What is best paper for color laser photo prints?

[hackmole]

Could one of you experts kindly tell me what the best paper is to get for color laser photo prints?

 

[13Gigatons]

It would be better that you test some photo paper yourself and see what results you like. I personally like really glossy photo paper. Office Depot used to sell some pretty affordable paper with their brand.

 

[sdifox]

which printer are we talking about?

 

[hackmole]

which printer are we talking about?

It's the Brother HL-3180CDW color laser printer. I didn't do much research when I purchased this except by word of mouth that it was a good printer at a reasonable price which was $228. The scanner is nice and fast too except for its limitation in size to 8.5 by 13 or so. It will scan directly to PDFs which saves a lot of time from my old scanner which would save to jpgs and then I had to convert to pdfs which was kind of a pain since the order never came out right. I think I scanned a 350 page book in 1.5 hours. Not bad. It broke up the two page book scan into one page each which my older scanner didn't do.
And to answer the other guy, I can't buy 20 different types of paper to test each one to see which is the best which is why I asked the question here.

 

[sdifox]

It's the Brother HL-3180CDW color laser printer. I didn't do much research when I purchased this except by word of mouth that it was a good printer at a reasonable price which was $228. The scanner is nice and fast too except for its limitation in size to 8.5 by 13 or so. It will scan directly to PDFs which saves a lot of time from my old scanner which would save to jpgs and then I had to convert to pdfs which was kind of a pain since the order never came out right. I think I scanned a 350 page book in 1.5 hours. Not bad. It broke up the two page book scan into one page each which my older scanner didn't do.
And to answer the other guy, I can't buy 20 different types of paper to test each one to see which is the best which is why I asked the question here.

Have you actually tried to print out a photo on plain paper? It is not great

Paper can add luminance, but it cannot do anything about the quality of the print.

 

[13Gigatons]

And to answer the other guy, I can't buy 20 different types of paper to test each one to see which is the best which is why I asked the question here.

To be truthfully there aren't that any brands of laser photo paper. They aren't really built for it. I would first try Brother laser photo paper first since it's designed for it.

 

[shortylickens]

Just laser paper. You dont need special color laser paper. The toner is the same, color or black.