Metro Imaging have been the leaders in professional photo printing & art printing for nearly forty years. We believe we are uniquely equipped to exceed your expectations, both technically and with our photographic printing services available.

Whether you’d like to work with us online or in our London studio, we are confident we have a service to meet your individual needs.

We only use professional photographic papers supplied by Fuji and Kodak, ranging from the classic C-Type semi-matt or gloss to a pure-matt velvet or metallic finish.

We are able to produce the largest and best professional C-Type prints in the UK, as our prints can go up to 120 x 72 inches, providing a huge choice when it comes to producing prints.

I've worked with Metro for over twenty years - retouching and printing for exhibitions, both in UK and internationally. The team have always been great in producing my work to a high level. I work closely with Manish, who retouches and prints all my work beautifully. We have developed a good working relationship, also working closely with Metro's other fantastic printers Sean and Jason. We often work to tight deadlines to meet shipping dates. Metro have always accommodated this.
— Sarah Jones, Artist

Types of photographic and fine art printing

>C Type Professional Photo Printing

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.

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>Fine Art Giclée Printing

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.

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>Black & White Printing

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.

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>Duratran Printing

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.

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>Direct to Media Printing

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.

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>Vinyl Printing

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.

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