christography

It is so surprising to hear of a company that claims to do fine art prints in a factory. Yeah, right. Factory.

In looking for my new location in the last 4 years, one of the thing that got to me was the fact that all factories are not great for print production. There are things like fumes from car-repairs shops, food, glue, even from the dyes found in such places.Yeah, claims to make fine art prints. Right.

Did they even think about the climate controls? Or the insect controls? Sunlight control? Any of those? I guess not, and I would shudder to think about their handling controls! *shivers*

Gosh. One of my really good friend laughed at the claims since it was so obvious that it was all to make the company sound larger than it really is. It is, after all, just a distributor of machines, papers and inks. Not to mention that she was witness to prints being mis-handled when they came out of the printer. Gosh.

I didn’t spend almost 20 years of my life to become who I am without conscious, thoughtful hard work and long, expensive experiments to ensure that the printing medias work the best that they can.These new comers are only in for the short-ride. I’m too tired to continue educating people on learning how to distinguish between quality and bad work. I only laugh these days, life’s too short.

Good luck to the artists that go to them, since problems with the prints don’t even come up till several years later. Much like a badly developed black and white photographs; chemical spots don’t always come up that quickly.