Ilford Post Card Paper

[Tim Gray]

I want to say about half of the ~50 cards I get each round are on Ilford Postcard paper. I've used it for the last 8 rounds. I usually print 60 cards per round, 3 times a year, so about two boxes a year. It's great stuff, especially when you have a 4x6 speed easel.

[Mick Fagan]

I have gone through about 45 boxes of Ilford Postcard paper in the last five or so years, unfortunately, when my current stock runs out, that is it for me.

Love the paper, love the stock it's coated on, but it isn't available in Australia. Any stock still around is very old and was here before Harmon became an entity. The Australian importer of Ilford film and darkroom paper, will not import it and even told me to source it from overseas. Obviously not a viable product as far as they are concerned, such is life.

I imported from Germany 1,000 sheets (10 boxes) last time I bought some. It was a bit of a hassle to get it here but I had a specific job for it, which was 32 different prints with 25 of each print.

I find that when I take pictures at a wedding (I'm not the wedding photographer) I somehow seem to end up with a fairly good neg of the bride, or family of the bride, or something like that.

This often gets turned into a postcard print, which the bridal family then posts to rellies all over the place. This has been my major use of Ilford postcard stock in the last 20 years.

I'll never again take a great picture of a groom with a Greek mother, she wanted 200 prints of him!

Mick.

[hoffy]

I know that there is at least one retailer who will get it in if you ask in Australia(I won't say their name, as they are a bit sheepish about it, as they don't want to upset the distributor).

I like it quite a lot. I just wish it was easier to get more sizes of the same grade paper. When ever I do an O/S order, I always try to get at least one box of it included.

[Kevin Caulfield]

I know that there is at least one retailer who will get it in if you ask in Australia(I won't say their name, as they are a bit sheepish about it, as they don't want to upset the distributor).

I like it quite a lot. I just wish it was easier to get more sizes of the same grade paper. When ever I do an O/S order, I always try to get at least one box of it included.

Why not upset the distributor, if the distributor doesn't give a rat's?