Fine-art printing
A print is where a photograph stops being a file. It becomes something you hang, something you can hold, something that has to survive. That is the part worth getting right.
The studio came out of the darkroom, and that training never left: an eye for half-tones, an obsession with detail in the highlights, respect for a black that is genuinely full. All of it goes into digital fine-art printing now, in colour and in black and white. The technology changed. The approach did not.
How the work is done
Every print starts from a conversation. We look at the file together, take care of the retouching, the colour correction and the optimisation for print, then proof, compare and correct — choosing the paper that suits that particular image — until the print is what the photograph deserves. Sessions at the monitor are charged by the hour.
Giclée printing works equally well from native digital files and from high-resolution scans of negatives and transparencies.
If you cannot be in the studio, a single proof print can be made and sent to you before the full set goes ahead. On a set of any size it is worth the delay.
Every print can be issued with a certificate of authenticity, on request.
The machines
Large-format Epson printers with UltraChrome Pro ten-colour pigment inks. The high-density Photo Black and Matte Black are where the deep, even blacks come from.
Epson SC-P5000, SC-P9300 and SC-P20000 — up to 160 cm on the short side, at any length.
The papers
Acid-free fine-art papers, pure cotton or alpha-cellulose, matte or baryta. On request, any support the project calls for.
Fine art
Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 · Photo Rag Bright White · Photo Rag Satin · Photo Rag Ultra Smooth · Photo Rag Pearl · FineArt Baryta · Photo Silk Baryta
Mediajet Natural Smooth 310 · White Smooth 300 · Natural Silk Baryta 310 · Photo Art White Baryta 300 · Florence Matt Canvas 395
Canson Baryta Prestige II · Platine Fibre Rag
Awagami — Japanese washi
Portfolio
Mediajet Litho White · Natural Matt 230 · Museum Matt 200 · Pearl Bright White 300
If the paper you work with is not on the list, ask: most of them can be ordered.
Sending files
TIFF or JPEG at maximum quality, Adobe RGB, 8 or 16 bit.
For retouching work: 16 bit, TIFF or RAW.
Price list
On request — write, and we will send the current one.