Re: Has Epson glossy paper gone on a diet?

["Mike Slusher" <mslusher@bright.net>]

Are you sure it's not glossy FILM instead of glossy photo. The film is like
a mylar paper real thin. hey just an idea. Somebody could have packaged the
wrong paper under the wrong # The film is S041072 the regular glossy is
S041141.
               Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Snow <rssnow@1starnet.com>
To: <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: Has Epson glossy paper gone on a diet?


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Horses <support@horsesLLC.com>
> To: <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
> Sent: January 09, 2000 6:00 AM
> Subject: Has Epson glossy paper gone on a diet?
>
>
> > I just bought some Epson glossy photo paper from buy.com,
> and when I opened
> > the package, I did a double-take as soon as I pulled out
> the first sheet.
> >
> > I had been making some digital photo prints on an older
> set of Epson glossy
> > paper, which was nice and heavy and thick. The new paper
> is definitely MUCH
> > ligher and thinner; even thin enough to be a bit
> translucent, if you
> > hold it up to a weak-to-medium light source.
> >
> > In fact, there's so much of a difference that I went back
> and looked at my
> > older paper, just to make sure that I hadn't been printing
> on someone else's
> > by mistake. Sure enough, you can see the "Epson Photo
> Paper" imprint on the
> > back side. But on the "new" Epson paper, there's nothing
> imprinted on the back.
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed this? (I'm sure someone -must-
> have). I'm not
> > hallucinating, am I? Epson wouldn't just arbitrarily
> "improve" their glossy
> > paper by taking a heavy, opaque, paper that feels like a
> real photograph,
> > and turning it into something that feels so much
> thinner...
> >
> > Would they?
> >
> >
> > David Miller
> > Horses
> > -
>
>
> David:
>
> Sounds like you bought the Photo Glossy Paper instead of the
> Photo Paper.  The Glossy is very thin and, for me at least,
> does not print nearly as well as the Epson Photo Paper
> (new), and I sure don't like the weight!  S041141 is the
> heavier Photo paper.in the letter size.
>
> bob snow
>
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