Our printing services use only the best available archival materials to produce prints that are suitable for sale and exhibition, or simply display in your own home. Galleries and museums around the world now accept prints made with these materials, and in some cases prints made using these processes and materials now sell for higher prices than prints made with traditional photographic fine art printing methods (e.g. silver gelatin or c-type prints).

We have samples for viewing of all of these papers at our office in North Melbourne.  If you're interstate or can't get into the office, we suggest sending a print job down and having a few sample A4s made on the most popular papers - so you can get an idea of just how beautiful these materials are! 

N.B. Not all papers are available at all sizes - please see the chart at the bottom of this page for availability details.

Notes on printing with fine art materials from the FAQ - please read these to make sure you understand our processes and what you are ordering.

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• THE BEST INKS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:
• The Ultrachrome HDR Inks
  
  
• SMOOTH MATTE FINE ART PAPERS:
• Hahnemuhle Photo Rag - A smooth, ultra-matte fine art cotton rag paper, clean whites
• Hahnemuhle Bamboo A warm tone, smooth fine art paper that is made from 90% bamboo, a highly renewable resource - this is our most ecologically friendly paper option and is just beautiful!
• Museo (Crane) Portfolio Rag - An excellent new alternative to Photo Rag, an ultra-matte fine art cotton rag paper with no optical brighteners at all - our favourite paper!
• Hahnemuhle Rice Paper - This paper is a fantastic representation of traditional sumi-e papers used in calligraphy art. It's also used in the making of decals for surfboards etc - basically, a print is coated with polyurethane or similar, and the unprinted paper goes clear leaving just the image on show!
  
  
• TEXTURED MATTE FINE ART PAPERS:
• Hahnemuhle Torchon - A pleasantly textured ultra-matte fine art cotton rag paper
• Hahnemuhle German Etching - This heavyweight etching board is velvety smooth with a fine surface texture. German Etching is one of the most popular media worldwide for artwork and photography.
  
  
• GLOSS AND SEMI GLOSS FIBRE BASED FINE ART PAPERS:
• Ilford Galerie Gold Mono Silk - Ilford's flagship fibre based paper for black and white prints, it's also great for colour!
  
• Chromajet Metallic Pearl - Gorgeous, highly dimensional high gloss paper with a remarkable 'pearlescent' metallic finish.
• Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag - This paper provides the aesthetic and feel of the original F-Type Baryta Fibre paper, having a true pure white tone without using optical brighteners that are known to affect the longevity of digitally produced images.
  
  
• RESIN COATED MEDIA
• Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl - The world's most popular inkjet paper with the classic photo look! Very robust, great for albums, indeed any context where prints will be handled.
  
  
• CANVAS AND FABRICS
• Hahnemuhle Monet Canvas - True artists cotton canvas with a matte, lightly toothed surface.
• Lowlands Linen - Gorgeous 100% Belgian linen, this has a lovely thick weave.  Suitable for all applications where you want a textured material look.  Also a great alternative to canvas for art prints and art reproduction purposes.
• PhotoTex - A self adhesive polyester fabric, perfect for things like signage, wallpapers, wraps, etc - many, many uses, and the adhesive is amazing - non marking, removable, very re-useable.
  
  
• OTHERS
• Self Adhesive Vinyl - Weather resistant and self adhesive, this vinyl is very robust and capable of surprisingly good quality results. Great for book covers, signs, and other creative uses!
• Polyester Clear Film - For signage and for screen printing films
  
  
• Supply Your Own Media!
• BYO Media

Epson's Ultrachrome HDR Inks

Epson's Ultrachrome HDR inks are pigment based and offer a very wide colour gamut, and deep velvety blacks. Independently verified longevity ratings indicate the lifespan of these inks (when used on high quality papers) meets or (in most cases) exceeds the longevity ratings of other common colour printing processes - over 100 years for colour and over 200 years for black and white prints before visible fading occurs. The testing methodology used to produce these figures is vigorous and accepted industry wide, and while no one can point to a 200 year old inkjet print just yet, the same methodologies that are used to evaluate display and storage conditions of the world's most valuable art works are now being applied to inkjet prints.

