Printing Services

Standard Prints: Standard prints are an inexpensive way of getting a viewable print for clients, events, or your personal photo albums. Standard prints are made on a semi-gloss or matt paper and render a beautiful reproduction. They are typically not color corrected or set to specific contrast levels. Corrections such as these can be done by the client or requested separately.

Archival Giclee:
The French word "giclee is a feminine noun that means a spray or a spurt of liquid. Giclee prints are typically made with a professional 6 or 8 color archival inkjet printer. One of many reasons in which giclee printing has become popular is that it is one of the few methods of printing which can rival the rich tone and archival qualities of the silver-halide or gelatin printing process, or "silver printing". Unlike the past when digital processes were heavily questioned by skeptics, now day they are one of the main printing mediums in the fine art industry. Examples of giclee printing can be found in places such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and galleries world wide.


Giclee Media: We offer a number of different media for giclee printing. The media offered is as follows;


Photo Rag Matt: The most matt surface available, this paper has high color saturation and one of the deepest black points of any media.


Photo Rag Satin: More of an interpretive media, this satin surface features muted colors and a slightly metallic finish.


Photo Rag Baryta: Modeled after "traditional black and white fiber based papers" this is one of the most photographic looking papers in existence for the giclee printing process.


FB Baryta gloss: Slightly different than the "Photo Rag" this version of Baryta Gloss is less textured than it's fiber based cousin and falls somewhere in between a traditional glossy paper and an RC print.


Metallic Silver: Metallic silver paper is a remarkable media that renders a result reminiscent of a an almost completely unavailable printing technique. This style was referred to as Cibachrome. Ciba chrome printing was a remarkable style which was responsible the single most purity of color, image clarity, most importantly, being archival.


William Turner: This giclee paper is rich and textured. It's purposes range from fine art sketch reproductions to oil painting reproductions. it features a high white point as well as rich deep blacks.


-additional media can be obtained by request


Canvas: Canvas prints are as they sound, prints on real art canvas. The canvas we use is by Fredrix, the very manufacturer that provides 90% of the canvas to fine artists. Aside from the beauty of a true canvas print, there are two options that come with a canvas print, UV protective coating and oil styling gelatin. UV protective spray comes in two surfaces, gloss and semi-gloss. all canvas prints are coated once for archival protection. Aside from the archival benefits, a UV coating also renders the surface scratch and water resistant. Styling gel is an archival coating that when brushed on, gives the print the look of an oil painting. Clients have a choice of one, two, or three coats, the third being extremely textured and truly reminiscent of an oil painting.


Aside from the printing option is the option to convert your photograph into an oil painting. Our digital artists are able to manipulate your digital original into an image that both matches the color palette and look of an oil original.


Commercial Printing: Commercial printing encompasses any and all printing services that are tailored specifically towards a commercial or advertising application. Commercial applications require media such as backlit film, banner vinyl, adhesive vinyl, transparent film, and many more. From store fronts to movie theaters we can cater to all of your advertising needs.


Printer: Canon imagePROGRAF 8100. This 12-color pigment based printer and is generation 2 of the only printers capable of output in true 16bit. While printers up to this point have output only in 8bit, a true 16 bit output allows for the smoothest possible gradations in tone and the finest giclee prints available to date. This virtually eliminates problems such as postarization.


 









Digital Services

Scanning: Scanning is a process by which a film negative or positive is read by an optical lens, captured, and converted to a digital file. All scans are done with Imacon Virtual Drum Scanners.

Reproduction scans are optimized to be reproduced to your specified size. They can be printed digitally on inkjet, C-prints, or any other digital process. Reproduction scans are meant for printing applications.

Low resolution scans are scans made in high definition for video, websites, or presentations.

Retouching: Usually for commercially used images, retouching is the process of eliminating blemishes, lines, and unsightly aspects of an image. Color correction for output is judged through fully calibrated monitors and white and black points are mathematically calculated with the 255 range of digital shading.

Restoration:
The process by which an image is rebuilt via copying areas of similar texture and or introducing new textures to match the original. Restoration is a process that can be applied to any age print or negative. The process starts with a high resolution scan which is then restored in Photoshop. The file can be outputted on digital media but for authenticity the file can be turned back into a negative and be printed traditionally. With the exception of positive film or "chrome" most negatives should be printed traditionally as they are desired and then the print, scanned. This preserves the images finer qualities.
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