Greeting Card Media???

[Melody]

I have good luck with Avery blank card paper, I use Announcements to create
them. ~Melody

Keith Clark wrote in message <366A0D57...@spiritone.com>...
>Has anyone had good luck with any consumer level greeting card kits for
>inkjet printers?
>
>I tried the Kodak ones, and they don't work. They curl, warp and wrinkle
>to the point of being unusable, even using the settings Kodak
>recommends. They just don't hold up under the ink load. Kodak should be
>ashamed of themselves for putting their name on that crap.
>
>So what works? I don't have time or money to waste trying them all?
>
>I was really hoping to do Christmas cards myself this year...
>
>Keith
>
>http://www.spiritone.com/~kclark/
>
>
>

[Len G. Carpenter]

I use Hammermill COpyPlus Cover stock here in Canada. Works great in
my HP722c.

On 6 Dec 1998 04:53:26 GMT, Keith Clark

[John Mills]

We have a water color stock with matching A-10 envelopes that is very
popular with our customers for printing greeting cards because it allows
both photographic images (with excellent detail for uncoated stock). and
double side printing. It is also very economical when compared to most Water
Color card stocks.

It's called U-INK Textured Artists Card Stock .and is available on-line at:

http://www.weink.com/scart/ijmedia/pf/wwcs.htm

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Keith Clark wrote in message <366A0D57...@spiritone.com>...

[Keith Clark]

Thanks John,

I placed an order ...hopefully it'll arrive soon. Watercolor stock has always
been a fine art favorite of mine. I love playing.

Ended up doing Christmas cards on the glossy HP stock. I hadn't used it before
and it was a lot closer to what I had been hoping the Kodak media would do. The
recipients have been calling to tell me how much they liked them...

One thing though: if anyone is going use the stuff with an Epson printer, you
MUST print the back of the card FIRST. Otherwise the rollers will destroy your
image on the front. Learned that one the hard way.

What I did was print from American Greetings Create-a-Card, with the printer
off. Using the Epson print manager, I saved the font page file in the queue, and
also the back page file. Then I closed Create-a-Card and loaded the media and
used the queue controls to print. Only way to do it since Create-a-Card insists
on printing the front side first...

Keith

[Murray Zaharia]

I tried your watercolor card stock in my Epson EX and it was terrible,
absolutely brutal! Unusable in my opinion! I get much better results using
watercolor paper from local artists supply shop.

John Mills wrote in message <74e7u6$1...@world6.bellatlantic.net>...

[Keith Clark]

Oh, I disagree.

I just received a sample pack today, and as cold pressed textured watercolor
stock goes, I think it's very good.

Not every image will look good printed on such media, but that's where artistic
ability comes in...choosing the right images, in some cases optimizing an image
for the media in Photoshop.... I don't want images printed on watercolor paper
to look like photos! I want people to wonder and appreciate the image!

I love it when someone says "what is that and how'd you do it...it's
wonderful"...which they do a lot.

My only complaints are that I wish it were a little heavier, and I'd like it
better if it was pre-scored.

I'd even be interested in a rougher, more random texture, sort of like what you
get with hand made papers.

I've been developing images that look wonderful on rough media and I'll be
ordering more of these guys' stock.

Happy holidays!

Keith