We produce archival rated pigment ink prints on watercolour paper, cotton rag papers and canvas media

Code Ice print production is a fully ICC colour managed workflow process. We can print your files either as custom exhibition prints or a direct production print where output is "as is".

A good file for this process would be:

• RGB tiff format
• Embedded colour space: Adobe RGB 1998
• No layers
• 240ppi
• Sized to required output dimensions
  

Other acceptable file formats being PSD, PDF, JPEG
Layers should be flattened and 16 / 8bit RGB files should be supplied with an embedded colour space as above. Do not supply CMYK files. A 16-bit workflow is maintained where possible.

We are user friendly! If in doubt please just send an email and we will do our best to assist.

Direct production printing: we print "as is"

Just provide us with your prepared files either on disk or via our file upload system.

Your file will be printed as supplied, which means that it must be correctly sized in a suitable image editing program such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. Adjust your file to the required print dimensions.

We recommend that you take care to supply files suitable for high quality print production and that your preparation work is done on a correctly calibrated monitor screen.

Reduce your file size

Large tiff files can be reduced using the following lossless compression method.

• Open your file in Photoshop or similar editing software
• Menu: File | Save As
• Select Tiff file format
• A dialogue box similar to the one shown here should appear
• Select the options shown here - i.e. Compression, LZW and Byte order, IBM PC.

LZW lossless compression is a well established, but nowadays little used, method for reducing file sizes by up to 70% and maintaining file quality.

An uncompressed 510Mb (17008px X 10488px) file can be reduced to 71Mb by this method.

It is far superior to the commonly used JPEG format which is a lossy compression process and often produces inferior print results.

Is your camera file large enough for a particular print size?

These are generalised figures as actual pixel dimensions vary from camera to camera

Modern fine art inkjet printing technology is not constrained by the old 300dpi rule which relates to traditional book and magazine print presses involving a matrix of ink dots with spaces between the dots.

Pixel dimensions for an image are the most important aspect, not a figure for DPI which merely relates to a particular output size.

We recommend that you take care to supply files suitable for high quality print production and that your preparation work is done on a correctly calibrated monitor screen.