Paper & Canvas
How Do You Want To Communicate?
Communicate your intentions by selecting the optimal paper. Shout with glossy or whisper with mat paper. Select smooth or structured surface depending on the style of your photograph. You find some hand-picked choices of highest quality below. I’m happy to support you personally to find the perfect material for your art. Just send me an email and I will get right back!
Canson® Infinity Baryta Prestige
Canson® wins the prestigious TIPA award for the best inkjet photographic paper.
The paper characteristics are truly unique: It provides excellent durability, outstanding black optical density (D-max), and superb image sharpness. The paper offers a good level of flatness, excellent surface homogeneity, and it is printed and non-printed surfaces differ only very slightly in glossiness.
It offers an extraordinary wide gamut which improves colour reproduction and increases visual impact. It is an innovative product for the more discerning photographer and printmaker, whether creating black and white or colour archival prints.
This paper resembles traditional baryta paper with the elegance of the lovely photographic paper of years past.
Specifications Baryta Prestige
Weight: 340 gsm
Thickness: 370 um
Surface feel: Very smooth
Surface finish: Gloss (slightly shiny)
CIE Whiteness: 112
ISO 2471 Opacity: 99
Internally buffered: Yes
Acid free paper: Yes
OBA content: Very low
Water resistance: High
Contains barium sulphate
Paper base permanence meets the ISO 9706 requirements*
Canson® Infinity Platine Fibre Rag
Canson® Infinity Platine Fibre Rag is the combination of the premium 100% cotton Platinum paper that Canson has supplied for many years to the original Platinum and Platine photographic market, with the latest microporous coating, making the traditional darkroom paper now available for digital printing.
Setting the benchmark for Digital Darkroom papers, Platine Fibre Rag provides the aesthetic and feel of the original F-Type Baryta Fibre paper, having a true pure white tone without using optical brighteners that are known to affect the longevity of digitally produced images.
Platine Fibre Rag’s extremely high Dmax and exceptional grey tones make it the product of choice for the more discerning black and white as well as colour photographic prints.
Specifications Platine Fibre Rag
Weight: 310 gsm
Thickness: 395 um
Surface feel: Smooth
Surface finish: Satin
CIE Whiteness: 89.12
ISO 2471 Opacity: 99.3
Internally buffered: Yes
Acid free paper: Yes
OBA content: None
Water resistance: High
Paper base meet the requirement of ISO 9706*
Optimised for pigmented inks.
Canson® Infinity Rag Photographique
Canson® Infinity Rag Photographique is a 100% cotton museum grade white Fine Art and photo paper. The exceptional smooth white tone is achieved during manufacturing by introducing natural minerals to the process. It has been developed to address the need for continued longevity requirements in the Digital Fine Art market.
Rag Photographique offers a unique extra smooth surface with a sensual feel. It also provides one of the highest achievable Dmax currently available on the market, making it ideal for fine art photography as well as fine art printmaking.
Specifications Rag Photographique
Weight: 310 gsm
Thickness: 466 um
Surface feel: Very smooth
Surface finish: Matte
CIE Whiteness: 89.80
ISO 2471 Opacity: 99.34
Internally buffered: Yes
Acid free paper: Yes
OBA content: None
Water resistance: High
Paper base meet the requirement of ISO 9706*
Optimised for pigmented inks.
Canson® Infinity Edition Etching Rag
Canson® Infinity Edition Etching Rag is a 100% cotton Fine Art paper with a smooth texture, reminiscent of the original genuine etching and printmaking papers. The paper has the purest white tone available on the market, without any Optical Brightening Agents, also called OBAs. Optical Brightening Agents are artificial brighteners that deteriorate in time. Canson® Edition Etching Rag offers a high paper shade stability and a resistance to aging by using natural minerals.
This museum-grade paper provides deep blacks, excellent image sharpness, optimum colour graduation and its unique slight grain makes it ideal for printing detailed work, colour photographs and exceptional black and white portraits.
Specification Edition Etching Rag
Weight: 310 gsm
Thickness: 479 um
Surface feel: Soft texture
Surface finish: Matte
CIE Whiteness: 89.1
ISO 2471 Opacity: 99.5
Internally buffered: Yes
Acid free paper: Yes
OBA content: None
Water resistance: High
Paper base meet the requirement of ISO 9706*
Canson® Infinity Museum Pro Canvas
The top grade professional canvas. Manufactured with a high quality 100% pure cotton canvas base, coated with a new advanced technology of microporous coating. It is “OBA free” (no optical brightening agents), water resistant and specially designed for professionals in search of a Canvas that can produce true Fine Art.
Specifications Museum Pro Canvas
Weight: 385 gsm
Thickness: 500 um
Surface feel: Canvas
Surface finish: Matte
CIE Whiteness: 76.15
ISO 2471 Opacity: 97.6
OBA content: None
Water resistance: High
*ISO 9706 – Permanent paper
Certification of paper
Archival papers and permanent papers are tested in accordance with the Swedish National Archives Technical Regulation RA-FS 2006:4 which refers to ISO 11108 (archival paper) and ISO 9706 (permanent paper). Paper may be certified in accordance with the Swedish National Archives Regulations. SP is the only Swedish accredited certification body, see link to the right "Certification of archival materials". Read more here.
ISO 9706 – Permanent paper
Shall have a pH-value between 7,5 and 10,0
Shall have an alkali reserve at least corresponding to 0,4 mol acid per kg paper (at least 2% calcium carbonate)
Shall have tearing resistance of at least 350 mN
Shall have a Kappa number less than 5, which means that the paper may contain only a small amount of easily oxidized material (e.g. lignin)