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Click on any of the thumbnails above to see
photographs of actual prints, made on 19 mil Arches Infinity
textured French art paper.
Comments
from our patrons:
"Fabulous."
— John Hendricks
Silver Spring, Md.
Founder and CEO
Discovery Communications The Discovery Channel
"It's wonderful! Thank you for all those prints! They're just beautiful."
— Illustrator Joan Auclair
New Hartford, Conn.
"They all look spectacular. I am looking forward to getting the large format print when you have it."
— Andrew Edwards, New York
"Wow. You could sell these for big bucks!"
— Ken Booth, editor in chief Alabama Live (AL.com)
"They look great. The color is really vibrant on that nice thick paper."
— Richard Eccleston
Creative director
Automobile magazine
"Hope you got some extra orders from north of the border. The prints are fantastic, thank you."
— Bill Blake
Richmond, British Columbia
"The picture is even better than I expected, and I was expecting something great. We are delighted and hope to have it framed and on the wall before Christmas. And it won't just be a Christmas decoration — it will be up there permanently."
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OUR LARGE-FORMAT GICLEE PRINTS are lovingly
handcrafted on the Plan59 premises in Fairfax Virginia by David
Hall, who has been in the publishing business for 20 years. For years visitors to
the site had been asking about prints, so we finally took the plunge
in April 2005. Our fine-art prints are much nicer than the
offset-lithography posters you'd buy in retail stores. Not merely blown-up
versions of the images on the site, our prints are created using
high-resolution master files of 50 to over 300 megabytes in size,
made from imaging vintage source materials at 500 to 1,000 dpi (dots
per inch) on a commercial-grade flatbed scanner with professional
color-correction software (Binuscan IPM). After capture, images are
restored and optimized for large-format printing.
PAPERS. Our prints are struck on
Crane textured fine art paper from New England (since 1879, Crane
has made the paper that U.S. currency is printed on) and
Arches Infinity mould-made watercolor paper imported from
France. These are beautiful textured (herringbone pattern), 100
percent cotton archival papers that come in five size ranges, 15-19 mil thick: 13 x 19 inch
sheets, 17 x 22 inch sheets (50 percent bigger than 13 x 19), roll stock 24 inches
wide by up to 80 inches long, roll stock 36 inches wide (Crane; Very
Large format) and roll stock 44 inches wide by up to
100 inches long (Grand Large format). These papers
produce
gorgeous results. Our budget prints are made on 13 x 19 inch
Epson Radiant White 11.5 mil
watercolor paper, a lightly textured stock approximately the
thickness and stiffness of a business card.
PAPER THICKNESS & FINISH. The 19 mil Arches (pronounced
"Airsh") and 15 mil Crane papers are similar in thickness to posterboard. The textured stock has a herringbone
finish that's very arty and quite beautiful. Domestic (U.S.) orders
are shipped with Delivery Confirmation via Priority Mail, in
heavy-duty cardboard mailing tubes four inches in diameter (five
inches for Very Large and Grand Large prints). Prints should be
removed from the tube promptly upon delivery. Once they are mounted,
matted and framed they will be perfectly flat. Giclee is
French for "sprayed ink" (but sounds so much nicer); prints are made using eight-color Ultrachrome
inks (cyan, light cyan, magenta, light magenta, yellow, matte black,
light black, light light black) on a $6000 industrial-size piece of
equipment, the
Epson 9800 Stylus Pro.
PAYMENTS are via PayPal, an
eBay company; if you don't have a PayPal account you can use a
credit card. If you're unhappy for any reason with your print,
return it in the original mailing tube and we'll refund your money.
COMMISSIONS. If you have an old ad, map, family photograph,
magazine cover or anything else you'd like restored and turned into
large-format artwork, contact us t0 request a quote.
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