IPhoto 8 calendar printing

Last year, I ordered my wife a calendar using photos that I uploaded to Flickr. This year, I'd like to use iPhoto and print them myself using my Epson 1400. Does anyone have any advice as to what paper to use? The photos are old, some 50 years or more, so photo quality is not as important as a good paper that she can write appointments on and such. Has anyone tried a heavy card stock?
I have an calendar created and saved to pdf in the larger 13x10.4 size. I just need to choose a type of paper that will allow printing on both sides and not allow the photos to saturate through.
TIA.

Since there are no printers that support borderless 13 x 10.4 you may have to resort to using a image editor that can handle layers to print your photos using an 11 x 14 canvas. See Old Toad's Tutorial #8 and #8a for how that would work for a greeting card. The process would be the same for a calendar. You would have a jpg image file for each page of the calendar and can print them one at a time.
Better yet since the Epson 1400 supports borderless 11 x 14 and the calendar is very close to that size, you could print an 11 x 14 calendar with little loss of resolution. In fact you can modify the Save to iPhoto Automator script to give you 300 dip jpg files for each page of the calendar instead of the default 200 dpi.
As far as paper I would go to a place like Kinkos that prints calendars and see what stock they use and/or recommend.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

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