These Photo Paper Prints are Affordable and High-Quality
Physical prints, such as photo paper prints and metal prints, are one of the better ways to promote our work and are also enjoyable simply to have for our own enjoyment.
Let me introduce you to the company I’ve been using lately to supply physical canvas, acrylic, metal, and photo paper prints, Artbeat Studios.
The reason that Artbeat Studios first came to my attention was research for an article we did about metal prints. Artbeat Studios actually won our 2020 Metal Print Shootout. Besides their metal prints, they also offer a wide variety of types and styles of printing solutions, including matting and frames.
Printing Is a Service
The actual prints are one thing, we require excellence. The best materials, good craftsmanship, accurate colors, sharpness, and so on. We want the print to accurately portray the image file we carefully crafted ourselves.
Photographic printing is more than the product. It’s a service that provides a product so we want the service to be top tier as well. A high level of customer service and having reasonably quick turnaround time are also important.
Pricing is also a factor, though many of us are more than willing to pay a little extra to ensure good service and prints. Artbeat Studios provides us with all the quality we desire and their pricing remains very competitive and reasonable.
Photo Paper Print Styles
Artbeat Studios offers photo paper prints in three styles, Photo Paper, Metallic Paper, and Fine Art Paper.
Photo Paper prints use Epson® glossy photo paper that was designed for displaying photographs. This paper has excellent color rendition, remaining very true to the image file being reproduced. If you developed a print to have a deep blue and bright whites, that’s what these photo paper prints will have.
The Photo Paper prints have a high level of sharpness. If the resolution of the file allows a certain size of enlargement, that print will look sharp. A nice feature of the service is that the website will display a notice of what the maximum recommended size enlargement is.
Metallic Paper prints are printed on Moab® Slick Rock Metallic Paper. This paper stock has a subtle iridescence to the finish which makes the image appear more dramatic. The Metallic Paper prints have a very accurate color as well and images just seem to pop when printed on this style of paper.
Fine Art Paper prints from Artbeat Studios are printed on Breathing Color® Fine Art Paper which offers the ultimate in sharpness and color accuracy and also perfect for fine art black and white photography prints.
This museum grade, archival level photo paper is 310g bright white paper made from acid free 100% cotton fiber and has an ultra smooth finish. It’s their most expensive of their photo paper print options and the results for the right image file are outstanding. For larger size prints of high resolution files, this is my top choice.
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Photo Paper Print Sizes
I mentioned earlier that the website will display their recommended maximum print size for each individual file you upload which is part of what makes Artbeat Studios a great printing service. So what are the sizes they will supply as photo paper prints?
They start at 8x10 inches and go all the way up to 40x60 inches which equals 3 ½ by 5 feet! Besides the standard or classic image ratios for enlargements, they also provide the in-between sizes for full image areas of our camera formats such as 16x24 or 24x36 inches.
Photo Paper Print Frames
Artbeat Studios will mount your finished photo paper prints of any paper style or size in a frame made from wood in either black or white. There are two frame styles, a box frame or a close to flush mount flat frame, making the total number of options as 4 different frame styles.
A nice part of the service part of dealing with Artbeat Studios is that you can see a 3D representation of your image in the different frame style to help you choose. More frame styles are promised to be available soon.
Other Printing Options
In addition to their excellent photo paper prints in all of these styles and sizes, Artbeat Studios also has other options for displaying prints for your business or your personal enjoyment, Canvas prints, acrylic prints, metal prints, and 8x8 inch Magnetic Photo Tiles that snap together to create wall displays of your images.
Artbeat Studios combines excellent customer service, an easy to use website, and superb print quality, all at reasonable prices. Try them out yourselves to see why I’m so fond of them for my photo business printing needs and my own home and office decor.
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