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Double check with other printers and your own experience.

Ask your printing company how large a print you can get with your largest file size.

Hire a photographer/scanner, or, if you are confident with your camera and software, use a good digital camera that can provide a huge and sharp photo.

Do add your tips in the comments! Photography But I have learned a lot when I did my own prints and I have since used various printers for prints of my own work, seen prints from fellow artists and spoken to many artists about this. The fact that there are only so many of it out there makes the print more valuable and so limited editions are usually more expensive. Each print will be numbered like this 1/20, 2/20, etc and once they are all sold, that's it.

A limited edition of 20 means that there will only ever be 20 prints made. Limited and Open Editionsĭo you want to offer high end limited editions or affordable unlimited editions?Ī limited edition is simply a print from an original art work that will only be printed so many times. So whatever you decide, perhaps check with your gallery, clients, and think about who you want to sell to. But others feel the opposite and feel proud that the art work they own is popular but only they own the original. Few owners of high end art will want to know that lots of cheap prints are going round. They figure, and they might have a point, that it devalues the original.

Some artists (or galleries!) do not want to go down the print route. Is Your Gallery Happy With You Selling Prints? There are high-end fine art printing companies that do amazing bespoke work. There are cheap and cheerful print-as-you-go companies that produce very affordable prints, often of 'good enough' quality. Use Print-As-You-Go Companiesīut besides doing it yourself there are lots of options for artists that want to sell prints of their work.

But the amount of work involved took me away from my easel and in the end it just wasn't worth it. Not that my prints were no good, in fact I was quite pleased with them. I now leave any fine art printing to professional companies. Once I even invested in a fantastic printer, a library of books on the subject and started selling my own fine art prints. I have toyed with the idea of offering prints from my artworks on and off over the years. But once you decided to go for it, an avalanche of options appear and you might well give up before you got started. Creating prints from your art work is a great way to open up your sales.