Learn About Fine Art Paper & Fine Arts Paper

If you are a gicee printing photographer, print studio, or photo lab - you have found the right place. Breathing Color manufactures several types of fine art paper and inkjet canvas, all of which are proprietary and exclusive to our brand. And, we sell them direct to you - the end user. This unique business model allows our customers to take advantage of the highest quality at competitive prices.

Elegance Velvet

This 310g, Bright White, water-resistant velvet fine art paper is made from 100% cotton fiber and is acid and lignin free. Elegance Velvet is a proprietary mouldmade fine art paper that is strong and dimensionally stable. It has a high white point, remarkable ink load capacity, and best-in-class image quality that far excedes the limitations of virtually every paper of its kind.  
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Optica One

Optica One is a 300gsm bright white, matte fine art paper with a luxuriously smooth surface ideal for high resolution photographic imagery. It is able to produce extremely crisp and accurate detail as a result of its leadership (when measured against other fine art papers on the market today) in tonal range value, line quality, line contrast, and raggedness.  Optica One is tailor-made for the demanding and discerning photographer who values superior performance in print quality.  
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Vibrance Rag

325GSM FINE ART PAPER WITH HIGH GLOSS BARYTA FINISH, 100% COTTON

Vibrance Rag is a stunning combination of 100% cotton paper, a traditional baryta board, and a premium inkjet-receptive coating that is characteristic of all Breathing Color products. This 325gsm, 100% cotton luxurious photography paper has a fine surface texture and a baryta gloss finish. It is both acid and lignin free. Vibrance Rag is ideal for the most demanding photographers, and lends itself particularly well to black and white images.

Launched at Photokina in September 2010, Vibrance Rag has elicited overwhelmingly positive feedback from both our advisory board and other influential accredited photographers and printmakers who took part in the design, development, and approval of this product. There's something special about Vibrance Rag, and we encourage you to order a TRIAL ROLL and experience it first-hand.  Click here for more info, sizes, prices...

600MT

300GSM COLD PRESS FINE ART PAPER, BRIGHT WHITE, COTTON RAG-BASED

This 300g, bright white, cotton rag-based water-resistant cold pressed textured matte paper is acid free and lignin free. It is a 50% cotton, 50% alpha cellulose blend and was specifically developed to be a lower cost alternative to 100% cotton rag fine art papers. It delivers remarkable print quality characteristic of all Breathing Color products. 600MT has a luxurious cold-pressed textured surface designed to maximize resistance to scuffing and flaking.  
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28MT

220GSM COLD PRESS FINE ART PAPER, BRIGHT WHITE, COTTON RAG-BASED

This 220g, bright white, cotton rag-based water-resistant cold pressed textured matte paper is acid free and lignin free. It is a 50% cotton, 50% alpha cellulose blend and was specifically developed to be a lower cost alternative to 100% cotton rag fine art papers. It delivers remarkable print quality characteristic of all Breathing Color products. 28MT has a luxurious cold-pressed textured surface designed to maximize resistance to scuffing and flaking. 28MT is the exact same paper as the 600MT, only in a lighter weight.  Click here for more info, sizes, prices... 

Mint

300GSM SMOOTH FINE ART PAPER FOR SOLVENT PRINTING, 100% COTTON, OBA FREE

Mint™ is the world’s first 100% cotton hot press smooth fine art paper with archival certification. Specifically designed for the high-end fineart and photography markets, this 300gsm fine art paper utilizes our "Chromata White" optical brightener additive-free and Fluorescent Whitening agent-free breakthrough technology. "Chromata White" gives the end-user the most stable platform on which to print photographs and fine art works without the metamerism issues or color shift issues inherent on other canvases. Optical Brighteners compromise the attainment of true color, they complicate profiling accuracy, and they inevitably deteriorate and yellow over time.  Click here for more info, sizes, prices... 

Jade

300GSM VELVET FINE ART PAPER FOR SOLVENT PRINTING, 100% COTTON, OBA FREE

Jade™ is the world’s first 100% cotton velvet fine art paper with archival certification. Specifically designed for the high-end fineart and photography markets, this 300gsm fine art paper utilizes our "Chromata White" optical brightener additive-free and Fluorescent Whitening agent-free breakthrough technology. "Chromata White" gives the end-user the most stable platform on which to print photographs and fine art works without the metamerism issues or color shift issues inherent on other canvases. Optical Brighteners compromise the attainment of true color, they complicate profiling accuracy, and they inevitably deteriorate and yellow over time.  Click here for more info, sizes, prices... 

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Breathing Color's Elegance Velvet Fine Art Paper, a 310gsm 100% cotton rag and lightly textured matte, has been the recipient of numerous quality awards for its exceptional dmax, color gamut, and print permanence. This paper comes with an Archival Quality Certificate. Optica One Smooth Fine Art Paper, a 300gsm 100% Cotton Rag with a luxuriously smooth surface, is our latest innovation that delivers off-the-chart dmax and color gamut numerical readings. This paper also comes with anArchival Quality Certificate. If you are new to Breathing Color, dont leave without getting a trial roll of these two products.

Before a beautiful fine art inkjet paper can be made, you must first create a beautiful uncoated fine art paper base. The only way to end with the best is to start with the best. Therefore, a lot of development resources are devoted towards creating proprietary base fine art papers. Our base fine art papers are made using the finest raw materials in the world, and each paper is methodically tested for performance. Every single sheet is hand inspected before an inkjet receptive coating (IRC) is applied to the surface. 

After a winning base fine art paper or watercolor paper is made, we then apply a proprietary acid-free inkjet receptive coating. Currently, we are the only inkjet paper and canvas designer in the industry with acid-free inkjet receptive coatings. Our coating technology always exceeds expectations of printmakers, and we are sure to never release a product unless it is going to make a lasting impression. By doing so, our coating technology has been most instrumental in establishing Breathing Color's reputation as a leader in our field.

Breathing Color is now publishing measured testing data analysis of our products in order to illustrate our ongoing commitment to excellence in quality and the attainment of clear leadership in product innovation. We call our products "the most advanced in the world" - and its our job to to show you precisely why. Please read our Print Quality Evaluation of The Top 100% Cotton Rag Inkjet Fine Art Papers.

When you see an image printed on a Breathing Color inkjet fine art paper or canvas, we guarantee that you will experience Love at First Sight™.