The focus of our work is specific to reproducing oil, watercolour, and acrylic paintings, as well as drawings and digital artwork.While generative AI technology shows great potential as a useful creative tool for artists, the unethical practices of the developers of these programs overshadows any benefits.The indiscriminate scraping of visual media off the internet [...]
Canvas Print Size Variation Because canvas is a fabric, and it needs to be varnished for archival longevity, the sizing of the finished canvas can vary slightly. The giclee printer also needs to stretch the canvas taught to print onto the surface, thus pulling the cavas while the ink is being laid down. We [...]
We calibrate all of our giclée print equipment specifically for the reproduction of paintings, watercolours, drawings and digitally created art. All print shops are not equal, we specifically use matte inks in most all of our reproduction work, printed on matte papers. Where as photography printers use photo inks (satin or gloss) for printing [...]
Scanning and Photographing • Digitizing your Art • Image File Services We have three digitizing levels depending on your image file needs. 1. Digitizing Services - (for in-house printing) Creating digital files for in-house printing - When having your paintings scanned or photographed and printed with us; we will provide you with a cleaned up, cropped, and technically [...]
Why don't printed colours match what I see on the monitor? Printers just can't print colours the way they look on a monitor, period. An image may look great on the monitor but doesn't print true to the screen. These colours will never be a perfect match because the image on the screen and the image [...]
Best Painting Practices for Fine Art Reproduction. Here at Art Ink Print we take great care to reproduce our clients original artworks as faithfully as possible. Creating a high quality digital image is the foundation for every print job, a low resolution or poorly lit photograph results in distorted printed images with potential colour casts and [...]
If you have created your art digitally or have high quality photo's of your hand crafted masterpiece, share it with us with the greatest of ease, following these handy tips! Our online order forms are the easiest way to get started, and allow you to add all releveant details such as size and paper [...]
Are you storing your image files as JPEGS? If so, you may inadvertently be losing clarity and detail over time, compromising print quality. It is a surprisingly little know fact that JPEGS are NOT a particularly great way to store your artwork files. For anyone who edits their own artwork images, you may be surprised to [...]
Is scanning or photographing artwork better for reproductions? You want to make your painting or drawing into a full size reproduction, or maybe made into art cards. How do you know if you should get your artwork scanned or get it captured (digitally photographed)? Scanning: Scanning provides much higher resolution images - up to 6400 dpi [...]
File Naming Conventions If you've ever struggled to find an image you need and gotten lost in endless folders in your computer you will understand the importance of having a system to organize your files. A file naming convention will make it easy to use your computer's search function to pinpoint what you are [...]