What makes Pictopia archival photo prints so good?
Pictopia archival prints are true photographic prints made on Fuji Crystal Archive® paper. As silver halide photographs, these images yield an extraordinary color range as well as sharp detail in a predictable, repeatable, digitally controlled process. The digitized image is transferred to the paper via lasers in the LightJet printer, a color enlarger that uses extremely precise controls to ‘paint’ the image onto photographic paper, resulting in the highest quality conventional photographic print. These continuous tone photographs, made without dots, either ink jet or lithographic, render details and subtle graduations smoothly and naturally. The colors are extraordinarily deep and rich with a full range of detail that is sharp and clear, seen even in a large print under close inspection. Our LightJet prints are rated at up to 60 to 70 years of display life under standard, fully illuminated gallery light conditions. This color durability is more than double that of dye transfer and Ilf
Of course, the skill and artistry of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s professional photographers make the content of the photos so spectacular. Beyond that, Pictopia archival prints are true photographic prints made on Fuji Crystal Archive paper. As silver halide photographs, these images yield an extraordinary color range as well as sharp detail in a predictable, repeatable, digitally controlled process. Our state-of-the art digital enlarger exposes 180 million pixels onto the paper when making a 40″ x 50″ print. By comparison, digital cameras capture up to 1 to 6 million pixels. The digitized image is transferred to the paper via lasers in the LightJet printer, a color enlarger that uses extremely precise controls to ”paint” the image onto photographic paper, resulting in the highest quality conventional photographic print. These continuous tone photographs, made without dots, either ink jet or lithographic, render details and subtle graduations smoothly and naturally. The colors a
