Cottontail Press offers a wide range of paper, fine art rags, canvas and speciality media for all of your fine art printing requirements.  We offer free, no obligation assistance with choosing the perfect paper for your art. If you do not see your favourite paper listed on our website, contact us and we’d be happy to help!

Not sure which paper is right for your prints?  We offer a sample pack of all of our most popular papers and canvas for only $10 including shipping, and it comes with a $10 discount coupon for your next order of prints.

Awagami Murakumo Kozo Select Natural

Kozo’s (mulberry) soft sinewy fibres imbue ‘Murakumo Kozo Select Natural’ with an appealing beauty and lasting organic charm. The paper’s lovely texture makes it highly desirable for printing Asian artworks and lends a tactile beauty to photographs, giclee prints and is often used in the reproduction of antique documents.

This paper’s unparalleled strength vs thinness ratio makes it ideal for hanging scrolls, artist books and folding screens.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made From90% Premium Kozo / 10% Wood Pulp
Weight42 gsm
Surface TextureMatte, Textured
ToneNatural
Optical Brighteners?

Awagami Unryu Thin

Unryu Thin reflects a classic Japanese aesthetic with its subtle cloud-like inclusions of long kozo (mulberry) fibres. Particularly interesting when backlit or freely hanging from a wall or ceiling, this paper’s unique texture is certain to increase the expressiveness of any work printed on it.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made FromKozo (Mulberry)
Weight55 gsm
Surface TextureMatte, Textured
ToneNatural
Optical Brighteners?

Breathing Color Lyve Canvas

Lyve Canvas is a 19 mil bright white, consistent poly-cotton blend matte canvas using an acid-free neutral pH coating. Unlike most fine art canvas on the market, Lyve utilises Breathing Color’s “Chromata White” technology to deliver a bright white surface free of optical brightening agents, together with an exceptional colour gamut and deep blacks.

We’ve tried virtually every canvas on the market, and Breathing Color Lyve provides the highest quality and most stable canvas platform for fine art and photographic works without the metamerism or color shift issues inherent in other canvases.

ConstructionCanvas
Made FromCotton Polyester Blend
Weight450 gsm
Surface TextureCanvas
ToneBright White
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

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 your 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.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made From100% Cotton
Weight310 gsm
Surface TextureSemi Gloss
ToneWhite
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Chromajet Metallic Pearl

Chromajet Metallic Pearl Photo Paper is a premium inkjet paper with a unique pearlescent surface finish. The finish is similar to traditional silver-halide metallic photographic papers and offers exceptional image clarity and brilliant colour reproduction with a cool, high-gloss metallic finish with a blue iridescence. The best match for Kodak’s classic Endura Metallic.

ConstructionResin Coated
Made From100% Virgin Fibre
Weight255 gsm
Surface TextureGloss
TonePearlescent
Optical Brighteners?

Chromajet Spectrum Satin

Chromajet Spectrum Satin 255gsm Inkjet Paper is a satin-finished proofing paper with a microporous coating on a resin-coated base. This makes it a very stable inkjet paper as it lays flat after printing and the image quality is sharp and shows great detail. This media also has a very wide colour gamut and the image will not smudge with handling. It can also be used as poster and photo paper.

ConstructionResin Coated
Made From100% Virgin Fibre
Weight255 gsm
Surface TextureSatin
ToneBright White
Optical Brighteners?

FabriSign Jacquard Fabric

FabriSign treated fabrics greatly improve colour gamut and the washability of prints made with pigment inks. FabriSign coated fabrics are perfect for fine art prints, giclée prints, banners, advertising prints, prototypes and reproduction fabrics for use in performing arts. The clear coating is undetectable and the full texture of the fabric is present.  These fabrics are supplied on a removable paper backing.

Available in Belgian linen, cotton sheeting, cotton sateen, silk habotai and polyester fabric.

ConstructionTextile
Made FromCotton, Silk, Polyester
WeightVaries
Surface TextureFabric
ToneWhite
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Hahnemühle Bamboo

Bamboo – a natural white paper with a smooth surface texture – is made from 90% bamboo fibres and 10% cotton and guarantees archival standards. With its premium matt inkjet coating Bamboo meets the highest industry standards regarding density, colour gamut, colour graduation and image sharpness while preserving the special touch and feel of genuine art paper.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made From90% Bamboo, 10% Cotton
Weight290 gsm
Surface TextureMatte, Smooth
ToneWarm
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Hahnemühle Baryta FB

Baryta FB – a bright white, 100% α-cellulose (fibre based) paper – guarantees archival standards. With its high grammage, ultra-smooth surface texture and premium high-gloss baryta inkjet coating Baryta FB corresponds to a traditional baryta paper. It meets the highest industry standards regarding density, colour gamut, colour graduation and image sharpness.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made FromAlpha Cellulose
Weight350 gsm
Surface TextureGloss
ToneBright White
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Hahnemühle German Etching

