Large Photo Printing

For large photo printing, Metro are the service leaders when it comes to supersizing your images for exhibitions, museums or the home.

We recommend the following services:

– C Type: We are able to produce the largest and best professional C Type prints in the UK. Our prints can go up to 120 x 72 inches, giving you a huge choice when it comes to producing prints.

– Giclée: Is a great way to produce editions or reproductions of your paintings, illustrations or artworks. Sizes go up to 150cm x 210cm

– Direct to Media: We can print your image directly to a flat substrate of your choice, up to four inches thick and 8 x 10 ft as one full piece. Direct to media can be highly durable compared to traditional prints mounted to a substrate, with the added bonus of being water resistant.

– Vinyl: This has a high quality Giclée finish as well as its ease of application to wall or mounting material due to it’s self-adhesive properties. Perfect when curating and displaying work in large spaces or areas where traditional framing and mounting isn’t suitable. Sizes up to 1.5 x 1m / 60″x 40″

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At Vogue and National Portrait Gallery we really can say, without any question how much we appreciated all the work Metro put in.

— Robin Muir, Vogue 100

C Type Professional Photo Printing

Digital C-Type prints produced on our Lambda or Lightjet printers have the archival and tonal benefits of traditional photographic papers, with the advantages of digital photo printing. C-Types are a conventional photographic print from a digital file, and as such is the most suitable option when printing a colour photograph.

Fine Art Giclée Printing

Our Giclée print studio with over 30 years experience in traditional photographic printing, and using the most advanced inkjet technologies. Giclée is a gallery-quality inkjet print onto fine art watercolour papers. This is most suitable for art illustrations, but can also be used for colour and B&W photographs.

Black & White Printing

After working in collaboration with Harman Technology to develop silver gelatin fibre-based and resin-coated photographic prints from digital files, Metro is the only lab in the UK to produce real B&W prints from digital files without a colour cast. The resin-coated is suitable for most types of B&W printing, and Fibre-based is ideal for gallery use.

Duratran Printing

Our Superwide Lightjet XL500 printer can produce mural size photographic Duratrans at a quality level unmatched by anything else out there. Duratrans have to be lit from behind, so need to be mounted in a rear lit display, or we can produce led lightboxes, which are conventional photo frames containing the Duratran and led panel.

Direct to Media Printing

Direct to media printing is exactly that; we print your image directly to a substrate of your choice. Be it paper, card, aluminium, Perspex, canvas, wood, slate... Our Jetrix UV inkjet flatbed printer can print on any flat surface up to 3m x 2m, less than 10cm thick. To ensure your material is suitable, we can print test prints around A4 in size.

Vinyl Printing

Vinyl Phototex is chosen for its high-quality Giclée finish as well as its ease of application to wall or mounting material due to its self-adhesive properties. We can print on vinyl using our direct to media printer, in strips of 1.5m x 3m and these can be applied to the wall in the fashion of wallpaper to cover a complete wall or interior.