Ilford Gold Fibre Pearl 290GSM 36" 91.4cmx15m 1ROLL

Ilford Gold Fibre Pearl 290GSM 36" 91.4cmx15m 1ROLL | Wide-format photo printing on a long roll

Give wide photographic prints room to take shape with paper supplied on a 36-inch-wide roll. Ilford Gold Fibre Pearl 290GSM is photo paper for photographers and print studios planning work at larger sizes, or several prints from a single roll. Its stated width is 91.4 cm, and the roll measures 15 metres long, making those dimensions straightforward to use when you’re laying out a print job. The product name also identifies the paper as Gold Fibre Pearl. If you’re comparing options, the 290 gsm weight is another clear figure to work with. I’d start by matching your intended print dimensions to the available width, then plan how much of the roll each job needs. It’s a specialist format for print planning, rather than a small pack of ready-cut sheets.

Planning around a roll

A roll gives you length to allocate across a print job, rather than a set of separate paper sizes. That can be handy when you’re preparing images with different dimensions: work out the finished size of each print and how the images will be arranged before you begin. The 36-inch width is the key limit to keep in mind when planning across the paper; the 15-metre length is the available run to divide between your prints. For a studio, that makes the product’s measurements useful at the planning stage, even before you decide on the final sequence of images. Keep the name and weight with your project notes, too, so you can identify the paper used for a print.

Technical Specifications

• Product: Ilford Gold Fibre Pearl
• Paper weight: 290 gsm
• Roll width: 36 inches / 91.4 cm
• Roll length: 15 m
• Quantity: 1 roll