German Etching – a white, 100% α-cellulose paper – guarantees archival standards. The mould-made etching paper features a distinct textured surface. With its premium matt inkjet coating German Etching meets the highest industry standards regarding density, colour gamut, colour graduation and image sharpness while preserving the special touch and feel of genuine art paper.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made FromAlpha Cellulose
Weight310 gsm
Surface TextureMatte, Textured
ToneWhite
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Hahnemühle Photo Rag

Hahnemühle Photo Rag – a white, 100% cotton paper with a smooth surface texture – guarantees archival standards. With its premium matt inkjet coating Photo Rag® meets the highest industry standards regarding density, colour gamut, colour graduation and image sharpness while preserving the special touch and feel of genuine art paper.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made From100% Cotton
Weight308 gsm
Surface TextureMatte, Smooth
ToneWhite
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Hahnemühle Torchon

Torchon – a bright white, 100% alpha-cellulose paper – guarantees archival standards. This watercolour paper features a distinct textured surface. With its premium matt inkjet coating Torchon meets the highest industry standards regarding density, colour gamut, colour graduation and image sharpness while preserving the special touch and feel of genuine art paper.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made From100% Cotton
Weight285 gsm
Surface TextureMatte, Textured
ToneBright White
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Gloss

A throwback to a bygone era, this traditional fibre-base photo paper is ideal for high quality black and white printing and offers an exceptional wide gamut for color, detail and tonality. In developing GALERIE Prestige Gold Fibre Gloss, ILFORD has taken into account all the elements that make the perfect traditional photo paper, reminiscent of papers produced for the darkroom.

With no optical brighteners, and a seamless transition between contrast, shadow detail and highlight areas, this new exciting addition to the GALERIE Prestige range is sure to be a winner.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made From100% Cotton
Weight310 gsm
Surface TextureSemi Gloss
ToneWhite
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Ilford Galerie Gold Mono Silk

GALERIE Prestige Gold Mono Silk is a true black and white media for inkjet printers allowing photographers specialising in monochrome photography to achieve stunning images reminiscent of darkroom prints.

Fans of traditional black & white products no longer need a darkroom to bring to life their black and white prints. The contrast and transition between shadow and highlight areas is seamless thanks to the unique ILFORD nanoporous coating layer technology and coupled with exceptional Dmax and Dmin values, Gold Mono Silk is capable of delivering deep, rich blacks and bright whites.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made FromWood Pulp
Weight270 gsm
Surface TextureSemi Gloss
ToneBright White
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Ilford Galerie Smooth Gloss

GALERIE Prestige Smooth Gloss paper features the very latest HDR (High Dynamic Range) optically clear coating and coupled with recent advancements in inkjet receiving layer design, makes this the reference media for producing images with superb clarity, high sharpness and excellent colour gamut.

We love this paper for its smooth, almost glass-like gloss finish.  It is our glossiest paper and offers an impressively wide colour gamut, with a good weight (310 gsm) and great handling.

ConstructionResin Coated
Made FromWood Pulp
Weight310 gsm
Surface TextureSemi Gloss
ToneBright White
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl

GALERIE Prestige Smooth Pearl paper features the very latest HDR (High Dynamic Range) optically clear coating and coupled with recent advancements in inkjet receiving layer design, makes this the reference media for producing images with superb clarity, high sharpness and excellent colour gamut.

The high-density, resin coated heavyweight base and smooth pearl finish not only eliminate glare and fingerprints but with its natural photographic white tint, produce prints with the true look and feel of a photograph. For outstanding imaging performance, combined with the benefit of “touch dry” from the printer, this pearl surface media is the “choice of professionals”.

ConstructionResin Coated
Made FromWood Pulp
Weight310 gsm
Surface TextureSemi Gloss
ToneBright White
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Kodak Universal Backlit Film

This heavyweight front-print backlit film provides excellent image quality. It is perfect for use with light boxes and other backlit applications, with exceptional colour saturation combined with excellent print handling and finishing characteristics.

ConstructionBacklit Film
Made FromPolyester
Weight275 gsm (8 mil)
Surface TextureBacklit Film
ToneTranslucent
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet

Museo Portfolio Rag

Museo Portfolio Rag combines an extra smooth cotton base with our advanced coating to bring you a paper that feels luxurious and provides world-class image quality. Use Museo Portfolio Rag for your museum exhibition and portfolio prints and when you need exceptional tonal range on a surface that will not detract from your photographic images.

ConstructionFibre Based
Made From100% Cotton
Weight300 gsm
Surface TextureMatte, Smooth
ToneWhite
Optical Brighteners?
Data Sheet