Photo printing techniques

12 years 3 months ago #193424 by Wi1tt13
I have a few photos that I'd like to have enlarged into 16x20 prints. They are excellent photos that I took while on vacation and I just don't trust the results I'd get from Walmart or Kinko's printing. I asked around to a few local professional photographers to see what they would suggest or where to go in town. I found two places with two different techniques and I'm not sure what the real nuts and bolts difference is.

The first shop told me their Piezo inks are certified Archival for 100+ years and qualify when matched with our Pearl stock as Giclee, or museum quality.

The other shop told me they use a silver halide with Fuji paper process that would produce better whites and deeper colors.

Is anyone out there familiar with either of these styles? What is the real benefit to one or the other and/or would I be able to tell any kind of difference with the naked eye?


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12 years 3 months ago #193427 by Martini
Which of the 4 available aspect ratios your camera has did you use to make the originals 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, or 1:1? Because a 16x20 has an aspect ratio of 5:4.

The first lab is making inkjet prints.
How nice the final print winds up being depends on how you prepare the image file and what paper you choose to have the file printed on.

The second lab is making chromogenic prints.
How nice the print winds up being depends on how you prepare the image file, and which of the 7 or so Fuji papers the lab has available for you to choose from, if you have a choice.

For chromogenic prints I generally prefer Kodak Professional Supra Endura, or Metallic, VC Digital Paper over any of the Fuji papers, because the Kodak paper has a longer archival life span (100 years in home display and 200 years in dark storage.)

I have prints made by both processes, giclée and chromogenic. Which process I use depends mostly on the the image I am having printed.


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12 years 3 months ago #193429 by Wi1tt13
The photos were shot at an aspect ratio of 4:3.


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12 years 3 months ago #193433 by Martini

Wi1tt13 wrote: The photos were shot at an aspect ratio of 4:3.


You're going to have to crop the 4:3 photo to have a 5:4 print made.


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12 years 3 months ago #193434 by Wi1tt13
I'm OK with cropping the pictures a bit. Losing a half inch on each side won't bother me much. Its just in which style? I almost wonder if I'm over thinking that one...I probably would be very happy with either printing style.


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12 years 3 months ago #193435 by Britt340
I do think you are over thinking it. Both printing style methods are good, it's just all depends on what you want to use for that print.


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