Printing with these inks allows us to make prints that are free from unwanted artifacts and flaws often found in colour processes such as bronzing and metamerism. With these inks we can achieve exceptionally high quality results on a broad range of media types, from high gloss to completely matte watercolour papers, and on materials like canvas as well. Strong blacks, rich shadow detail, and a broad, smooth colour gamut allow for prints of both tremendous subtlety and great power.

With three separate black inks, smooth and neutral black and whites are possible. On some papers, black densities now significantly exceed traditional chemistry papers, giving images of startling luminosity and depth.

Hahnemuhle Bamboo

This new paper from Hahnemuhle is strikingly beautiful, and ecologically friendly!  The world’s first digital Fine Art Inkjet paper made from bamboo fibres combines spiritual photography with environmental friendliness.

This natural art paper with its premium inkjet coating guarantees Fine Art prints with a 3-dimensional image depth and is particularly suitable for warm-toned colour and monochrome prints. Its fine soft haptic also lends a tangible fourth dimension to fine art prints.

Key Features:

• Fibre based, 90% Bamboo, 10% Cotton Rag
• Warmtone, no OBAs present
• Acid free, fully archival
• Beautiful, rich prints!

Hahnemuhle Photo Rag

A traditional favourite - this paper offers good d-max (black density) and colour gamut. The surface is a lovely smooth matte finish, and the weight/rigidity of the paper at 308 gsm is excellent. The surface has a very slight texture (in fine art terms it is a smooth paper) - just enough texture to give the paper itself a little life, but not enough to impair image detail in any way. Papers don't come better than this, and if you haven't tried it yet you're in for a real treat!

Made from 100% cotton rag, and designed to last several centuries, this paper has been independently tested by Wilhelm Imaging Research in combination with the Epson Ultrachrome K3 inkset and in both colour and black and white offers longevity figures (for properly cared for prints) as good as anything in the industry.

Key Features

• 100% cotton rag
• 308 gsm
• Completely matte, smooth surface
• Bright white, unbleached (contains a small amount of optical brighteners)
• Acid Free
• Fantastic gamut and velvety deep blacks
• Excellent image sharpness

Hahnemuhle Torchon

Hahnemuhle Torchon is the textured equivalent of Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, with a classic water colour textured surface. A Torchon paper is one that is quite rigid and has an irregular texture. This paper is perfect for fine-art applications such as artwork reproduction and card making, and suits prints particularly well that rely on mood rather than fine details (think foggy morning shots, forest scenes, that sort of thing). This paper can add a real feel of handmade quality to your work (that can help drive sales!).

Key Features

• Cotton rag paper (designed to last several centuries)
• A very pleasant, watercolour paper texture (medium level of texture)
• 285 gsm
• Bright white (slightly brighter than Photo Rag), unbleached
• Acid Free
• Fantastic gamut and rich, deep blacks
• Good water resistance (we're told - still don't suggest you mix prints and water though!)

Hahnemuhle German Etching

German Etching is a white, 100% a-cellulose paper – guarantees archival standards. The mould-made etching paper features a distinct textured surface. With its premium matt inkjet coating German Etching meets the highest industry standards regarding density, colour gamut, colour graduation and image sharpness while preserving the special touch and feel of genuine art paper. Compatible with pigmented and dye inkjet systems.

Key Features

• A very pleasant, watercolour paper texture (medium level of texture)
• 310 gsm
• Acid Free
• Fantastic gamut and rich, deep blacks
• Very high water resistance
• Mould made

Museo Portfolio Rag (AKA Crane Portfolio Rag)

Museo's archival matte paper is 100% cotton rag - and a serious alternative to something like Hahnemuhle's venerable Photo Rag, the king of this market. The two papers offer print quality that is uncannily similar - but if we had to choose, we would choose Museo.  We think it is the best fine art matte rag inkjet paper in the world today.

Muso Portfolio Rag is quite smooth, and contains absolutely no optical brighteners.

