William Turner, 310gsm
This paper is simply exceptional for watercolours, drawings and other work and is our most popular choice. It has a beautiful textured surface and is a Natural white, with 100% rag content. With a mean pH value of 7, it has excellent archival qualities.
Photo Rag, 308gsm
A much whiter, smoother surface lends particularly well to black and white and colour photographs, and has a 100% rag content. We have also found that oils or acrylic work reproduces brilliantly on this paper if the original painting is on board or canvas, because rather than offering a texture to the paper, its smooth white surface shows the mark making of the original painting.
German Etching, 310gsm
Similar in tone to William Turner, it has a slightly smoother surface, is equally acid free and also mould made. Very suitable for a variety of print editions including fine detailed work, black and white photography.
Museum Etching, 350gsm
This paper offers the luxurious texture of a traditional etching board and a natural white point, an ideal medium for images with soft tints or fine grey nuances as well as more saturated reproduction prints. The extra heavy grammage also increases its appeal.
Sugar Cane, 300gsm
An exciting new inkjet paper with 75% of its raw material derived from “bagasse” pulp, a by-product of raw sugar production. The 25% cotton portion is made from recycled paper waste. Displaying the fine texture of a pastel paper Sugar Cane lends every image an artistic look and feel with sustainable approach.
Bamboo, 290gsm
The world’s first digital fine art inkjet paper made from bamboo fibres. Bamboo represents spirituality, naturalness and resource-saving paper production. Particularly suitable for warm-toned colour and monochrome prints, Bamboo really highlights the sensuality of images.
FineArt Baryta, 325gsm
This paper sets a benchmark for high colour depth, wide gamut and image clarity. This paper offers photographers a "wow" factor particularly to black and white prints with an extremely high dmax and the finest grey tones, utilising a bright white. Using barium sulphate in the premium inkjet coating ensures the typical gloss that makes this paper a genuine replacement for traditional Baryta papers from analogue laboratories.
Photo Rag Baryta, 315gsm
Photo Rag Baryta uses the best combination of a luxury cotton paper and a traditional baryta board to produce a exceptional print. The very fine surface texture with the baryta gloss gives life to Photo Giclée and is a welcome addition to the range offering similar qualities to FineArt Baryta yet with a more natural tone.
Canvas Artist, 340gsm
This is a matt artists' cotton canvas with a high quality texture with a natural white tone. It can also be stretched and then varnished after printing which is a popular choice for digital canvas prints. Its coating gives a very good water resistance and print reproduction fidelity.
We have chosen to use A3 size prints for our exhibition. We have sourced printing through a website called gicleeprinting.co.uk. They offer a very varied selection of fine art prints. We have chosen Photo Rag Baryta as we feel this is the best print for our photographs.
The costing for these prints is £10.13 per print. We need 60 prints bringing the total cost for our exhibition prints to £608
We have also decided to have 5x7 prints available for sale. The frames are sourced through Picture Bloc. We have found a very cheap printer for these prints enabling maximum profits. Individual 5x7 prints from DS Colour Labs are 16p on 150gsm photo paper. The total cost for these prints is £24 (160 prints at 16p)
This brings the total cost for printing to £632.
We are aiming to sell framed 5x7 prints for £40, the cost price of each unit is around £12. We are having 150 prints (15 per artist) which will return £6000. Once we take out the cost we will be left with £4200 profit on the print sales.
A rough total of our budget so far
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