From the Lab

A peek behind the scenes at Qprints - lab life, updates, and tips from the team.

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Small orders for 8x10 and 11x14 prints ship in custom boxes that are slightly bigger than the print and are about 1/2 inch thick.

Lab Life

11x14 prints rolling off one of our machines. This shows them coming out of the dryer after going thru the main processor below with the developer, bleach-fix and stabilizer tanks.

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Lots of boxes ready for shipping out orders, these are custom made for us so they fit our prints perfectly - with room all around to protect them of course.

Shipping

Need stacks of prints? we have stacks of Fuji Crystal Archive paper ready to make them!

Lab Life

The fuji paper we use has a small amount of silver in it which can be recovered from the bleach-fix. We're slightly obsessed with it.

Lab Life

Prepping some prints for a customer that sells artwork on amazon. Prints go in a mailer with a special FBA label on it and then get boxed up and shipped to amazon.

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Short video on how to find the file dimensions in pixels on a PC, Mac and iPhone. File dimensions AKA resolution is an important part of printing images.

Tips and Tricks

We built a page on qprints.com where you can check your files for various different issues. It's not perfect but it can tell you if your files are in good shape or have some issues. Link below also has a great explanation of all the different file issues you could have.

Free Tool

Isn't she pretty? New machine arrival and install.

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When we're busy we can be really really busy. Boxed up prints in the foreground, fresh fuji paper in the background.

Shipping

Flashback to 1988. Here is a pic of our fearless leader adjusting the color via potentiometers on one of the first 1 hour photo processors available. Amazing how much things have changed.

Lab Life