Hi all,
I'm new to the LuLa forum, so apologies if this topic has already been covered elsewhere...
Does anyone have any experience comparing Epson Premium Luster to Kodak Professional Lustre (i.e. the inkjet, not digital-c kind)? Frankly, I have other papers I would prefer to use if money were no object (love the Moab papers), but I make most of my living from selling prints and am pretty budget conscious at this stage of my business. Epson Luster has served my needs so far, but I'm considering the possibility of moving my website/printing platform to one of the SmugMug or Photoshelter setups, and it seems that all of the labs they use only offer the Kodak (at least in terms of what I could replicate in-house for smaller sizes on my current printer). Further research revealed that this seems to be the norm amongst the high-production/low cost print labs...very few labs seem to offer prints on Epson Premium Luster these days, and the ones that do cost an arm and a leg.
Is the Kodak color rendition and d-max on par with the Epson? It seems to be all the rage for wedding/portrait photographers due to the skin tones, but as a landscape photographer, I'm afraid of going too warm in my paper choice. Any feedback would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Scott