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Print-on-Demand: Custom Photographic Printing Service
The effect of print-on-demand custom production has been steadily increasing, as printers, inks, and substrates have improved dramatically over the last dozen years. Increasingly, artists and photographers are relying on high-quality, archival custom printing services for production giclee prints and editions.
There has been a rapid increase in bureau services offering custom photographic printing, as well as other types of on-demand color printing. This is especially true for self-publishing artists, galleries and fine art publishers in the Kansas City area. Many new bureau services have appeared with a variety of background experiences. Potential giclee publishers have a wide range of expertise to choose from, with some bureau services offering specialism such as custom photographic printing: giclees for photography. In Kansas City, Luke's Lab is THE source for specialty custom photographic printing.
Giclee images are saved as a digital file and can be produced singly, or more, whenever required, by the custom photographic printing service. The prints will be exactly the same at the start and end of a print run. Or, the artist may choose to make changes to the image, so that each output is slightly different. Control of images in this way is a valuable option for many photographers and artists.
Quality and Custom Photographic Printing
According to the Fine Art Trade Guild, "the visual quality of the print result is extremely high with seeming continuous tone prints without dots, lines or barring. The color saturation and definition can be stunning...With so many more combinations of machine, ink and paper available, test results are not always available for the latest prints, but 99.9% of pigmented ink sets are now scoring extremely high in blue wool tests."
On-demand, custom photographic printing is the best of both worlds for both photographers and for the buying public. Custom photographic printing allows publishers to be freed from the necessity to hold large stocks; galleries have more choice and the collecting public has been stimulated by wider choice and better quality.
For Custom Photographic Printing in Kansas City
Luke's Lab serves primarily Kansas City, including Kansas City, KS; Kansas City, MO; Overland Park, KS; Shawnee, KS; Mission, KS and all surrounding Missouri and Kansas communities in the 7-county Kansas City metro area.