Our Paper Profiles

Metro Imaging has the best colour management service that comes with running a long-standing professional lab. The best way to test for colour is to print one of your images, around 10×12 inches and compare it to your screen, and in the lighting environment that it will be displayed in.

Bespoke Service users do not need to worry about paper profiles. In the case of Self-Service, users may use the profiles for soft proofing, but these will be applied by Metro Imaging to the file prior to printing.

We recommend submitting your files to us in Adobe RGB (1998) as we will profile them before they go to print, however, if you are confident in profiling, we have most of our c-type paper profiles available for download down below (to do this, go to Edit > Convert to Profile and from the drop-down box select Adobe RGB (1998)).

Prints under 40 x 30 inches	Poli C Type Prints
C-Type Matt	Poli Matt
C-Type Gloss	Poli Gloss
C-Type Velvet Pure Matt	Lambda Fuji Velvet
Giclee Fine Art	Use Adobe RGB 98
C-Type Metallic	Poli Metallic
Prints over 40 x 30 inches	Lambda C Types / B&W prints
Giclee Fine Art	Use Adobe RGB 98
C-Type Matt / B&W prints	Lambda Matt
C-Type Gloss	Lambda Gloss

We offer the following types of printing

Partial photo of a face covered in hundres and thousands printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper which is available in both gloss and a semi matt finish.

C Type Professional Photo Printing

We have been printing the highest quality C-Type prints for decades and digital C-Types produced on our Lambda 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.

Printing linking you through to our giclee printing service.

Fine Art Giclée Printing

We have Hahnemuhle and Canson Giclée Certified Studio staus and with over 30 years experience in photographic printing we use the most advanced inkjet technologies. Giclée is a gallery-quality inkjet print onto fine art watercolour paper. This is most suitable for art illustrations, but can also be used for colour and B&W photographs.

This a picture take of a very large black and white ilford fibre based print of two people.

Black & White Printing

We have worked in collaboration with Harman Technology to develop genuine B&W silver gelatin Fibre-Based and Resin-Coated photographic prints from digital files. The Resin-Coated is suitable for most types of B&W printing, and Fibre-Based is ideal for exhibition quality.

Metro called it Direct to Media. Essentially this is a UV printing machine that can produce very large, up to 3m x 2m prints on any flat material less than 10cm thick. So we can print on wood, metal, slate and pretty much anything you can think of.

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.

This is a print on adhesive vinyl. The vinyl is on a roll and 1.2m wide, but it can printed in multiple pieces in order to cover a wall.

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.