Our Materials
Karl Monaghan’s Print Lab works with the very best fine art paper and cotton fibre to bring your photographic prints to life. Our Epson 9560 and Epson 9900 Giclee printers can produce large photographic prints including large canvas prints. Guaranteed for life, we exclusively use archival UltraChrome Pigment Dye Inks, ensuring the highest quality artist reproduction prints and photographic prints.
Canson® Infinity Platine Fibre Rag is a combination of the premium 100% cotton platinum paper with the latest microporous coating, making the traditional darkroom paper available for your digital printing. Setting the benchmark for digital darkroom printing paper, Canson® Infinity Platine Fibre Rag provides the aesthetic and feel of the original F-Type Baryta Fibre paper, achieving a pure white tone without using optical brighteners to optimise the longevity of your digitally produced photographic images. Platine Fibre Rag’s extremely high dMax and exceptional grey tones make it the product of choice for discerning black-and-white prints as well as performing well for full-colour photographic prints.
Canson Edition Etching Rag is a 100% Cotton Fine Art Paper with a smooth texture and is reminiscent of the original and genuine etching and printmaking papers. It’s one of the whitest fine art papers available with only a hint of texture. This museum-grade fine art paper provides deep blacks, excellent image sharpness, and optimum colour graduation with its unique grain making it ideal for printing detailed artwork, colour photographic prints and sharp black-and-white portraits.
Thanks to its special coating, Ilford Galerie Matt Cotton Medina boasts the most luxurious, velvety surface texture offering a beautiful natural, white-toned paper like the traditional artists’ paper of old. Free of optical brighteners, completely archival and consisting of a sturdier weight, this robust fine art paper is built for longevity, allowing you to enjoy your beloved photographic prints for longer.
Featuring the very latest High Dynamic Range (HDR) optically clear coating and coupled with recent advancements in inkjet receiving layer design, Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl Fine Art Paper produces photographic prints with superb clarity, high sharpness and excellent colour gamut. The high-density, resin coated heavyweight base and smooth pearl finish eliminate glare and fingerprints while the natural photographic white tint produces a finished print with the true look and feel of a photograph.
Due to its outstanding imaging performance, touch-dry finish from the printer and its pearl surface, this media is the choice for professionals.
Crafted exclusively from cotton fibres, the Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Sonora lends photographic print images a particularly intensive impression due to its lightly structured surface. The pleasant soft haptic and the natural white colouring of the paper correspond to traditional fine art print paper. The surface texture is wonderfully smooth and velvety while being acid and OBA free. It’s predestined to produce dramatic art prints, reproduction prints, artistic photographic prints, exhibition prints, poster prints, exclusive invitations, and interior decorations in colour or black-and-white.
Ilford Galerie Fine Art Canvas Galicia is a cotton/polyester blend designed to deliver the very best in professional photographic digital prints on canvas. It’s a robust and stretchable canvas with a high resistance to cracking and a superior framing performance. It incorporates an advanced inkjet receiving layer, providing excellent image sharpness and optimum colour graduation. We provide a full service in-house with our Custom Framing Bar able to assist you in finishing your canvas print with our range of canvas stretcher bars, including large canvas frames.