US giclee print company?

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Nov 4, 2005
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anyone recommend a good US giclee print company?

thanks

Chris

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Bill Hilton
Nov 4, 2005
Chris writes …

anyone recommend a good US giclee print company?

If by ‘giclee’ you mean high end inkjets (not just IRIS-like models) then I can recommend two high-end shops in California, Calypso in Santa Clara and West Coast Imaging near Yosemite. Both print giclees on Epson 9600/9800’s and both also print with lasers (LightJet for Calypso and Chromira for WCI). These are not the low cost bargain outfits, these are the shops used by top pro photographers like Jack Dykinga, Galen Rowell, Frans Lanting, Robert Glenn Ketchum etc for exhibition quality prints, but if you do your own pre-flighting the prices are pretty good, at least compared to my local shops.

http://www.westcoastimaging.com/
http://www.calypsoinc.com/

Bill
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Roger Whitehead
Nov 4, 2005
In article , Bill
Hilton wrote:
if you do your own pre-flighting the prices are pretty good

What’s "pre-flighting"? I’ve not heard the term before.



Roger
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Bill Hilton
Nov 4, 2005
Roger Whitehead writes …

What’s "pre-flighting"? I’ve not heard the term before

Come to think of it I never heard the term either until I took a class at Calypso 🙂 Anyway, it’s just jargon meaning to do all the digital prep work ahead of time so they can dump the file into the printer without doing any other work on it (except to gang it with other such files).

Specifically, for their LightJet you’d do all the color corrections and soft-proof using one of their ICC profiles you downloaded earlier, resize to 304.8 ppi at the size you wish to print at (LightJet is res 12), sharpen, convert-to-profile using their profile, add a white canvas border (if desired) and add a black line to the edge for cutting (inside stroke 4 pixels wide). Then you send them an uncompressed 8 bit tiff and they don’t have to do anything else with it except print and cut. For doing all this you get a lower price.
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Roger Whitehead
Nov 4, 2005
In article , Bill
Hilton wrote:
Anyway, it’s just jargon meaning to do all the digital
prep work ahead of time

Thanks. I shall use it next time I want to show off in other photo groups. 😎

For doing all this you get a lower price.

I should hope so!

Cheers,

Roger
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chris
Nov 5, 2005
thanks!

Chris

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