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That is great to read! I'm so pleased it was useful 😀

it's in the description of the video ☺️ papercutz.co.uk/a4-photo-paper-inkjet-glossy-115gsm-waterproof

Thank you for your kind words 😊 I'm so pleased you found it informative!

The one on my wrist (from my RUclips shorts) started to lift after 2 days, but I wash my hands a lot. Chibi Chi Juniors have been on for over a week! They're looking a little sorry for themselves, but still holding up! I was very impressed with the quality.

If you check out my more recent videos, I show you how to manually offset designs to get the laser and inkjet portions to line up better. I really hope it helps 😊

In an ideal world all of my viewers would be able to buy a top of the range printer, but I appeal to micro businesses that do not have the capital outlay for high end printers. I try to show them tips and tricks to make their printer work for them 🙂

Thank you for answering my comments. Good luck with your printing, I hope it works out for you. Cheers.

I'm glad you found it helpful! Wishing you the best of luck 🤞

True! But lots of my viewers struggle with printer settings. It's much easier for them to have one extra step in the design process, but then one less step when it comes to the actual printer.

@@danielle-chibichidesigns4433 I disagree. Much easier to select the option 'landscape' in the printer settings, and being able to work on a design in front of you the right way up without having to rotate everything!

Perhaps for you, but I can only go with the experience of my viewers, and I know that for them having to remember the extra step each time it's printed (portrait to landscape) will be a hindrance. You only have to rotate it once, then you can print as is limitless times. It's probably a personal preference thing.

I hope you find it useful! Let me know if you have any questions ☺️

I'm so glad you're finding them useful! I love canva too. The apps are amazing!

Thanks for all your tips on the correct cardstock to use and all your information on printers, etc. I need to buy a printer that prints out heavier cardstock without breaking the bank. 😊

You're very welcome! I wish you lots of luck in your printer quest!

I'm so glad my advice is helping! It's so hard to predict ink yield as there are so many different variables involved such as image saturation, colour use etc I'd say probably around the 2-300 mark though. With heavy use of that kind you'll probably find any desktop printer will last less than a year. But even with greetings card small margins, it will have paid for itself several times over. I'd suggest cleaning the rollers daily with a dry lint free cloth and then a more intensive clean when you notice the rollers aren't picking up properly. You can buy cleaning sheets to help with this too ☺️ I hope this helps!

Thanks for the feedback Rob, I'll take that on board for the next edit. I'm glad it helped ☺️

@@danielle-chibichidesigns4433 lavalier or wireless mic would help with sound quality and recording it on same device. i record camera segments using lavalier and record in camera. that could be my old phone or sony camera. the voice over you could do sameway. in editing you can drop what you dont need. in adobe audition you can edit the voice. as i am restarting my journey on youtube i could do a video about that later in july, i struggled with sound in the past too, just learned how to make it better and i dont think i am there yet.

I've looked at wireless mics before as felt they would definitely help. It's a bit of a minefield for choosing the correct one. I use Davinci resolve for edits and it does allow you to clean up the audio, but it can only do so much based on the original. A video on audio would be very useful!

It's always nice to know I wasn't alone in the colour struggles! I'm sorry that it's difficult to source good paper, but I'm glad you've found some that works 😊

I actually use isopropyl alcohol on a lint free cloth. Try to print with no card in, and as the rollers are trying to grab the media, press the lint free cloth to each one. It will clean it as it's turning.

Oh dear, that sounds like a definite roller fault! I hope you manage to get it sorted.

You're very welcome 😊

Eeeek! Thank you for bringing it to my attention! Thank goodness these will never make it onto the sell list 😅 I'm really glad you enjoyed the video 💜

Thank you so much 💜

Hi Gaby, thank you so much for your message. Are you using official inks or compatibles? This can sometimes happen with poorer quality cardstock and ink. I really hope that the upgrade to paper cutz cardstock works for you. Keep me posted!

@@danielle-chibichidesigns4433 Thank you for your reply :) I am at the moment, using the official ink. I have have received the paper cutz, and I haven't yet printed onto the gloss, only the matte card. but am finding that the black is now streaky. Will have to keep trying. :)

Oh no, that is very strange! What software are you printing from, and what are your printer settings?

@@danielle-chibichidesigns4433 I am printing from illustrator, and I am using the preset options, as I fiddled around a little with other colour management options when printing from illustrator, and the preset ones came out with the better results.

I'm afraid I don't have much experience with printing in illustrator. It sounds like the printer is laying down inconsistent levels of black. I'd suggest you do a printer head check and then clean if needed. If still no joy drop an email to paper cutz and I'm sure they can help, they're very friendly!

