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Each print is made and quality-controlled by me. I make many test prints of each individual Dexploration image before I am fully satisfied. Having worked as a commercial artist and graphic designer for a quarter of a century and dealt extensively with commercial printers and printing technologies, I have very high standards for what constitutes quality reproduction.
I use an Epson Stylus Pro 4000 printer. This printer, and its larger siblings, is now widely used by many museums and other publishers of fine art reproductions — such as the Boston Museum of Art. Like me, they evaluated many print technologies before settling on the Epson Pro printers. This is simply the best technology available today for long-lasting, high-quality art and photo reproduction. You can find more high-tech printer information at those two weblinks. But in brief this superb printer uses seven different inks, for maximum color range and subtle tones. These inks yield a much greater tonal range, color intensity and detail than is possible with the ordinary four-color offset-based printing used for cheap mass-market posters. I use only the original Epson Archival Quality inks. These are permanent, pigmented inks, and when used with the proper paper the inks are waterproof and smudgeproof.
Scientific light fastness ratings for the Epson Stylus Pro 4000 on various paper qualities can be downloaded here (Acrobat PDF file). These tests are made by the Wilhelm Imaging Research, an independent, well-reputed company specializing in print preservation research. The paper I use for my prints is Epson UltraSmooth Fine Art paper, which Wilhelm Imaging Research rates for at least 75 years under normal, non-UV glass and over 200 years under UV glass before "noticeable changes" occur.
I sign and number the prints in the right corner, slightly inside the image area so it will still show when properly framed. But it's tiny and unobtrusive. The prints are numbered like this: x/200, with "x" being your unique number. 200 copies is the maximum I will ever make of any of these Museum Quality Limited Edition prints. |
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The maximum paper width of the Epson Stylus Pro 4000 is 43 cm (17"), though the prints can be a long as needed.
I make all my prints 41cm (16") high, leaving a 1cm (0.3") white border all around.
The three print sizes above are shown to the same relative scale.
My pricing is closely related to my expenses for paper and ink — for this kind of Museum Quality reproduction is expensive. The bigger the print, the more I must charge — and of course, I also like to squeeze out every penny of profit I can. |
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