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The Phoblographer’s 2018 Guide to Making Prints for Your Loved Ones

Chris Gampat
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11/20/2018
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Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Duggal Sponsored Holiday print gift guide

Every photographer should give the gift of their work to their dearest, and what better way to do that than with a printed piece of art?

The holidays are coming up soon, and if you’re in the spirit, consider the gift of your own artwork to clients, loved ones, friends, etc. What you create is special: you put effort into it, you spend hours in post-production or with subjects, and you refine your craft and creative vision until you feel like it’s just right. Your art should be on someone’s wall, on their coffee table, in their cubicle, etc. Want to get started? Let’s take a look at some of our favorite options for 2018.

Editor’s Note: This year’s Photo Print Gift Guide is sponsored by ShopDuggal.com. All the quality of the famous Duggal print house–but brought down to consumer prices.

Shop Duggal Vibrachrome Metal Print

Create your own custom fine art-worthy, vibrant yet durable print on metal. For a beautifully finished piece of art that will stand the test of time. These metal prints are sought after for high profile museum and gallery exhibitions internationally have even traveled to space as the first permanent photography exhibition aboard the International Space Station. All of our Vibrachome Metal Prints have rounded corners for safety, are backed with a low profile track brace and shipped with all necessary hardware for easy hanging.

Prices Starting From: $34.00

Shop Duggal Soft Cover Photo Books

ShopDuggal.com offers a diverse range of premium book styles that can be customized for all types of projects. With the high quality paper and special options such as lamination and foil, you can bring your photo book to a whole new level. The Photo Books are printed on a HP Indigo Press which offers high definition printing, seven-color capability and bonus ‘karma points’ because of reduced environmental impact due to it’s ability to offset carbon emissions. All of this allows us to provide you a superior product with a fast turnaround. The softcover photo book options are perfect bound and printed in Brooklyn, New York.

Prices Starting From: $27.00

Shop Duggal Photographic High Definition C-Prints

The HD C-Prints® are three times the resolution of industry standard – See the difference you’ve been missing®

Produced on true archival photographic papers, Shop Duggal’s stunningly vivid HD C-Prints® feature an astounding 6,100 apparent DPI. The high-end processor guarantees the complete transfer of photographic information from file to paper while the laser alignment system and optical transfer ensure the maximum quality of each pixel needed to produce the superior prints.

Prices Starting From: $9.82

Epson Legacy Paper

Some of my favorite paper ever made is Epson’s Legacy Paper. Epson specially created this paper for photographers to print, well, their legacy! It’s designed for fine art sales and as a result, it is their highest end paper. It comes in varieties of matte and glossy with all the flavors in between.

So what makes it so expensive? Lots of it is made in Europe in some of the oldest paper making factories in the world. The patterns and threads are randomized for much of the paper and you can tell often in the feel of some of the paper and in the way that your image is bound to be rendered.

Buy Now: Amazon

Canon ProGraf 1000

Perhaps my favorite printer for most of the work that we do here at the Phoblographer, the Canon ProGraf 1000 is a beast of a machine. It is heavy, always connected to WiFi, will randomly shake the ink to ensure that it doesn’t blot up or dry, and will accept a number of types of paper. It’s also pretty simple to use once it is connected to your home’s or office’s WiFi.

Trust me when I say that this is THE PRINTER that is going to get you addicted to printing.

Buy Now: Amazon

Red River Palo Duro Etching

Some of the most unique paper that I’ve tested recently is Red River’s Palo Duro Etching paper. It’s a matte paper designed to render the images you print to look like something that would have been made in the darkroom. To that end, if you’re one of those folks who loves making their images look like film as much as possible, then consider making those images completely manifest with a print that will embrace that look.

Buy Now: Red River

Blurb Premium Photo Magazine

Recently, we released our own zine using Blurb’s Premium Photo magazine services. Consumers can utilize Blurb’s fantastic editing software when putting together their zine. Then they can render a PDF, send it off to Blurb, and get it printed. The quality of the paper is fantastic with being a balance of just enough sheen to make images pop but not too much that it makes reflections on the paper to make it hard to read at times. You can pick up a zine and read it anywhere–which is perfect for that coffee table book that you’re going to gift someone.

Oh yeah, maybe we should mention that the quality is more along the lines of a coffee table book than a zine. It’s pretty high end.

Buy Now: Blurb (also check out Emulsion!)

 

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Chris Gampat

Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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    Any equivalent of Shop Duggal in Europe to advise?

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