I can only speak from my experience, but I'd be able to do that easily with affinity designer and my Canon IP8750 printer.

Hi Debbie, what printer are you using? I've never used gimp for anything other than editing. What happens when you export as jpg and print that way?

I'm so glad you found it useful! Happy printing 🙂

Hi Debbie I'm sorry to hear that. Did you use a creasing board? I usually pre-crease my designs whenever possible, but if this is a full colour edge to edge design I appreciate this may not be possible. You could try creasing from the inside to see if it makes it less noticeable.

How exciting for you! If you're not foiling, then look at a satin, I have a video where I show you silk and satin finishes from earlier in May. They are between a matte and gloss and look great! Best of luck with your greeting card business!

It's possible to create full print card designs on A4/ US letter size with any printer providing you're creating the finished card around 5x7" when folded. Have a look at some of my earlier greeting cards videos where I show you how to do this. It's something I do all the time with my specialist seed cards. As for the difficulties with sourcing cardstock, have you considered digital downloads? I know it's a saturated market, but it's one you'd be able to hopefully join in with until you've sorted your supplier. Wishing you the best of luck!

It really is a struggle! A lot of the US brands that were recommended in groups I couldn't find in the UK to test. I unfortunately don't know of any in Canada. I'd definitely drop an email to support@papercutz.co.uk and ask if they can send internationally, they're really helpful. Good luck!,

Thank you for your lovely words! I'll definitely add an alignment video to the list!

Thank you so much for your comment! Mine came with it, but you may be able to download it from the Canon site. Once you get the colours sorted it's a good printer!

I looked on the Canon website but couldn’t see any ICC profiles 😞 will have to contact them! 😘

Make sure you're using the "iP8700 series CUPS Printer Driver" that you download from their site and not the AirPrint driver that comes with macOS. If you're using the AirPrint driver remove that and install the drivers from Canon then reset the printer. Once that's installed and you've re-setup the printer to use that driver, you'll see the profiles in the print dialog under Printer Options -> Color Matching -> ColorSync. For the Automatic profile option to work, make sure to set the Media Type under Printer options -> Quality & Media -> Media Type. Also, printing using Affinity on Mac is nowhere as robust as on Windows sadly. It's one of the places where the Adobe Creative Suite wins supreme on Mac unfortunately. Affinity has left the printer driver and macOS to do the colour management rather than doing it themselves. You won't have the Colour Management dialog that's shown in this video at all and the profiles will be different. This guide is bit old but it's what I used to figure it out: www.redrivercatalog.com/profiles/how-to-use-icc-color-printer-profiles-iphoto-mac.html

Thank you so much for being kind and helpful enough to help another mac user out with your great knowledge! I hope that @scattering.sparkles finds it helpful.

Thank you so much for the Mac help and advice. I can now get the colours printing correctly using plain paper settings with ColorSync set to auto but as soon as you change the media type to Matt photo paper the colours all shift to really dark. It’s infuriating. I cannot believe it should be this difficult. Epson is print and go 😬. I, like Danielle, selected this printer to cope with. 300gsm card. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ve now started a case with Epson, although their latest advice is to check the printer nozzles, I don’t think this will fix it 🤣.

Hi there, thank you for your comment. I actually don't finish the matte card with anything. The only issue to the print would be if it was soaked.

As mentioned in my video, my opinion has changed. It's mainly based on how much more reliable the canon is when printing on thick card. The reason I hated my canon originally was the issues with the colours, but as you can see I've resolved this now.

Thanks for your valuable input Danielle

@@Tooclosetothetruth You're welcome!

I do actually have a mix of wholesale platforms and print on demand like thortful ☺️ thank you for your kind words!

I'm so glad you like it. I've been thinking a lot on my original feelings on my Canon IP8750, and I think they've definitely changed. My epson had better colours (in my opinion) but it was extremely tempremental, and wouldn't work with the max gsm it was supposed to.

Hi, I use affinity designer to print from. If it's an illustration card then I use procreate. I hope that helps.

Check out my newer videos where I show you how to achieve double sided printing for both 5x7" inch blanks, and A4. I also discuss the pros and cons of each.

Have a look at my older videos as I share the exact canon printer settings I use.

Kat thank you for your lovely words. I think if you have a niche then definitely go for it! When I was successful and this paid the bills I wasn't in a saturated market, so it's definitely possible! The decline in my sales has a lot to do with everyone jumping on over lock down etc. If you need anything at all, please reach out. I'm always happy to help!

Wow! Thank you for the encouragement, Danielle. I just might reach out again in the future - I really appreciate that offer.

