually inspect each sheet of paper the moment you get it, otherwise the refund period will expire. Thats ridiculous for paper because you don’t buy boxes of paper under the proviso you need to inspect each sheet to verify its okay. You buy paper and you stock it in your business and you pull it off the supply shelf when you need it. You grab sheets from the top of the box as you need them. There’s a minimum level of presumption that the paper will not be so imperfect that its practically unusable for its intended use. If this were cheap copy paper these artifacts and imperfections might not be a big deal but this product is not that. There needs to be more practical return policy on paper based on how its ordered and used. Spending hours inspecting 500 sheets of paper ON BOTH SIDES with a close eye to ensure its okay is not fair ask by any metric. Time is money and I no longer have the time or patience to continue accepting this product as acceptable.