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This finish on this paper is incredible. Using the Canon P100 and this paper has made incredible prints for frames. Just outstanding!Great qualityPrints picture nicelyCanon products are always good. After creating a profile with a color munki to match it with my monitor the prints are beautiful.Great paper quality and a good value for the money. I’ve had bad results on “bargain” paper. Spend a little more and you’ll be happy with your prints on this paper.Could not find this paper anywhere in the area. Needed for getting a low-gloss print of older or flatter colored images. Pricey, so make sure you have selected the right print options B4 starting a big print run.I have finally purchased a box of the Luster paper and think it is great. I love the Canon Semi Gloss paper I really like this paper for photo printing on my Canon MX870. I had previously been using el cheapo OfficeMax glossy photo paper and prints were okay, but I had to do a lot of finagling with develop settings in Lightroom to get the color/contrast dialed in. With this paper, though, what you see is pretty much what you get.Here's a few tips if you happen to use Adobe Lightroom on a Mac to edit and print your photos (may apply to other editing software, as well) and a Canon Photo printer:• Create a virtual copy of your photo first, then crop for aspect and make other "print-only" adjustments.• Before you enter Soft Proofing, assuming you don't have horribly clipped shadows/highlights, adjust your "Blacks" and "Whites" sliders so that your brightest whites and darkest blacks are 3-5% inside each end of the histogram (blacks at 3-5% and whites at 95-97%) using clipping indicators and the eyedropper tool.• Enter the Develop module and check "Soft Proofing". Since you've already created a virtual copy, choose to use this copy for proofing.• Set your proof settings below the histogram before making any adjustments. Choose your printer profile with the suffix PR3. This lets your printer driver know that you are using your specific printer with Canon Pro Photo paper.• You may be tempted, based on the appearance of the image in Soft Proofing mode, to warm the image up via the white balance controls. I would suggest you print the image as-is first and adjust as needed. The Soft Proofing give the image a cool appearance, at least on my monitor.• Use to page clipping indicator in top right of histogram to view out-of-gammet colors (most likely red and/or green hues) and use the HSL Saturation adjustments to reign them in until the clipping indication on the image is nearly gone. I would also suggest that if you have to desaturate a lot of a specific cold, that you desaturate its compliment by about half (IE: if you have to desaturate Magenta by 50%, desaturate green by 25%, as well).• Enter the Print module and select your size/layout.• Choose "Print Settings" on the bottom left to bring up the settings dialog box. Select your printer and, for presets, select "Default Settings". We'll adjust those next.• Below the page range selection, choose "Color Matching" from the selection and select "Canon Color Matching". Choose "Quality and Media" and select "Photo Paper Plus Semi-Gloss" for media type and "High" for print Quality. I would also suggest that, if you have the option to select a paper source, you use the feeding path that bends the paper the least. On mine it is via the rear tray, as opposed to the lower paper cassette.• Go back up to presets, select "Save Current Settings...", name it something like Canon Semi-Gloss/Luster so you can use it again, and finally save to exit the Print Settings dialog.• In the "Print Job" section along the right, be sure to set the color management profile to "Managed by Printer", since we changed that setting in previous steps.You should be pretty much good to go, save for some test printing adjustments to taste. Cheers!Very good paper with a slight glossy finish and a very fine texture. The only thing to be careful is to know on which side to print; one side is whiter while the other side is stickier; you should print on the “stickier” side not the whiter side. The ink will “stick” to the sticker side and will not stick to the white side. From experience, I can say that printing on the white side produces a blurry mess. The information regarding which side to print, unfortunately, is not provided by Canon.I'm a landscape photographer and I sell prints of my photos using a Canon Pixma Pro 100 printer. I wanted to get the highest possible quality out of my prints and printer, so I bought both Canon ink and paper. While I was admittedly fairly reluctant to spend over $100 on a package of only 50 sheets of paper, after having created a number of prints using this paper, I can confidently say that it is well worth the money! This paper is beautiful and it makes for incredible quality prints...way better than anything I've ever received from a print shop! I wish Canon's Luster paper was available in a larger selection of sizes because I would definitely buy only this type of paper if I could. But since I need to print in a variety of sizes, I had to order additional paper sizes from Red River. I cannot recommend this Luster paper enough!Pues yo las estoy usando para imprimir en ellas los anuncios que hago para mi tiendita.Creo que es una mejor opción que el papel normal pues el acabado de los colores es más vibrante, además de que resiste la humedad y el sol por más tiempo.This is a fantastic paper for printing photographs, reminding me of the Ilford Pearl Multigrade paper I used to use in the darkroom. Both colour and black and white prints really sing with this paper, although it is a bit thinner than what I would ideally like. In terms of product I would give this 4.5 out of 5.Sadly the product packaging from Canon is extremely lightweight and simply pressing the box with your hand leaves indentations that may or may not crease the fantastic paper inside. Look at the second picture. Nothing at all like the heavyweight boxes that Epson use for their paper, or Ilford Galerie use for theirs. What was worse though was the absolutely unacceptable packaging material by Amazon. There was hardly any protection inside the box and, what can you imagine was the result? A damaged box. Which I can't get a replacement for because Amazon only refunds you, and meanwhile the product has gone up $20. In just 5 days! So not at all happy with Amazon, your shipping, and your return policy. Absolutely LOVE the product inside the crappy box.I will say that finding this product is very difficult. Simply typing in the product code (LU-101) does not really help, nor using the term Luster. Just my experience.A great photo paper that has a nice mix in between of Glossy, and Matte qualities to it.Not to overly glaring and has a niceGives the contrast qualities of that of an image printed on Glossy Paper without the glare & is fingerprint resistant.Was initially reluctant on the cost of the paper, but for its cost for the 50 sheet pack, it was a great pay off.I use this mainly for displaying & for Prints of my coloured digital illustrations.Less than retail cost and was received well packaged
