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Our Printing Tools and services
Thurston Print Lab creates Fine Art prints on the highest quality materials at the lowest prices using state-of-the-art Color Management to ensure color fidelity, accuracy, and consistency.
We specialize in custom printing of photographer’s portfolios, from archival fine art exhibition prints, to custom book publishing.
Wide Format Printer
Canon Pro-Series
Canon’s LUCIA PRO 11-color pigment ink set with a Chroma Optimizer, enables an expanded color gamut achieving stunning color reproduction and image clarity.
COLOR MANAGED WORKFLOW

Custom Printer Profiles
What sets us apart is we create Custom ICC Printer Profiles for all our papers insuring the most accurate and consistent color prints possible and make the acessible to you to allow you to Soft Proof your images before you place your print orders.
Exhibition Prints

Fine Art Media
Our Fine Art Media Prints for Exhibitions and Reviews, use 100% Cotton Rag Archivable or Baryta media and are Optical Brightener Agent free and pH balanced for long lasting prints of exceptional quality.
Production Prints

Photograde Media
High quality economically priced non-archivable Photograde media for Production quantities, Student project work, proof prints, visualizing of sequences or narrative projects, and confirming layouts and designs.
Client Support

online tools
Online Chat, Zoom Screen Sharing Sessions, Display Calibration Hardware and Software, Paper Selection and Custom Printer Profiling and Setup, we offer complete Color Management Solutions, Support, and Training for our Clients.
Reprographic Services

CAD/CAM Drawings
Reprographic Printing of affordable CAD/CAM Arch Sheets either Loose or Bound, Bond or Transparent “Vellum” Bond for Architects, Designers and Engineers.
Delivered Locally Only
What's new at Thurston Print Lab
Canson-Infinity Loves our print lab
Thurston Print Lab is proud to become one of a worldwide network of 150 Canson Certified Print Labs, and the only Canson Infinity Certified Print Lab in San Diego.
This program brings together a network of the best printing laboratories from around the world, that meet the rigorous technical criteria established by the Canson Infinity technical team and ensures the highest-quality standard of work.
Becoming a Canson Infinity Certified Print Lab assures you that we use the finest quality materials from Canson and use the best Color Management practices to produce consistent high quality prints on their Media, and that we have met their stringent Print Audit criteria and Inspection Process.
Print Media Prices
Our Print Pricing is very simple, the first 11 Prints, either Individual images OR Duplicate images are all the SAME PRICE.
Get a 20% Discount when your order total combined is of 12 or more prints of any size.
Unlike our competitors, we do not charge a high price forthe First print as a setup charge and only discount copies of that Print alone.
Start Printing with us now to take advantage of these unbeatable prices
Print Media Types
We use the Industry’s finest Inkjet Photo Papers for Archival Pigment Prints.
All of our Fine Art Media are either 100% Cotton Rag, Sustainable Fibers/Cotton Rag Blend or Baryta based,
and Optical Brightener Agent (OBA) Free, pH Balanced, and Archivable for the Finest Quality Exhibition Prints.
Our Photograde Media are Low-Cost alternatives, and equivalent to higher priced Epson branded Papers.
We offer Smooth Matte, Textured Matte, Watercolor Matte, Lustre/Satin, and Glossy Finishes In Fine Art Papers and Bright Smooth Matte and Lustre/Satin Finishes In Photograde Papers.
Testimonials
What People Are Saying about us
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Answers to all your Questions about our Products and Services can be found here.
We offer Bordered and Borderless Photographic Prints in the following sizes:
8″ x 8″, 8.5″ x 8.5″, 8.5″ x 11″, 8″ x 12″, 10″x15″, 12″ x 12″, 11″ x 17″, 12″ x 18″, 13″ x 19″, 17″ x 17″, 17″ x 22″, 16″ x 24″, 24″ x 24″, 20″ x 30″, 24″ x 36″.
For Reprographic Services we offer standard 24″ x 36″ ARCH D Sheets
Contact Us for Custom Sizes
Fine Art Media
- Canson Baryta Prestige Glossy
- Canson Platine Fiber Rag Satin
- Canson Edition Etching Rag Textured Matte
- Ilford Cotton Smooth Rag Matte
- Hahnemühle Metallic Rag Glossy
- Hahnemühle William Turner Watercolor
Photograde Media
- Arista-II RC Lustre Paper
- Arista-II Double Weight Matte Paper
Reprographic Media
- HP Universal 20 lb. Bond Paper
Download our Custom Media Profiles
All Photographic Image Files submitted for Printing whether Color or Black & White/Grayscale images need to prepared as:
- Adobe98 RGB Colorspace
- 16-Bit TIFF File Format
- ZIP Compressed (Optional)
- Pixel dimensions of Print Size and Type
For Reprographic Images save the files from your CAD application as .PDF files for emailing them to us.
Visit our Image Preparations and File Naming Guidelines on our Products Info page.
You must view and edit your Image on a Properly Calibrated Monitor in order to get accurate Screen to Print Matching for Photographic Prints.
Without a Properly Calibrated Monitor, your Prints will appear too Dark because your Monitor is too Bright.
Visit our Monitor Calibration Tutorial in our
Tutorials for How-To Details.
Soft Proofing allows you to preview on a Calibrated Monitor what your Printed Output will look like using our Custom ICC Printer Profiles along with the Color Management features of your Photo editing software.
You can download our Printer Profiles, and review Soft Proofing in our Tutorials.
- Order Prints Online* Sign In to your Account, click on the Shop Menu and select your:
- Media Type
- Print Type
- Print Size
- Rendering Intent
- Upload your image(s) to print
- Click Add to Cart
- Choose your Delivery Method
- Pay for your Order
*Using Chrome Desktop Browser is recommended
We Accept Payments Online or In Person using Debit or Credit Cards.
Checks are not accepted
All Print Orders need to be paid for when Order Placed.
Once your paid order is received we will process it within a day or two for shipping.
- FREE SHIPPING with orders over $100
- USPS Retail Ground 5-7 Days $15.95
- USPS Priority Mail 2 Day $19.95
Contact Us for more shipping information.
We are open for business locally M-F, 9AM-5PM and are located in the Central San Diego Metro region.
With the Safe Business Reopening Guidelines we can now have face to face sessions here.
Use our Contact Us Page to schedule an appointment for an in-person meeting.
We offer a variety of ways to help you out from navigating our site to preparing your images for uploading:
- You can Chat/email with us online and the Chat Box should be in the lower right of your screen.
- You can use the Calendar on our Contact Us Page to schedule a screen sharing session for any aspect of using our site and/or editing and preparing your images for uploading and printing.