Since Photo Rag first appeared years ago, many papers have tried to match it, but this is quite frankly the first serious alternative! Excellent colours and d-max bring great print quality to the table. Well worth a try!

Key Features:

• Museo Portfolio Rag is made to archival standards.
• 100% cotton
• Internally buffered
• No optical brighteners!
• Acid-free
• pH 7.9 – 8.5
• Weight: 300 gsm
• Thickness: 0.015" (380 µm)
• Extra smooth matte finish
• Flake-free coating
• Brightness 91

Hahnemuhle Rice Paper

Hahnemuhle Rice Paper is a white, 100% α-cellulose, laid finished paper guaranteeing archival standards. With its premium matte inkjet coating Rice Paper meets the highest industry standards regarding density, colour gamut, colour graduation and image sharpness while preserving the special touch and feel of genuine art paper, porous coating, making the traditional darkroom paper now available for your digital printing.

Key Features:

• Fibre Based
• Smooth Matte finish
• 100gsm
• No optical brighteners!
• Very flexible usage as being so thin, this paper can be used for laminating graphics on surf boards

Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl

The world's most popular inkjet paper - perfect for your day to day printing needs. It's got the classic photo look, and is highly robust, resistant to scratching and smudging - so perfect for albums and other 'high traffic' print contexts.

Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl paper features the very latest HDR (High Dynamic Range) optically clear nanoporous coating and coupled with recent advancements in nanoporous inkjet receiving layer design, makes this the reference media for producing images with superb clarity, high sharpness and excellent colour gamut.

The high-density heavyweight base and smooth pearl finish not only eliminate glare and fingerprints but with its natural photographic white tint, produce prints with the true look and feel of a photograph. For outstanding imaging performance, combined with the benefit of “touch dry” from the printer, this pearl surface media is the “choice of professionals”.

Key Features

• 310 gsm
• Pearl (semi-gloss) finish
• Very robust
• Excellent day to day/album paper
• Classic photo look!

Ilford Galerie Gold Mono Silk

Brought to market in 2013 and immediately winner of the prestigous TIPA award for best inkjet paper, this has a lovely classic gloss fibre based appearance (F-type, in the old language). It has very low gloss differential (much lower than Gold Fibre Silk) - and is actually very good with colour as well.

Fans of traditional black & white products no longer need a darkroom to bring to life their black and white prints. The contrast and transition between shadow and highlight areas is seamless thanks to the unique ILFORD nanoporous coating layer technology and coupled with exceptional Dmax and Dmin values, Gold Mono Silk is capable of delivering deep, rich blacks and bright whites.

Key Features

• Remarkable d-max - a really long tonal range for lovely black and white prints
• Excellent gamut - it may be called Mono but we use it for colour as well, with great success
• 270 gsm
• F-Type Gloss Fibre Surface
• Low gloss differential

ChromaJet Metallic Pearl

This paper has to be seen to be believed, it's really gorgeous.  It's a high gloss media with a remarkable metallic pearl finish.  With the right images it can really make them sing like no other paper - with a highly three dimensional look.

Key Features

• Metallic finish
• Pearlescent shimmering coating
• 255 GSM
• Fibre Based
• Amazingly three dimensional
• Unique - you should try this at least once as there's nothing else like it!

Canson Infinity Platine

Platine Fibre Rag is the combination of the premium 100% cotton Platinum paper that Canson has supplied for many years to the original Platinum and Platine photographic market, with the latest microporous coating, making the traditional darkroom paper now available for your digital printing. This really is a great looking paper and while consider a semi-gloss paper, it is really smooth also.

Key Features

• 100% Cotton Rag Platine
• Dries instantly
• Water resistant
• NO optical brighteners
• 310gsm
• Resin coated

Hahnemuhle Monet Canvas

For many years we printed happily on Canson Canvas but when they changed the product to Canson Infinity Museum Canvas, we weren't quite as happy with it, so the search was on for a better canvas.

