john_g
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A while back I read about the launch of a drop-in print centre in London and last week finally got round to trying it. It vastly exceeded my expectations on all fronts - the premises are large and airy with an environment totally designed to assure print work can be done to the top standards - the retouching booths, for example, are painted grey, have top-notch monitors and allowed me to colour-proof my work (and adjust if necessary) before it was printed. And that costs just £3 for a quick fifteen minute session. The staff were helpful and friendly and spent time explaining everything to me, helping me to choose the paper and process that would suit my work and generally made sure everything went smoothly. I just did one 20"x16" print, which cost £11 + VAT - little more than Photobox for example, and the print was turned around in 20 minutes. I'll definitely be going back and would highly recommend it to others here. They told me that, next month, they are launching a postal service but, for me, part of the value is in being able to drop in, proof my images and walk out half an hour later with my prints.
Their website is here: http://www.theprintspace.com/
The only things I'd point out is that the quoted prices don't include VAT and that they want images to be 8 bit, resized to match the desired print size, at 300 ppi.
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Fen
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"Epson Giclée Prints" They too posh to call them inkjets 
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Monobod
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It might be a good service but at over £100+VAT for ten prints, it is massively more expensive than home printing, even taking into account the up front hardware costs of a top flight printer, unless, of course, you don't print many images.
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velocette
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Sounds interesting to me as one without a large format or particularly moden printer. Thanks for the link I may well give them a vist as I've had a panarama I stitched together that I've been hoping to do something with. Also I think that the real benefit to Giclée prints is when copying oil paintings as it can actually build up the same depth of paint used in the original. At least that's the case in the large print hanging in me lounge.
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john_g
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Also I think that the real benefit to Giclée prints is when copying oil paintings as it can actually build up the same depth of paint used in the original. At least that's the case in the large print hanging in me lounge.
I went there thinking I'd be using the Giclée process, but was bowled over by the matt C-type print samples they showed me - and it was £1 cheaper! (due to the high cost of Epson inks, they told me.)
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Monobod
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I do quite a lot of my colour and monochrome printing on Epson Archival Matte paper. I really like the results as there are no reflections when viewed from a side angle.
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