Fine Art Printing

Introduction
Ordering Details
Printing FAQ

Media and Ink Details:
Inks and Media
BYO Media

Technical Details:
File Preparation
Colour Management

Pricing:
Sheet Print Pricing
Roll Print Pricing

Art Reproduction:
Store'n'Print Art Repro Service
(Affordable short runs of Limited Edition prints!)

Notes on Printing With Fine Art Materials

Before printing at Image Science it is important to understand that most of the materials we use are not mass produced, commercial type materials - they are fine art materials, often hand made, and so each print will have unique character.

What this means in practice is that some of these materials hay have occasional small flaws that are part and parcel of the fine art print process. Because these flaws are unavoidable, and because they're inherent to the process, we can't guarantee your prints will be 100% flaw free in all cases. If you're looking for that sort of clinical perfection, these are not the right materials for you!

Here's the important part: If any flaw is major, or has a serious impact on the image, and we spot this flaw before you arrive, most likely we'll simply re-print the image. However, if the flaw is minor, we will not re-print the image at our expense. It's just not possible to run a fine art printing service at reasonable prices and guarantee that every print will be 100% flaw free.

We are happy to negotiate with you on this, and offer discounted re-prints, but as mentioned above these flaws are pretty much inevitable with these materials, and it is simply bad for our business and bad for the environment to re-do prints with very minor imperfections.

Most prints come out perfectly, however it is not impossible the following types of minor flaws may occur:

• Skewing on the page - this is the most common problem with larger prints, and you should factor this in when preparing your files - leave at least an inch around your images if possible. Your framer should be able to trim off the excess and bring the image back to perfectly square quite easily.
• Occasional white spots from dust spots - here a spot of dust has landed on the paper at some point, and then this has been printed over. The dust later falls off and hence a small white dot appears on the print. The dust often falls off quite some time after printing, so we may not even be aware of this occurring. Generally, these white dots can be touched up with a coloured pencil and a steady hand. It's no different from the days of silver gelatin prints and retouching inks for dust spots - although much much less common!
• Occasional surface imperfections, darker dust marks - modern papers have very exotic coatings, and very often multiple coatings (up to six separate coatings!). This means sometimes the papers will have small surface flaws and/or darker spots on the surface due to dust or cotton seeds.