Comments for Art Print Appreciation

Comment on Good printer for art prints? by tmolhoek

tmolhoek — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:23:54 +0000

For art projects, stick with inkjet. HP is good.

If you are looking for wide format (11 x 17) here is the link for HP’s line.

Comment on Good printer for art prints? by Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:37:50 +0000

anything HP that is a printer should be really reliable when it comes to printing photos.
i have a HP home printer and a portable HP printer specifically just for 5×7 photos.

Comment on I am an artist, and was wondering how you can enlarge your art, into banners or posters? by Vince M

Vince M — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:27:47 +0000

The real key is to design the work with the full size in mind. Blowing up small pieces of art to extremely large size often produces disappointing results. Small pixels, (after scanning) become big, ugly, jaggedy pixels. Details get lost. Print quality suffers.

If the image is created large enough, from the beginning, it will suffer less after enlargement.

In the meantime, if your pieces can be scanned, be sure that it is done in the highest resolution possible. Do not pay attention to anyone who tells you that a fixed number, such as 300 ppi, all you need. A nine by twelve inch image, scanned to 300 ppi will not enlarge as well as an eighteen by twenty image scanned at 300 ppi. Not just ppi, but the more TOTAL pixels in an image, the better the enlargement.

For large scale scanning, I take my original work to a professional service bureau, like an industrial print shop. Otherwise, I design my digital art to fit the final project size, and then take the file to the printer’s.

Comment on I am an artist, and was wondering how you can enlarge your art, into banners or posters? by susan s

susan s — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:37:34 +0000

Depending on what kind of art. If it is flat and is flexible, you can get it “drum” scanned. Although it is costly, it does offer you the best quality for enlarging.

If it is not able to wrap around a drum, then you can get a good photographer and enlarge photos…

Comment on What is the market for online art? by {SA}Killshot{PP}

{SA}Killshot{PP} — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:17:20 +0000

…um yeah ever hear of ebay..? go to

Comment on in your zwinky dorm room how do you get posters, flags, and more wall art in your room? by Lizzie

Lizzie — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:14:07 +0000

go to target they really pretty pictures for under 20 bucks also hobby lobby (if you have it) Good Luck!!

Comment on How can I make art prints of my work to sell — please? by hyesp24

hyesp24 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:30:12 +0000

I doubth staples has a art printing section and i’m not sure about kinkos.

You might want to do the giclee process. I.e. reproduce the original on canvas or other paper types using high quality printers. This site offers really reasonable prices and the quality is just grat too.

You might try searching for photo canvas on google or yahoo also.

Comment on How can I make art prints of my work to sell — please? by David M

David M — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:48:13 +0000

a digital photo is probably fine, depends what you actually want the prints for. you could even probably take them to kinko’s and have them print them on anything. a card stock would be best (thick paper) so people could just stick it up on their wall.
you should also decide if you want them actual size, in proportion or shrunk to fit. if you don’t want it shrunken and you don’t want to have kinkos print on a bigger piece of paper and then cut it try something like
if you’re planning to make a career out of art can i suggest not making prints or making very few. they devalue your work and unless your extremely famous and hand sign them each they aren’t worth more than the paper they’re printed on.

Comment on whats the best printer for fine ART PRINTS? by robyn

robyn — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:03:46 +0000

That depends on the quantity and quality of the edition you want to produce.After all you have litho’s, offset litho, serigraph (screen printing),etching, engraving, wood block, lino cuts, and last but not least the new version giclée printing. The most economical for the single artist would be giclée. The set up fees are low, they can be full color on canvas or paper and can be produced on demand with archival uv inks. See daviddory.com under “the big picture” to see the importance of having prints made.

Comment on Cant find a certain celtic art poster? by RustSKIPper

RustSKIPper — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:32:49 +0000

Hey Mindy,

Google and Yahoo searches have their limits. When you reach their limits, think what category the specific thing is that you want, look for that. In this case, art or Fine Art. The Fine Art sites below include selling posters of the art that they also show and sell. If you cannot find it on one of these sites, then, call around to galleries and museums. If this is Celtic, you might consider looking in the Glasgowmuseums.com first.