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Overview
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Peak
have been producing top quality photographic prints for photographers
for the past 22 years. We have skilled staff and the finest equipment
to help achieve the very best results. Now, using the latest photo-digital
printers from Fuji and Durst we can produce professional colour
prints faster, at cost effective prices.
Negatives
and transparencies are digitally scanned and printed on to continuous
tone photographic paper using RGB lasers. This produces a higher
quality print fully optimised for colour and density. Contrast
is better controlled with greater detail in the shadow and highlight
areas, especially important when printing from transparencies.
Check it out - you'll see the difference!
We can work from any size original from 35mm to 5x4, negative
or transparency, in colour or black & white. Prints can be
produced on gloss or satin matt surface paper.
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| Photographic
reprints from negatives |
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We
offer three different printing services from negatives. Standard
Fixed Format prints, Selective Fixed Format prints and our premier
service, Custom Made prints.
Depending
on the required service all negatives entering the laboratory are
digitally scanned using Fuji or Imacon high-resolution scanners.
The print information is then passed over our network to either
Fuji or Durst Photo-digital printers. Unlike mail order d&p
services and high street minilabs each print is individually assessed,
graded and reprinted if necessary.
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Photographic
reprints from transparencies
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Colour
prints from transparencies have up until recently been produced
in one of two ways. The traditional way is to make a special negative
(termed an internegative) from the transparency and then print the
internegative on conventional colour paper. The second method is
to produce colour prints direct from transparencies using special
paper and the R3 process. The R3 process eliminated the need for
an internegative to be made.
There were pros and cons using either of these techniques. Internegatives
handled flesh tones well and offered better control over contrast.
The down side was the extra time incurred and cost. R3 reversal
prints were inexpensive and produce results quicker, however the
process did not handle high contract subjects well.
Our
photo-digital printers overcome all of the problems illustrated above
and most prints up to 40" x 30" are now made using our digital
printers. In this process
your transparency is scanned at high resolution and then written to
conventional colour paper using RGB lasers. The results are superb.
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Cropping
Guidelines
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Most
of our customers appreciate that a rectangular print ordered from
a square original will produce a print with either borders or severe
cropping of the image. It is important to remember however that
even rectangular negatives, specifically 35mm will produce prints
with substantial cropping when printed to some industry standard
sizes such as 5x4 and 10x8. Please bear this in mind when ordering.
The following guide will be of help.
If
you require us to produce a print with cropping, please indicate
which part of the image is to be cropped.
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| Full
Image Area |
Minor
Cropping |
Severe
Cropping |
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x 4 |
5
x 3½ |
8
x 6 |
| 7½
x 5 |
7
x 5 |
10
x 8 |
| 9
x 6 |
10
x 7 |
12
x 10 |
| 12x
8 |
A4 |
15
x 12 |
| 15
x 10 |
A3 |
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| 18
x 12 |
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| Full
Image Area |
Minor
Cropping |
| 5
x 3½ |
5
x 4 |
| 8
x 6 |
7
x 5 |
| 10
x 7 |
10
x 8 |
| A4 |
12
x 10 |
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15
x 12 |
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| Full
Image Area |
Minor
Cropping |
| 5
x 5 |
8
x 6 |
| 8
x 8 |
12
x 10 |
| 10
x 10 |
15
x 12 |
| 12
x 12 |
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| Full
Image Area |
Minor
Cropping |
| 6
x 5 |
5
x 4 |
| 12
x 10 |
7
x 5 |
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8
x 6 |
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10
x 8 |
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| Full
Image Area |
Minor
Cropping |
| 5
x 4 |
7
x 5 |
| 6.25
x 5 |
12
x 10 |
| 10
x 8 |
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| 15
x 12 |
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