Exercise 5.2: Print quotes

Exercise 5.2: Print quotes

1. As part of the activities for this module I have looked at multiple vendors for the printing of images. There is a balance to be found between cost and quality. There is also a difference to be found be customer service in terms who wants to help, I found this quite refreshing in some cases

Most vendors wont give quotes, you simply use their website and through a series of selections are able to price of the work you want printed.  Many offer calibration cards and jpegs to help you get colours matching this on the screen t print card to help avoid the photographer seeing an image in colours of a certain shade on their screen being surprised when seeing the final print

2. The relevant print company will want a file in a preffered minimum file size. resolution (ideally 300 dpi) will need to be set as will the colour profile to match want the printer recommends (e.g. sRGB)

A significant element I've learnt as part of this landscape is that your printed images doe not have to fully fill the paper size. Of course when thinking about this, many framed printed images are not filly filling the frame but will have a border of some kind. Prints for the assignments and assessments will benefit from this approach of having a decent border. paper type, weight and type of print can vary considerably

3. Can an image on inkjet be considered a photograph. I wonder where this question has come from as pre-digital the photograph was what was developed on the photographic paper was the photograph. The medium from which the camera captured image is put onto is my mind is the photograph/in the digital world until this point its a digital image.

The quality of an image produced by an inkjet print may have a variable quality and traditionally will be on normal paper but can be printed onto photographic paper. In the same way a vendor produced photographic print can also vary in quality.

Wikipedia's definition of a photograph is "a picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused on to light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally". I would tend to a agree do an inkjet print is a photograph but likely not of a quality one might expect for a normal printed photograph. It all depends on the requirement