View single post by Judith

Posted: Sun Jun 7th, 2015 22:28

Joined:	Sat Apr 14th, 2012
Location:	Scotland, United Kingdom
Posts:	325
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If you got good enough results from sending out to a pro printing company and aren't looking for volume printing, you could save yourself a lot of money buying all the equipment. I've been investigating prices and it's not really that expensive to get the fine art quality prints done at a lab. I saw sample prints at a tradeshow recently and they looked good to me. :)

Here are a few prices from a list I was looking at earlier (2nd price incudes VAT):

14x10" Fine Art Print(6.18) 7.42
10x14" Fine Art Print (6.18) 7.42
14x11" Fine Art print (6.80) 8.16
11x14" Fine Art print (6.80) 8.16
14x14" Fine Art Print (8.61) 10.33
15x10" Fine Art print (6.59) 7.91
10x15" Fine Art print (6.59) 7.91
15x12" Fine Art Print (7.91) 9.49
12x15" Fine Art Print (7.91) 9.49
15x15" Fine Art Print (9.89) 11.87
16x11" Fine Art Print (7.75) 9.30
11x16" Fine Art Print (7.75) 9.30
16x12" Fine Art print (8.45) 10.14
12x16" Fine Art print (8.45) 10.14
16x16" Fine Art Print (11.29) 13.55

I hated printing my own stuff. Could never get the colours right, even with a profile. I've seen good reviews of the Canon Pro printer which has 12 ink tanks incl various black and grey tones (if I remember rightly), and people rave about Hannemuhle fine art paper if you fancy the DIY challenge. :-)