Help with printing landscapes

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I have just come back from my holiday in SW Ireland and managed to get some great sunset landscapes which I have now edited and cropped. My lovely wife has even conceded that some can be framed and go on the wall. SO....how do I get them printed in the same ratio as my crop? They are not in any specific size, they are just long and narrow. Do I need to get them printed in their normal ratio and physically cut them down or can i get them printed exactly as the image shape I have created. This sounds so stupid, I am an experienced togger but I normally take portraits that are so easy to get printed in the right way. All help gratefully received.
 
I suspect you'll have to get your usual printer to print them closest to the ratio you've ended up with and either hide the excess in a mount or chop it off - if you can get them to do it it'll probably cost more for a bespoke print size than just letting them print blank space and cutting it yourself

Which is what I do :)

Dave
 
Try one vision they have done non standard for me in the past and just charged to the standard size up so to speak, good quality as well.
 
It depends of just what method (type of print) you with to have made ~ AFAIK and I stand to be corrected C type prints made on for example the Fuji Frontier are typically 'programmed' to make standard sized prints and where non standard ratios/crops are required there will be premium because of this prescriptive approach.

However, I have had Giclee prints made and the printers I used will print what you supply based on 300dpi resolution and exact size in millimetres of the printed area.............as part of the process you can specific a border (I chose 10mm as an aid to the mounting of them. FWIW I did not calculate the price per cm2 for the different sizes I ordered but some were slightly odd with non standard ratios (NB the printer was Oxford Giclee) and yes they are overall more expensive than C type prints but the richness of colours depending on the choice of papers is something you might want to investigate?

PS I just noticed you are in Weybridge..............waves from Send Marsh :)
 
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A lot of labs will do a custom size if you give them a phone.
Alternatively, you could do canvas or metal or other substrate prints that are less reliant on standard sizes.
Not sure on pricing but you could try fine art america who have just come over to europe, you can upload your own work on there and choose a variety of products, everything on there is custom sized anyway.
 
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