Epson media products are designed to create vibrant prints and inspire creativity. Whether needed for photographic prints, fine-art reproductions, giclee prints, proofing, display graphics, or signage, Epson has the perfect media for your project.
Epson has a broad range of paper products for fine art printing applications. Being the first affordable printing solution to provide giclee-quality, fine art prints, Epson developed high-quality watercolor papers, canvas’, and gorgeous photo papers that offer truly archival prints with beautiful and unique characteristics.
We’ll introduce you to some of the more popular products below to get you started. Should you need more information or are interested in purchasing, drop us a line, and we’ll be happy to help.
Popular Epson Media Products
Cold Press Bright
- Matte finish, textured
- ISO brightness: 96%
- Opacity: 98%
Cold Press Bright media paper offers incredible texture and hues and a broad color gamut with a great dMax offering deep, rich blacks.
Cold Press Natural Paper
- Matte finish, textured
- ISO brightness: 90%
- Opacity: 98%
Cold Press Natural offers high-quality texture, exceptional black density, and color gamut. This paper has no optical brightening agents.
Exhibition Canvas Gloss – for Fine Art Print
- Gloss surface
- Weight: 420 gsm
- Thickness: 22 mil
Exhibition Canvas Gloss media paper offers searing colors, intense contrast, and deep blacks. It’s ready to be stretched for gallery wrap, with the great flexibility and tensile strength of its reinforcing elastic polymers. Many users do not find the need to put an overcoating on this canvas due to its extremely durable and scratch resistant surface.
Exhibition Canvas Matte
- Matte surface
- Weight: 395 gsm
- Thickness: 23 mil
To prevent cracking when stretching for gallery wrap, elastic polymers are used to improve the tensile strength and flexibility of this gracefully textured cotton-poly canvas. This matte canvas is very affordable and can be coated with Marabu Canvas Guard UV coating in gloss, satin, semi-gloss or matte surfaces if you would like to change the surface look.
Exhibition Canvas Satin
- Satin surface
- Weight: 430 gsm
- Thickness: 23 mil
Exhibition Canvas Satin media paper is equipped with the same flexibility-optimizing, strength-bolstering elastic polymers used in the other Exhibition Canvases, this featuring a graceful texture.
GS Canvas Gloss For Solvent Ink Printers
- Gloss finish
- Opacity: 98.5%
- Basis weight: 414 gsm
- Thickness: 20.1 mil
Even when you are producing at a high output volume, you maintain your image quality with this canvas. You get rich blacks and an extremely broad color gamut with this Epson media’s smooth and consistent surface.
GS Canvas Satin
- Poly/cotton blend
- Satin finish
- Weight: 414 gsm
- Thickness: 20 mi
You can prepare this canvas for different display applications by stretching. Experience dark blacks with industry-best Dmax, for striking fine-art reproduction on a satin finish
Hot Press Bright Paper
- Matte finish, smooth
- ISO brightness: 96%
- Opacity: 98%
Offering two sheets with incredibly smooth surfaces, this Epson paper is cylinder-mold-made using 100% fine-art cotton. Photographs with a lot of detail look amazing as they retain the detail due to the smooth surface.
Hot Press Natural Paper
- Matte finish, smooth
- ISO brightness: 90%
- Opacity: 98%
Hot Press Natural Paper is extremely smooth on both sides, is made 100% out of cotton, and is acid-free. While there are no OBAs in this paper, it still offers a wide color gamut and great dMax (black point).
Legacy Etching
- 100% cotton fiber
- ISO brightness: 96%
- Whiteness: 99
This Epson media combines a technologically advanced approach to paper manufacturing with an effort to mimic the handmade paper and etching pads that were used historically.
Legacy Fibre
- 100% cotton fiber
- ISO brightness: 96%
- Whiteness: 98
One online reviewer said that Epson Legacy Fibre Paper is much better than any other smooth matte paper he has used. He appreciated it for its sharpness and colors — preferring its matte finish to reflective glossy surfaces. Epson recommends this media as a dual-purpose fine art and photographic paper, given its matte finish and extraordinarily smooth surface.
Legacy Textured
- Mold-made base – 100% cotton fiber
- ISO brightness: 96%
- Whiteness: 99
One customer compared the paper to Velvet Fine Art Paper: handling and loading the paper into the printer was easier with Epson Legacy Textured Paper. Legacy Textured was a supplier Epson media, he said. This watercolor paper base, which is mold-made, drives the grains of cotton fiber to randomly lie down, minimizing curl.
Somerset Velvet for Epson 505 gsm
- ISO brightness: 96%
- Opacity: 99%
- Basis weight: 505 gsm
- Thickness: 36 mil
This heavier version of the media is also appreciated as stemming from the tradition of handmade paper stretching back to the 1700s. This acid-free, 100% cotton paper is designed for use with UltraChrome™ or Archival™ Inks.
UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper 250 gsm
- Base material: 100% cotton rag
- ISO brightness: 90%
- Opacity: 98%
- Basis weight: 250 gsm
- Thickness: 15 mil
This Epson fine art media is legitimately archival, pH buffered using calcium carbonate and free of chlorine, lignin, and acid. Epson Archival™, UltraChrome™, and Photographic Dye Inks should all work excellently on the two sheets of this cylinder-mold-made paper’s extremely smooth surface.
UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper 325 gsm
- Base material: 100% cotton rag
- ISO brightness: 90%
- Opacity: 98%
- Basis weight: 325 gsm
- Thickness: 18 mil
This mold-made fine art paper is pH buffered using calcium carbonate, as well as being free of chlorine, acid, and lignin. To make the 100% cotton media more versatile, it is coated on either side for a strikingly smooth finish.
Velvet Fine Art Paper
- Basic weight: 260 gsm
- Thickness: 19 mil
- ISO Brightness: 94%
- Basis Opacity: 97%
Prints can better evoke the sense of a painting when displayed on this paper’s high-quality surface, according to Art Wolfe. Velvet Fine Art Paper brings together Enhanced Matte coating, for a better D-Max and color gamut, with 100% fine-art cotton.
Somerset Velvet for Epson 255 gsm
- Base Material: 100% cotton rag
- ISO brightness: 96%
- Opacity: 95%
- Basis weight: 255 gsm
- Thickness: 19 mil
The Somerset name has been synonymous with quality since the handmade paper of the 18th century. By taking this brand, beloved by printmakers and artists, and giving it an ink-jet coating, Epson created a product that serious printmakers have embraced.
Watercolor Paper Radiant White
- Opacity: 96%
- Basis weight: 190 gsm
- Thickness: 11.5 mil
With a different appearance from resin-coated photo paper, Watercolor Paper Radiant White offers a textured display of graphic design and photographs. This heavyweight option gives you the impression of fine art paper without the high cost.
Your Epson Fine Art Media Partner
Do you need help determining which Epson media is right for your needs? At DTG, we pride ourselves on offering the best pre-consultation, products, training, and support in the industry. We believe that a fine art paper is only as good as its ICC profile. That’s why at DTG we offer our own custom ICC profiles for Epson medias offering the widest gamut and most accurate resulting prints for your images. Contact us today to discuss your options.