Wet lab photo printing is what you think of traditional photo printing - darkrooms and chemical baths on silver halide paper. While this process works, it harms the environment and produces poorer results than new dry lab photo printing that uses advanced printers with gel inks and dye sublimation. Artisan HD only uses dry lab photo printing technology because it's better for the environment and produces better results.
The best ink to use for watercolor prints is UV gel inks because they have several advantages:
We suggest everyone look at the most common custom print recipes that customers prefer. Even if you decide to get a completely custom art print, you can see what's popular for most applications to get ideas or consider different options as you're shopping. Preset recipes that include the size, medium, and printing techniques.
Using the sharpening feature is a default setting on the LightJet printer and how we run it, however we can turn off the setting upon request.
No, we don't offer LightJet prints because they use harmful chemicals (to us and the environment) and we use other printing techniques like dye sublimation, gel-inks, thermal printing, and other better techniques.