Red River Pecos River Gloss Cards 230gsm
An ultra smooth, gloss printable inkjet card. It's high gloss finish and bright white tone makes for excellent contrast and image detail.
Made in the USA by by Red River Paper
Red River Linen Cards 240gsm
Give your images an elegant look and feel with this linen textured, acid-free, printable inkjet card.
Sample of this paper available in:
Red River Cards Sample Pack
Description
Red River Linen cards achieve their elegant finish by taking a premium matte photographic paper and embossing it with a delicate linen-look texture.
The linen texture is smooth and subtle enough to retain a high level of image sharpness, and the optical brighteners in the substrate ensure vivid colours and deep blacks. This classic, bright white card stock is ideal for art reproduction, portrait style photography, watercolour images, greeting cards and invitations.
River Linen is composed of 100% pure alpha cellulose, making it acid and lignin free. When printed on, River Linen takes on a pleasing lustre-like sheen.
Red River cards come pre-scored for an effortless fold and the 240gsm medium weight card stock feeds easily into most printers.
(N.B. Accessories are only available in 100 packs).
Dimensions:
- Size Unfolded: 178 x 254mm (7"x10")
- Size Folded: 127 x 178mm (5"x7")
- Matching Envelopes: 132 x185mm
- Matching Clearbags: 151 x 197mm (5.94" x 7.75" - our Large size)
(generous fit for a single card/envelope, designed to also fit sets)
Images on cards: "Wolf" by Laurie Excell and "Terracotta Pots" by Helene Glassman
Construction
Fibre Based
Substrate
Alpha Cellulose
Paper Weight
240 gsm
Surface Texture
Matte, Textured
White Tone
Cool White
Optical Brighteners?
Specifications
Please note: Specifications are provided as a guide only.
We try very hard to keep these up to date and correct, but if a particular specification is really critical to you, then please double check the specification directly with the manufacturer. Some features may of course have caveats not fully described here.
To get more information about a particular specification, use the arrow to get a 'Specxplanation'.
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ConstructionFibre Based
Papers are constructed in two main ways:
Resin Coated papers are the modern approach. These use less fibre and replace the fibre with resin (a nice name for plastic). This means these papers are cheap, strong and robust, but tend to be less attractive to the touch and accept less ink. They tend to have a clinical appearance and it's hard to write on the back of them. They tend to be popular in the consumer and wedding/portrait markets.
Fibre Based papers are traditional papers made without plastic, using only plant fibres. These tend to accept more ink and have a more attractive appearance, and these are the papers most of our customers favour.
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SubstrateAlpha Cellulose
What is the paper base made from?
Possibilities include:
- Wood Pulp - the most common and cheapest
- Alpha Cellulose - the best part of wood pulp, separated. Generally tested as archival as cotton etc
- Cotton - the most common fine art paper fibre
- Bamboo - an ecologically friendly alternative to cotton
- Mulberry & more - many other plant fibres can be used to make archival paper
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Paper Weight240 gsm
In 'gsm' - grams per square metre.
Not, technically, the same as paper thickness, but obviously correlated. The heft of the paper. European art papers are traditionally generally around the 300gsm mark. Asian papers historically tended to be lighter, 100 to 200 gsm.
Papers with a higher GSM tend to have more opacity, i.e. you see less through them.
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Surface TextureMatte, Textured
What is the surface texture of the paper?
We divide this into six groups. We go by the appearance of the actual paper and not what the manufacturer might label the box with!
- Matte - smooth and texture
- Gloss - semi, gloss, and high gloss
- Double Sided - special case papers that are printable to full quality on both sides.
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White ToneCool White
What is the white tone of the paper?
- Cool White - a paper with a distinctly cool (blue) tone
- Bright White - A paper that is brighter than non brightened papers, but not overly cool
- White - a natural clean white tone for an art paper - most Photo Rag papers fall here
- Warm - a distinctly warmer, creamier paper
- Pearlescent - a distinct warm grey tone (generally found only with metallic papers)
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CoatingMicroporous
These days almost all papers are microporous coated - meaning they'll accept inks from both dye based and pigment printers well.
In years past, some papers had a swellable coating - designed to give a greater life to prints with dye based inks but this approach has fallen out of favour.
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Compatible InksPigment Inks (use matte black)
Dye Based Inks
What ink type (dye and/or pigments) can you use with the paper?
Also, if using pigment inks and you have a choice, should you use the Matte Black or Photo Black ink?
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Paper Type In DriverSee this article
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Optical Brighteners?
Does the paper contain chemicals in it to brighten its appearance?
More on this here.
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Full Specifications
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