Our Digital Presses

We have five Epson printers which can print up to 64" wide by any length.

The 11880 is a 64" wide printer from Epson
To quote Epson
"At Epson, we never forget our heritage. We never forget the hundreds of Creative Professionals who helped guide our engineering development to become what is today. And after a decade has past, we are still fascinated by what is possible.

There is a single word used among the Stylus Pro engineering teams within Epson - Monozukuri (mono-zu-kuri). When translated, it represents the human involvement required to develop the world's most difficult technologies - and succeeding. If you want to learn more about the amazing technology behind the 11880 please visit Epson HERE. Otherwise take OUR word for it, this is an awesome printer and in our opinion far superior to the latest Canon and Hewlett Packard offerings. We are not interested in speed or gimmicks just print quality for artists!

The 9800 is a 44" wide printer from Epson inspired by past-generation of photographic printing technology, the latest 44-inch Epson Stylus Pro 9800 professional wide-format printers incorporate forward-thinking designs with a breakthrough new 8-color ink technology, resulting in a final print of uncompromising quality.

Epson UltraChrome K3™ ink technology represents a defining moment in the history of ink jet printing. Based on our newest-generation of pigment ink, Epson UltraChrome K3 ink incorporates eight new color pigments, including a new three-level black technology, dramatically raising the bar for professional color and black and white prints.

The 9600 is a 44" wide printer from Epson and has a extraordinarily wide color gamut and is excellent for photographic and fine detail work. We use an advanced RIP which further increases the color gamut and we have color profiles for most paper and canvas we use.  The 9600 can print excellent monochrome and toned monochrome images.

For scanning photographs and transparencies it's hard to beat our IMACON

At one time we had five IRIS 3047 printers, an original value of over half a million dollars, but to be honest we bought the first one for list price ($125,000) and the remaining ones we purchased used for a lot less. Our original and much loved printer "Iris" is still on display in the studio, as are a lot of example prints made on this amazing machine. 

The legendary IRIS 3047 ink jet printers are no longer manufactured and I think we were one of the last fine art print studios to keep ours running. It was the only ink jet printer that could produces a variable droplet size of up to 32 different variations, and with a droplet size of 5 microns. While it was more difficult and more expensive to set up than other printers it had some advantages over more modern printers.

The printer uses piezoelectric crystal technology to produce four million ink droplets per second. The droplets are less than the size of a human blood corpuscle. This results in beautiful detail and a subtle color range. One of the main advantages of the IRIS was that is could print on practically anything including paper, canvas, cotton, silk, leather, wood veneer and many other substrates. One of the disadvantages was that the color gamut was pretty narrow and we had to work very hard and produce many proofs to get good results. Color management was seriously lacking!

But needs spur invention and we have very successfully printed on a wide range of curious materials/substrates using our Epson printers including hand made paper and silks.

We retired our Epson 9500 in 2007.
It did work very well on papers and canvas. It was also able to print on certain other substrates such as cotton and silk. The color range is excellent and the pigment inks were extremely durable and long lasting (100 years plus) and waterproof. The 9500 could not print monochrome prints because of metamerism and we did not print on glossy material because of quality issues.