HP 932c and Great White paper compatibility

[MattK]

Has anyone ever used Great White Imaging & Photo paper with the HP 932C?
None of the settings I use seem to produce a decent print compared to my
Lexmark on the same paper. This paper seems to be most like the HP Photo
quality matte paper which says it's also sold as the HP Brochure & Flyer
paper, matte. So I tried both HP Photo and HP Brochure settings and it
comes out with 2 completely different looking pics. With the Photo setting
the colors are better but a lot of the detail is lost and with the Brochure
setting everything is way too yellow. Why would the same paper have 2
different settings that produce completely different output. I've also
tried almost every other paper setting but just can't get it to look right.
Is there a difference between HP Photo and the Other Photo settings? They
look almost identical except in the blacks which made me to believe that
maybe the HP Photo is using black ink. I also printed a copy on my Kodak
glossy paper and everything looked perfect. It had the right colors and
didn't loose nearly as much detail. This is not bad paper. On my Lexmark
(set to coated paper) it could print extremely sharp detail. In fact the
text looked laser quality and color quality never varied greatly between
different papers.

I really don't understand HP's paper settings. They have no setting for
coated paper and all the paper settings except Inkjet and Brochure have
almost the same color scheme but except for the too much yellow the Inkjet
and Brochure do produce the best prints on this paper. Why did they decide
to increase the yellow so much with those 2 papers settings? It's stupid.

I can post the picture I'm using to test with if anyone wants to see it.

[keith nuttle]

We have been using Office Depot premium photo paper with good results.
To my eye the quality of the photo is equivalent to the HP premium photo
plus.

I use the paper setting on my HP932, by ignoring the HP part of the
setting. If the 932 says "HP premium photo paper Plus" and I use the
setting as "premium photo paper Plus".

The diferent setting are an attempt to gauge the absorptivity of the ink
into the paper. Some papers absorb the paper into the paper structure,
other papers with hard non absorptive surfaces will use less ink because
it stays on the surface.

[robkamel]

Very well explained, kudos to you.

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[suebr]

I have used the Epson paper and love it...
I set it for other photo paper..
Sue
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[MattK]

"suebr" <su...@charter.net> wrote in
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> I have used the Epson paper and love it...
> I set it for other photo paper..

Is it glossy or matte paper? Like I said I'm having no trouble with glossy
paper just matte which is what I mainly use because it's only 10c a sheet.

[MattK]

> I use the paper setting on my HP932, by ignoring the HP part of the
> setting. If the 932 says "HP premium photo paper Plus" and I use the
> setting as "premium photo paper Plus".

The problem I'm having isn't with glossy paper. With my glossy Kodak
everything is fine using HP Premium Plus. The problem is with my mattte
coated paper.

>
> The diferent setting are an attempt to gauge the absorptivity of the
> ink into the paper. Some papers absorb the paper into the paper
> structure, other papers with hard non absorptive surfaces will use
> less ink because it stays on the surface.

That's what it should do but for some reason it changes the amount of
yellow whenever you select any of the Inkjet paper settings except HP
Bright White. If it wasn't for the shift towards yellow then those
settings would give me the best results.