[HN Gopher] Ask HN: High quality digital art printing?
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Ask HN: High quality digital art printing?
I need to print digital art (.jpeg) but most of the websites seem
to be ads or spam blog posts. Does HN know some good addresses?
Author : frozencell
Score : 8 points
Date : 2022-07-23 17:57 UTC (5 hours ago)
| pjbeam wrote:
| I had a digital art portrait done of my wife and had it printed
| at a local fine art framing kind of place. It turned out
| beautifully! No clue where you live but you might look into such
| a place near you--the staff at mine were super knowledgeable to
| the point they asked the artist to change the color
| encoding/scheme/whatever (sorry no clue about this stuff) to make
| the colors pop more on the canvas.
|
| It wasn't cheap but the results were worth it!
| brudgers wrote:
| Printing is an art.
|
| Consistent quality printing comes from working with a
| printer...from a relationship.
|
| Otherwise you get what you sent because ordinarily printing is a
| commodity service, and a business survives on commercial work not
| the occasional amateur.
|
| Which is to say that getting what you want requires knowing what
| you are doing, paying to learn by making lots of wrong prints, or
| paying someone enough to care (and enough to educate you).
|
| The first option might be off the table based on your asking the
| question.
|
| The second and third options are most likely available with your
| local print shops.
|
| Knowing the first name of your of your printer is perhaps a
| minimum for getting consistent art prints. Good luck.
| realslimjd wrote:
| If you're in the US Reed Art & Imaging [0] is one of the best
| photo printing companies in the United States. They're (I think)
| the only commercial studio licensed to use the true Diasec
| process in the US. Diasec is what most museums prefer for their
| photo prints, just as a reference of quality.
|
| I've also used White Wall [1] in Germany with similar results.
| They use basically the same process, but an unlicensed version.
| Bumblejax [2] in Seattle is also great.
|
| The other thing you can look for is local camera stores that
| still develop film. Chances are they'll have a high quality
| printer and paper. Giclee printing (basically very high quality
| inkjet) is what's most popular right now and supposedly is the
| most durable, but I personally prefer chromogenic (C-type) prints
| which is where they use lasers to expose photo-sensitive paper.
| There aren't many places doing C-type prints anymore, so that's
| generally a mark of quality.
|
| [0] - https://reedphoto.com
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| [1] - https://www.whitewall.com
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| [2] - https://www.bumblejax.com
| robcohen wrote:
| This is something I've wanted to find as well, I searched awhile
| back for large scale printer services and I came up basically
| empty handed. If you search reddit, there are recommendations but
| to be honest most of them seemed kind of too expensive for me.
|
| I'm planning to buy my own large format printer used on
| craigslist and learn to print large format myself. These printers
| are really expensive, and the heads can get gummed up easily but
| I'm hoping there's a way to make it pay for itself (renting it to
| friends, etc).
|
| For anything smaller, you are probably better off finding a local
| photography printer and paying them, or just go buy an inkjet.
| illwrks wrote:
| Look for "Glycee" printers, they are basically fancy inject
| prints.
|
| I had some prints done in the UK, onto archival paper, the print
| quality was fantastic. Depending on the source image your milage
| may vary though. I had prepped my own imagery and soft-proofed
| them prior to printing - I'm a designer so have a good
| understanding of what I'm doing.
| fat_cantor wrote:
| smugmug
| shrubble wrote:
| Adorama.com has good reviews by some.
|
| I think asking on the dpreview.com forum for printing, or the
| photo.net forum is likely to get you good infirmation, from
| people who care about printing photos rather than signs.
| dtagames wrote:
| Bay Photo[0] in California was an early innovator and is the best
| in the business. You can get real museum quality printing on
| canvas or other materials. Nice folks and a great user interface,
| too. I've used them for more than 25 years.
|
| [0]https://bayphoto.com
| PaulHoule wrote:
| Chains like Staples, Office Depot, Kinko's, etc. will print files
| that you send them and you can pick them up.
|
| Drugstores such as Walgreens have an expensive large format
| printer but only stock glossy photo paper. Wal-Mart does photo
| printing too.
|
| Some art looks good on glossy paper, but if you want matte go to
| the "office" chains.
|
| Personally I own an inkjet printer and make decorative cards
| (both photo and art reproduction) regularly. I started the hobby
| with basic printers and came to the conclusion that: (1) a cheap
| inkjet printer does great work with quality paper and ink (don't
| mess around with off-brand ink), (2) if you print yourself you
| get an element of control that you don't get from the store.
| (Particularly if you want to get borderless prints just right)
|
| I got my first printer for free until the pick roller gave out,
| bought an ET-4760, discovered that the ink fades rapidly in the
| sun, then I upgraded to an ET-8550 because of the better ink and
| ability to feed through the back which means no fighting the pick
| roller when you use particularly thick or thin papers.
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