Redbubble posters11/10/2023 ![]() ![]() But as far as getting a great looking photo print made, they are a very good deal. You can't really do high res color printing on cotton paper unless you use some kind of inkjet printer. It's a photographic print though, so it has that plastic type feeling that color photo paper has. I'm a photographer and used to get everything through them, and was always very happy with the print quality. Which is one of the best color photographic papers available, and has "archive" in the name because it meets photographic archival standards (has to last something like 100 years without degrading, I believe). Unless they have changed recently, Shutterfly uses a Fuji Frontier machine that prints to Fuji Crystal Archive paper. There are some baryta based fine art papers that have a semigloss surface though but those are more specialty and targeted more toward the photographic print world. Now, fine art paper prints are just about always going to be a matte surface, I'm not sure if that's what you meant when you said cardstock like or if it was just the heaviness of the paper. They probably use inkjet for large printing which most do nowadays. Of course the quality and longevity has improved. ![]() The same old fashion chemical kind that we used to take our film or files to the drugstore to get printed. Shutterfly probably uses photographic printing processes for their small prints at least the luster and glossy surfaces probably matte too. Someone mentioned printful, but be aware that they use enhanced matte paper for their printing too rather than fine art paper. I haven't ordered prints from RB so I don't have experience in their stock but the cotton prints from fineartamerica and society6 that I've ordered were nice and heavy. Cotton papers are most often in the 300 gsm range and definitely feel heavier. One example of that would be epson enhanced matte which is a 192 gsm weight paper which would look and feel like a card stock surface. Redbubble claims that they do their art prints on lightly textured cotton paper which should be heavier weight than something like archival matte paper (which is an option at ). Worth checking out, as far as I understand it they have some of the best quality prints out there, though I never got a single complaint whilenusinh Printful so they're great too (well I had one because the package was dented and damaged, but that was the shipping company's fault). ![]() Hopefully they'll figure out a way to speed up the process, I remember when I had my Etsy shop I could get my money within a day (though it took a few sales to become "trusted" enough for that). I just requested my first transfer a few weeks ago and it took close to two weeks to receive it (they say it should take 7-10 days). It can also take a good while to get your money. That said, they are fairly new, which means there's a few downsides to it.įor one thing, you need to apply to open a shop with them, though judging by some of the work I've seen I don't think it's a particularly selective process lolĪnother thing is that you can only request a transfer on your own after you hit $100, if you want to withdraw less than that you'll have to email them and ask them to do it for you. I used to use Printful when I had my Etsy shop, but since switching to my own website I went with INPRNT since I kept seeing tons of artists using it. Just because no one else has mentioned it yet, INPRNT makes museum quality prints (framed and unframed) as well as canvases, acrylic blocks, and cards (think a greeting card with your art on it). also, the blacks had all kinds of smudges and marks. The redbubble print was just printed on some flimsy, crappy paper that came super bent and because it's not a true print you'll never get those creases out of it. until I can get better recommendations, I'll stick with shutterfly. anyways, the shutterfly prints were suprisingly far superior and enable you to order matte or glossy. I've ordered my work on shutterfly prints and easycanvasprints (which I will also no longer user, though their canvas stuff isn't terrible - can go into detail if you want). I am disabling all current merch (I still have a shirt coming because I thought one of my projects looked cool on it and again wanted to see it - but my father ordered a shirt with my work on it years ago and I wasn't impressed with the print so my expectations are low - a shirt is one thing, though. ![]() They're quite pricey at around $17 a print so I expected decent quality. I ordered a print to check the quality since I was listing my stuff there obviously with the hopes that others could order and appreciate it also. I've spent a decent amount of time getting my twitch, linktree, instagram, fb all aligned and listing my redbubble merch (only prints because i don't want my work on most of the stuff there, i.e. ![]()
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