Is there some reason to use matte over glossy paper or vice-versa?
Most fine art photographers seem to be printing on matte these days. A. First: combined with an archival inkset, the better matte papers are rated as having a greater life-expectancy than RC-type photo papers. (See the Wilhelm Imaging Research web site for more details.) If you are using a non-archival inkset, this is a non-issue. Before digital and inkjet photographs commercial prints from film were almost always made on resin-coated (RC) paper and art photo prints on fibre photo paper. These are frequently stamped with a pattern of fine wrinkles to break up the glare, and the result is variously called lustre, pearl, or semi-gloss finish. Fuji Crystal Archive is an example of such a paper; it and similar papers by Fuji, Kodak, and Ilford were the choice of nearly all photographers who exhibited prints … until now. Such photographers tend to continue to use photo paper if they’ve switched to inkjet printing. Examples like landscape photographers Joe Cornish and Joseph Holmes come to
