Hi all,
can anyone give any help / tips how to go about getting prints done of artwork? I've never done it before & have been asked for prints of some of my orginals.
Thanks
Julie

Hi Julie I joined a free site called http://www.imagekind.com. You can order as and when you need them and they are quite reasonable.But as yet I havn't been asked for any.
The only down side your buyer will have to wait a week or two for delivery.
A 32in x 24 in on a deep box canvas is $123 which is qite large but they do different sizes.

Good question - I've just been asked for a print myself, totally out of the blue.

Canvas sounds a bit elaborate for most of the stuff I do - I wonder if there's any similar companies who can produce a good finish on satin-type quality paper, somewhere between A4 and A3 size?

I suppose if it comes down to it, most towns and cities have at least one good printers who could print on demand for a few quid?

Most prnters now do digital printing which is pretty good and can be done in small numbers. Usually the image is scanned first ( Fee of around

When i looked at Giclee printers a considerable time ago, Intelligence Direct (http://www.intelligence-direct.com) were a good price, and offered proof prints at a reasonable cost (A4 size) so you could check the colour match and the paper quality. In the end I didn't use them, and do my own prints (greyscale monochrome is very hard for a colour printer to do sufficiently accurately).

They didn't do scanning, so you had to get your own digital files some other way. I can't check their current services as their website is down.

Thanks for the advice there!

CW

I don't know what's available in Great Britain, but here in Canada I have a local digital image printer do my limited edition giclee prints. I can have one print done, to as many as I want, at one time. I use imagekind, as referred to in another post, to do open editions of my prints. With them the buyer has the choice of whatever kind of paper he wants to use, from inexpensive poster paper, to acid free museum paper, and canvas, with the price varying accordingly. You also choose the mark-up that you want, and that amount is what you receive when you sell a print!
I would definitely recommend that you use a fine art printer though!

Hi Nathalie.I havn't ordered any yet through image kind,what is the quality like?The prices are qite reasonable.

the quality is good, you just have to make sure that you upload a LARGE photo of your work, good quality....I'd gotten one each of my work as Christmas presents for my family, as I was out in the bush, and didn't have any ability to buy anything!!

I might order one for myself.I sold an Original I was really fond of so I might treat myself to a print of it in Giclee on a Box Canvas for the living Room.It was a cheery Sunset.