Coincidentally around this time, Hahnemuhle launched their new inkjet canvas range - and in that range we found Hahnemuhle's Monet canvas - which in effect is an improved version of the old Canson Canvas. Visually the two are very similar, but the new Hahnemuhle canvas is even better.  The surface is again a lightly toothed surface that is distinctly canvas yet has been chosen specifically because it can hold very fine detail - second to none in fact.  So the results on this canvas remain extremely photographic in quality - although the canvas is equally at home in the graphic/illustrative market, and works well for a lot of art reproduction work too.

Hahnemuhle Monet Canvas is 410 GSM and 100% cotton, and stretches very well. It is completely acid and optical brightener free, for truly archival results. You can stretch this canvas just as with normal canvas. The coating is matte, but you can varnish with classic gel mediums (or use inkjet specific archival coatings) if you desire brush stroke or smooth varnish effects. Hahnemuhle Canvas is quite robust, standing up to regular handling and cleaning.

Key Features

• Cotton Canvas
• 410g/m2
• Bright white, unbleached
• Acid Free
• Optical brightener free
• Fantastic gamut and d-max
• Surprisingly good image sharpness for a canvas
• Good water resistance (we're told - still don't suggest you mix prints and water though!)
• Matte finish
• Accepts gel mediums and varnishes made for acrylics
• Stretchable
• Opens up a whole new world of affordable framing options!

Photo Tex

A self adhesive polyester fabric with a smooth texture, and is perfect for things like signage, wallpapers, wraps, etc - many, many uses, and the adhesive is amazing - non marking, removable, very re-useable. It can be placed in all weather conditions and it will not shrink or curl like vinyl. It won't rip or wrinkle and can be pulled apart if it folds over during installation.

These prints are only available on a 42 inch roll and can be printed up to a maxium width of 1 metre.

Key Features

• Smooth texture
• Non marking, removable & re-usable
• Holds colour really well
• Sharp print results
• Perfect for indoor use (particularly for renters!)
• No sheet sizes, only roll prints available

Magic Self-Adhesive Vinyl

Perhaps not quite in the same league as our other options, but capable of high quality results and useful none the less.

These prints can be fixed to just about anything, including as book covers, signs, wall coverings, furniture, you name it. All you need is a relatively flat surface, and you simply peel off the backing and stick. The print quality is very good and the prints are very durable, capable of withstanding significant outdoor exposure. The vinyl is totally matte, so offers very low glare properties, but you can of course laminate the prints to achieve gloss should you desire it.

These prints are only available from a 24 inch roll and we do not offer sheet printing on vinyl.

Key Features

• Self Adhesive Vinyl
• Robust, weather tolerant
• Very fade resistant
• Bright white
• Matte, low glare surface - perfect for signs (our own sign is made from this!)
• Will stick to almost anything (permanently!)
• No sheet sizes, only roll prints available

Polyester Clear Film

Polyester based clear film perfect for signage applications (e.g. decals in windows), or for use as the film for screen printing.

These prints are only available from a 24 in roll at the moment - if you need bigger let us know and we'll see what we can do.

Key Features

• Polyester Clear Film
• Suits Screen Printing Film applications (why not try Ink and Spindle for your screen printing - we work with them all the time and they're great!)
• No sheet sizes, only roll prints available
• Fixed price for screen printing films - 24 by 60 inches (610mm by 1524mm) - Just $110 inc GST

BYO Media

The Epson machines can handle all sorts of media, and if you'd prefer to use a particular paper or surface of your own not listed here, this is very possible. You will need to call us to discuss this (we will need to check media compatibility and make sure there is no risk to our printer), and we will produce a quote for your particular job.

We will require paper samples (a minimum of 4 A4 sheets) and 24 hours to produce an accurate profile for the paper before we can do the printing job.

Pricing from then on for prints will be 10% lower than the costs for prints on Photo Rag, as you're supplying the media, but of course most of the price mostly reflects the ink and time costs incurred in making prints.

NB the media MUST be inkjet compatible (for water based inks, NOT solvent based!) - it does not necessarily have to be a coated media, but very fibrous media can be damaging to the printer. If in doubt, show us a sample before you buy a lot of stock!