New Aurora Fine Art Inkjet Now Shipping

Its here, the new Aurora Fine Art Natural and White. Aurora is what you have come to expect from cotton watercolor inkjet paper:

• 100% Cotton rag content
• Beautiful white or natural shade
• Acid free - lignin free
• No OBAs in Natural
• Minimal OBAs in White
• 2-sided
• Semi-smooth surface
• Works with all printers including pigment inks like the UltraChrome K3 system

Aurora Fine Art will faithfully reproduce fine photography and artwork. With bold colors and deep blacks, you can use Aurora for many different projects including black & white inkjet printing.

We offer both Auroras in many different sheet sizes as well as rolls and pre-scored note cards. Packed in convenient 25 or 50 sheet boxes, you can stock up on this great inkjet paper at suprisingly low prices. Because Aurora goes direct from the mill, to Red River Paper, to you we can keep our costs and your price under control. With special introductory prices there is no reason not to give this great inkjet media a try.

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Blogging from WPPI

WPPI 2006 was a big show this year. We introduced our new and improved Aurora Fine Art paper and focused on our extensive line on inkjet greeting cards.

On the inkjet technology front, Canon showed off the Pro9000, Pro9500 and PROGRAF iPF5000. The first two are 13" wide desktop printers that we talked about here.

We got a look at all three printers up close. All are pretty impressive in terms look and size. Prints from these printers were in the booth printed on Canon media and Hahnemuhle Photo Rag (like our custom made Dourian Fine Art paper). Color saturation and detail were impressive. Black & white photos looked crisp and had a pleasing neutral tone. Overall the machines look to be impressive and may indeed offer Epson Pro level printers stiff competition.

The iPF5000 is indeed a beast, coming in at 90.5lbs! Its a 17" wide, pro-level printer, aimed right at the Epson 4800. Here are a few feature bullet points:

* 12 color Lucia (tm) pigmented inks - includes red, green, blue "spiker color" inks

* 4 black inks on-board - matte black, photo black, and two light blacks. No changing carts when you want to go from satin to an art paper.

* Dual print heads with a whopping 30,000 nozzels! A current Canon ip9900 desktop printer only has a little over 6000 nozzels.

* Replaceable print heads

* Roll, paper cassette, and single sheet feed for up to 17" wide media

Canon Printer Sale

Get one of the best greeting card inkjet printers available today for $120 and free shipping!

For a limited time, Red River is selling the Canon ip6600d for $150 with a $30 mail in rebate and free ground shipping. If you have been looking for a dedicated card printer, or need to expand your card printing capacity this is the machine for you.

Get the details and order one today.