a work in progress

After pricing fine art prints and then having a print job come back to me with the colors way off, I decided to improve my printing capabilities. I can now offer prints of all my paintings! It’s been amazing to see the quality of these prints and so much fun to watch a sold painting come back to life. My godson thought I had repainted a painting I sold a couple years ago the quality is so fine!

I selected an Epson printer which has incredible resolution at 5760 x 1440 optimized dpi and makes archival prints with 8-color pigment ink. This is better resolution than the large giclee printers and it even boasts ink droplets as small as 1.5 picoliters. Some of the big print houses refer to these prints as Studio Lab Prints to accentuate the quality of their output and distinguish them from other giclees. Furthermore, these inks and papers can last up to two hundred years! I have spent quite a bit of time testing different papers and working with the color management and am now creating my own fine art prints on paper and canvas. (I’ll post more later about the different papers I’ve tried .)
Word is getting out and I’ve already completed one job printing photos for someone else and will be working on another set of prints for a local business tonight or tomorrow. So much for the painting I had planned to complete! More ink is on the way and that’s a good thing as I need to make some more prints for the gallery and for Friday’s White Street Walk Studio Tour.