A refreshing honest creator! We started crafting and selling april23 our yearly figures after all expenditure were just £85 if I remember rightly 😂 we both have full times jobs and wanted this as a side business that may eventually take myself from one self employed business to another one day. I wasn't upset at the figure's because they included machines and materials etc just glad we came out in the black not red. You're right this is a very competitive market and extremely hard when the likes of Etsy sting you. Have you heard of numonday at all? I keep seeing ads and getting emails about them. Wondering what everyone else thinks of them. Keep going!

The matt is not water resistant compared to the gloss. Also, the gloss cannot take all ink types on the inside. I have a video coming up that goes into details of both of this, and suggests an alternative!

Hi Donna, thank you for your kind words! I've got a video coming up where I test some of their more specialist finishes, that are perfect for wedding invites! I sadly do not recommend my printer at all because of the stress I had with it at the beginning. That said, it does print colours like a dream now. Is much more reliable than my Epson, and can take thicker cards. I use inkredible for my cartridges, so the costs are very low.

@@danielle-chibichidesigns4433 Thank you Danielle, Will definitely look out for that video and look into the ink carts, back to the drawing board on new printer 😊

Not at all. Some of my designs are A5. You could technically go up to a3+ with this printer. Although a card sized to A4 may need a thicker GSM to stand without bowing and I'm not sure this printer would handle the thickness.

Thanks for reply, obviously I'm very new to this 🙈 I am just getting my head around affinity designer, trying to print a4 folded, I can not get it to center properly and wondered if it was due to the size.

Have you got it set to print at the right orientation (portrait / landscape)? Sometimes it can be because affinity is set to one and the printer the other.

@danielle-chibichidesigns4433 yes orientation is right, it could be my printer, it's only a cheap epson to practice with, it's the part when it is folded, it always seems to print off centre, more to the fold line if that makes sense. Thank u for trying to help x

Each printer will have a slightly different centre calibration. Measure how far off the centre is (easy to do if you print a line that is aligned to the centre of the page) then move your design on affinity by that measurement. Does that make sense?

Thank you! It's definitely one that I'll look at 💜

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

It depends on the ink in all honesty BUT paper cutz has a single sided gloss for this very reason!

Yes. I have some videos on my channel over trimming first and making your own blanks vs printing and then cutting. I prefer to make my own blanks to print on as it's quicker, but if I'm creating an edge to edge design, then I'll print on a4 and then trim after.

I'm so glad you found it helpful! 💜

It completely depends on the subject. Lighter shots would work well on the matte, and dark moody on the gloss.

Hi there, thanks for the question. Yes, I prefer this card. It doesn't have branding on it like the official canon card too, which is a bonus when selling.

@@danielle-chibichidesigns4433 Good to know thanks. Yes I don't like it with they add their own branding. Thanks for asking. Good luck with the channel. I watch every video.

Thank you so much! It means so much to me to know people are watching 😁

That's great that you have the funds to be able to do that. Realistically most of us don't. If you read through the dozens of comments on my videos from people experiencing exactly the same issues as me, you'll see that it's a wide spread issue for a lot with this specific printer. As for using the right paper. I've dabbled with marrutt and their specific icc profile for this printer and ink with the same problems. I'm glad you've managed to get yours to work though. I'd love a mac, but sadly it's too far out of my budget.

@@danielle-chibichidesigns4433 Okay, no problem there. I use old Mac's btw. I have one older than 10 years! Costs are around 200 euro. But again, you say, one year? I would have sold it for a decent price. And then a little bit more and bought another one. Don't assume I have lots of money. The contrary! My wife still works on her old MacBook pro of 2014. I have an old 2009 MacPro. I have read many things about all sorts of printers of any brand. Many problems. I talked with many photographers and looked at the prints. They were stunning. If you would live in my area, I would have visited you and helped you to configure the damn thing. And again, I am almost 60 and I have learned one thing: Do not ever use these cheap inks. They ruin your printer. That's why these strange colours. But it's just my thoughts. I hope you have a great weekend!! Btw: Look up on RUclips Mattias Burling, a photographer and he made a nice movie about this printer: ruclips.net/video/qXtuIBteI-A/видео.htmlsi=zhA1rR0myHIFLIFH Grts, H

Thank you so much, that's really informative. I will check out Mattias. Sadly I had the same issue with the original canon inks, and that was with 7 years of printing experience. It's just not the printer for me, I'm an Epson fan.

It is good, but for photos I would recommend a gloss. Paper cutz have an awesome one! Stay tuned for a video showing off a few of their different card finishes.

I'm glad you found it helpful.