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Pen folks, I'm a photographer and want to mail my own images to friends, clients, and prospects. I know the print world of today: much color printing work is fused toner and poor color. small batches are high cost and I lose the spontaneity of printing my own images on them right in my office for the exact communication I need to create. When I started in the business we made separations and thought in CMYK and grey component replacement. Black magic, really. OK, current day. I use dye inks. Strathmore makes a folding digital printing card and matching envelope that ends up 5x7 on a nice paper - pretty good for the color image but terrible for fountain pen inks. I have experimented with a fair number of inks and nibs. Some are better than others but there is usually way too much feathering. I have written several paper manufacturers for samples to consider buying the paper loose and either going to a converter for custom envelopes... well, you see the issue. We fountain pen users are a tiny army. The best ink appears to be Noodler's Bay State Blue for its fast drying. (Amazingly this ink allows me to safely write on the slimy back of a Canon 4x6 glossy stock if I give it just a bit of time before throwing it into a mailbox.) I considered the idea of printing on an 8.5x11 photo paper and folding it but usually the emulsion side cracks in a goofy way, and it's clearly a print... needs to be stationery. (I hope that makes sense to others beside just me...) For another example, I don't want to place a print in a cardboard "frame" that can go in an envelope, and anyway, that super-soft paper would probably not be appropriate for fountain pen inks. I admit that there are many inks I have not tried. I found some smooth 100-lb cover card stock that's very good with my pens. But the smooth papers I find like this cover stock do NOT take color ink with enough "punch" for professional-level photography presentation. OK, enough telling why I have NOT been successful. Please pass on any suggestions of card stock that works for both printer and pen. Doesn't have to fold. It's nicest if there's a matching envelope. In fact that's kind of the point of my request for help. A true stationery/personal letter experience. Thanks in advance, everyone. Jonathan www.jonathanrawle.com