The Right Box for Your Art

March 12, 2023March 12, 2023

The Right Box for Your Art

So much more artwork is shipped today than before. And using the right box to protect an art print as well as elevate its value is incredibly important. Most of our customers do not bother to ship themselves and have their orders drop shipped through us. But occasionally a customer will want to ship their prints themselves. If so, they will have needed to develop some sort of shipping strategy.

March 5, 2023April 14, 2023

Canvas Prints: Advantages for Resale

As part of my next topic in a two-part series discussing canvas, prints, I want to bring to your attention some of the advantages canvas prints have for the person reselling their artwork as prints or even for the photographer.

February 26, 2023February 25, 2023

Packaging Prints – Part 1

A lot of our customers choose to ship their prints themselves, especially if they are taking advantage of built-in volume discounts on prints. It is not uncommon for them when they are first getting started to ask for advice or tips relating to best practices when packaging unframed prints.

January 28, 2023January 29, 2023

Cutting Your Prints

I recently discussed torn or deckled-edged prints. But people also ask how we cut and manage so many giclee prints. When we give them a behind-the-scenes look at our facility they are quite amazed at the organization and sorting of so many prints when we may have to produce so many prints each day on over 20 different giclee papers.

January 5, 2023March 20, 2023

Custom Printed T-Shirts Now Here

We are extremely happy to announce the introduction of apparel printing which is something FinerWorks customers have been requesting for a long time. We are starting off by offering custom-printed t-shirts of your artwork.

November 9, 2022November 9, 2022

Holiday Tips from FinerWorks

With the holidays fast upon us it is a good idea to consider some of the following tips when utilizing FinerWorks to print and fulfill your orders. This will not only improve things like production time but also make it less likely that problems will arise with an order getting to your customer on time.

October 23, 2022October 23, 2022

Share Your Idea for a Print on Demand Product

This past week was a whirlwind of activity. I had the privilege of spending several exciting days in the entertainment hub of the world, Las Vegas. I was not there to gamble and have fun, (okay, there was a little of that), but to attend the Printing United Expo of 2022, which is billed as “THE MOST DYNAMIC AND COMPREHENSIVE PRINTING EVENT IN THE WORLD”. In simpler terms, it is a trade show for printing companies, primarily for those utilizing wide-format technology such as we do to produce your art and photo prints.

July 7, 2022August 22, 2022

Decal Style Printing on Acrylic Glass

One of the neat features with printing on acrylic directly with the technology at FinerWorks is that there is a way to print in “decal mode”. Decal mode allows you to control what parts of the image are fully transparent and what is full color.

June 27, 2022August 22, 2022

New Elegance Velvet

We now offer Breathing Color’s Elegance Velvet paper. Our apologies since this was a long time coming and has been widely requested. With a 100+ year certified archival rating, the Elegance Velvet is best defined as a matte paper with a subtle texture and substantial weight to it.

June 18, 2022June 21, 2022

New Resin Ink Technology for Canvas Prints

At FinerWorks, we are always on the lookout for the latest in giclee printing technology and try to incorporate it within our product line as soon as possible. One of the newest and exciting updates is a new ink formulation which comes to us via Epson.