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I have a lovely photo printer (Canon Pixma E3170) which is definitely not a high-end printer at all, but as I mostly just wanted it for printing monochrome transparencies with the occasional A4 colour print on glossy paper to give to friends, it's fine for that. When I had good prints made for a gallery exhibition, I used a local print shop that did art prints. It cost me around €20 per A2-ish print which was a whole lot less than I was expecting, and the print shop ate the cost of test prints for colour matching. Most of my printing recently has been making cyanotype prints, which is super fun and makes a unique thing that you can give to people. I did quite a bit of portrait shooting last year, and the models really loved getting a cyanotype of one of the shots from the shoot. My post on making cyanotype sensitiser is on my site here. I also made a video explaining how to make the prints, which you can see here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8fFb7Rxz88
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Blackhawk posted:Yeah I've had some prints done by print shops too, definitely the best option I think if you're not printing a lot and don't want to spend a bunch of time and money fiddling around with things. You can use colour images as a starting point for cyanotypes, but obviously it's a monochrome process, so you'll have to convert the image to B&W before you print your negative. The image in the video originaly started as a colour photo,  IMG_9948-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Cyanotype006.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr Here are some others that came out ok  Cyanotype004.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Cyanotype003.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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280gsm or above are common weights for watercolour paper. I use 340gsm paper for cyanotypes and it's basically thin cardboard.
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