I am looking at the possibility of moving back to Oregon but will need a good lab with decent prices to do my FujiFLEX prints on a Lightjet, Lambda or Chromira. I also need them to be face mounted to Acrylic and back mounted to Dibond with little to no contaminations.
I need my main lab to be in the state I live, and preferably in the Portland area so I can go down and sign all my work without excess shipping costs and time.
Any and all recommendations are very much appreciated.
Thank you.
Posted by Phil Knouf on December 5, 2011 at 11:01 AM
Mark,
May I suggest you look at http://www.udevelop.com . Their digital services are called Digicraft. They offer Chromira for printing and it appears they do offer DiBond for back mounting. Their website does appear to offer face mount to Acrylic. Of course a quick phone call will answer that. I have used them in the past for Chromira prints and was very satisfied. I no longer use them as I do all my own printing on my 7900 Epson.
Hope this helps and welcome back to Oregon!
Posted by David Bostock on December 5, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Mark for what it's worth, I've used Udevelop and Digicraft before and have been very, very pleased with their work.
Mark, if you're set on face mounting, I highly recommend you use a lab will do the printing and facemounting for you. Facemounting is a challenging process, and doesn't have a 100% success rate, but if you order the complete piece from one company, they are on the hook for producing a finished piece, so if they screw up the facemounting they have to make a new print for you at their own cost (not yours).
I don't really like the look (mostly because of the glare), but if I did, I would use WCI, even though it's not in the PNW.
Thanks very much Floris. Very good advice. And yes, the face mounting is always the issue. Everything else is a piece of cake compared. I have some great companies that do astounding face mounts, but they always charge too much and I will not deal with absorbing the shipping costs...
I have been using the Flex to acrylic and Dibond for about 6 years now and am totally sold on it as the very best way for myself to convey color landscape to the public. Maybe in the future I'll just do it all myself w my own company...
BTW everyone who has pitched in so far, I got a referral from Digicraft to another company in PDX that so far looks like they can do the printing, face mounting, back mounting, back aluminum inset framing, quality control, crating and shipping! Now that is what I'm talking about! Also at very competitive prices and fine art standards. If this happens, I will seriously promote them!
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5 repliesI am looking at the possibility of moving back to Oregon but will need a good lab with decent prices to do my FujiFLEX prints on a Lightjet, Lambda or Chromira. I also need them to be face mounted to Acrylic and back mounted to Dibond with little to no contaminations.
I need my main lab to be in the state I live, and preferably in the Portland area so I can go down and sign all my work without excess shipping costs and time.
Any and all recommendations are very much appreciated.
Thank you.
May I suggest you look at http://www.udevelop.com . Their digital services are called Digicraft. They offer Chromira for printing and it appears they do offer DiBond for back mounting. Their website does appear to offer face mount to Acrylic. Of course a quick phone call will answer that. I have used them in the past for Chromira prints and was very satisfied. I no longer use them as I do all my own printing on my 7900 Epson.
Hope this helps and welcome back to Oregon!
I don't really like the look (mostly because of the glare), but if I did, I would use WCI, even though it's not in the PNW.
I have been using the Flex to acrylic and Dibond for about 6 years now and am totally sold on it as the very best way for myself to convey color landscape to the public. Maybe in the future I'll just do it all myself w my own company...
BTW everyone who has pitched in so far, I got a referral from Digicraft to another company in PDX that so far looks like they can do the printing, face mounting, back mounting, back aluminum inset framing, quality control, crating and shipping! Now that is what I'm talking about! Also at very competitive prices and fine art standards. If this happens, I will seriously promote them!
Thanks everyone for the help.