Thurston Print Lab

Fine Art Inkjet Printing for Photographers

John Sewell-Thurston

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This is a Big Deal – Really Big Prints Deal

This is a Big Deal

This is a Big Deal – Really Big Prints Deal. We can now print really big prints for you, on Arches 88 Matte Rag and Canson Platine Fiber Rag, two of our best Fine Art Papers.

Really Big Prints Deal

You can now order Really Big Prints up to 36″ wide in popular Large Format sizes of 30″ x 40″ and 36″ x 48″, and more, on two of our best Fine Art Papers, and at competitive prices that can’t be beat anywhere on the web, or in San Diego where we are based.

Really Big Deal Savings on Really Big Prints

Large Format Print Prices

Really Big Savings

As you can see we offer Really Big Savings on Really Big Prints at up to 50% savings over the local competition in San Diego.
Thurston Print Lab is a Canson Certified Print Lab and therefore we offer unrivaled quality and accuracy in our Fine Art Prints, and that is something the competition in San Diego simply can’t matcha any price.

Unlike our competitors we also offer a 20% discount on your order of 12 or more prints of any size, not just reprints of a single image. That pricing makes no sense for someone printing a portfolio of their body of work as they typically only need one copy of many prints, not multiple copies of single image, and thats where you save Big with ordering your prints from us.

Really Big Prints on our Best Fine Art Papers

Arches 88 Matte Rag is a Bright White 100% Cotton Rag Archival paper with no Optical Brightener Agents (OBAs) and offers an ultra-smooth surface finish with a soft and supple feel to the touch.

This paper has an exceptionally large Dynamic Range of tones from the brightest Highlights to deep Shadow Details.

Canson Platine Fiber Rag is 100% Cotton Rag Archival Paper is Optical Brightener Agent (OBAs) Free and has a Lustre finish that has the lightly textured look and feel of traditional darkroom and Premium Platinum printing paper.

This Paper excels at both Color or Black and White imagery.

Order Your Really Big Deal Prints Now!

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How to Calibrate your Monitor to best match your Prints

How to Calibrate your Monitor is the most important part of setting up a Color Managed Workflow for Photographic Image Editing and Printing. Calibration ensures Accurate Screen to Print Matching.

You should Calibrate your Monitor on a regular basis, typically every 3 to 4 weeks, as all Monitors will “Drift” or shift out of their calibrated state, and need to be “Characterized” or measured, and Recalibrated to Industry standard specifications.

Watch this X-Rite Video Tutorial on Calibrating your Monitor using the X-Rite i1 Display Pro

Watch this X-Rite Video Tutorial with Mark Platt, showing you how to Calibrate your Monitor properly with step-by-step instructions for what settings you should use for the X-Rite i1Display Pro Colorimeter, using the X-Rite i1Profiler Software.

Why you should know how to Calibrate your Monitor using an X-Rite i1 Display Pro.

Not using monitor calibration to me is like burning money, well, burning paper and ink. You have to have a correct starting point and that’s a calibrated monitor. This is the beginning of a flawless workflow.

ANDY KATZ – X-RITE COLORATTI
How to Calibrate your Monitor

Calibrating your Monitor properly sets the White Point or Color Temperature of your Monitor, its Brightness Level, and Contrast and compares your monitor’s color accuracy to standard colors, and performs a Quality Assurance check over time.

An uncalibrated monitor is typically too bright for editing and viewing of Photographic Images and will make your prints come out too dark.

  • A Calibrated Monitor Increases your productivity
  • Monitor Calibration ensures your screen matches your prints
  • Accurate prints Increase customer satisfaction
  • Customer satisfaction Increases your bottom line!

Get an X-Rite i1Display Pro to Calibrate your Monitor.

A Colorimeter is essential for accurate printing of your images and should be in your toolkit.
Freestyle Photographic Supplies includes a Free 25-page Instruction Guide for Setup, Usage, and Troubleshooting.

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Let us Calibrate your Laptop Monitor

Bring your Laptop to us!
We will Calibrate your Laptop Monitor for $25 to make sure your screen matches your prints.
This is a stop-gap one-time service until you get a Colorimeter and Calibrate your Monitor regularly.

Monitor Calibration Service

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Gain Color Confidence by taking this Color IQ Test Now!

Take the X-Rite Color Challenge and Hue Test

Take this fun and simple on-line color IQ test and learn how you see color. You’ll get more accurate results if you have a calibrated and profiled monitor. Learn more. Share the color IQ test with your friends and colleagues!

Are you among the 1 in 255 women and 1 in 12 men who have some form of color vision deficiency? If you work in a field where color is important, or you’re just curious about your color IQ, take X-Rite’s online challenge to find out. Based on the Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test, this online challenge is a fun, quick way to better understand your color vision acuity. 

Just remember, this is not a replacement for the full test!

Click Here for the Test

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Need your Monitor Calibrated to Gain Color Confidence?

Let us Calibrate your Laptop Monitor

Bring your Laptop to us!
We will Calibrate your Laptop Monitor for $25 to make sure your screen matches your prints.
This is a stop-gap one-time service until you get a Colorimeter and Calibrate your Monitor regularly.

Monitor Calibration Service

Get an X-Rite i1Display Pro to Calibrate your Monitor.

A Colorimeter is essential for accurate printing of your images and should be in your toolkit.

Freestyle Photographic Supplies includes a Free 25-page Instruction Guide for Setup, Usage, and Troubleshooting.

Buy from Freestyle Now

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See Our Client’s Amazing Portfolios

See our client’s amazing portfolios, from Pictorial to Abstract Photography

See our client’s amazing Portfolios by viewing the images they’ve printed on our Archivable Fine Art Media from Canson-Infinity, Arches, Hahnemühle and Ilford.

Our Client’s Fine Art prints have been presented for prestigious national portfolio reviews, MFA submissions and student competitions, exhibitions at Galleries and Museums, and are sought out by discerning collectors. 

From photojournalistic images of the social justice movement protests sweeping across our nation and the world, to dream-like allegorical composites and pastoral landscapes that mystify or console us during the most devastating pandemic to strike humanity in over a century.

See our Clients Portfolios

Client Slideshows

Click on their Name to be taken to their website.

Michal Greenboim

Michal is an internationally-exhibited artist, with her work held in several solo shows, at institutions such as the Griffin Museum of Photography, FotoNostrum Gallery and Davis Orton Gallery. Her photographs are the subject of two monographs, Orchard trail (Self-published, 2016), On Our Journey Home (Artist book and self, 2021). She was also made a short film, But I am here (self 2019) an environmental project.

From her self-published book On Our Way Home

Richard O’Neill

Richard O’Neill traveled the world with camera always in hand in concurrence with building a distinguished career in advertising as Executive Director of Integrated Production at TBWA/Chiat/Day Advertising in Los Angeles.  In his role as a producer for over three decades Richard won many of the world’s top international advertising awards including the prestigious Cannes Grand Prix for producing Apple’s famous “1984” Macintosh commercial.

Point Lobos Tide Pools

Michelle Zousmer

Michele Zousmer is a humanitarian and fine art photographer. The camera is her tool to give voice to marginalized communities and witness the human experience. Michele’s work celebrates each individual’s strength and beauty, as well as their vulnerability and spirit, going beyond how one presents oneself to the world.

Michele believes a photograph can create a lasting impression of emotion, curiosity, love and ultimately, hope of mankind. It can help people heal, give them dignity and feel empowered. Her photographs reveal insights into the lives of people we wouldn’t otherwise meet.

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Jon Lardizabal

Jon Lardizabal is an emerging artist whose interest in purposeful composition stems from his background in kinesiology. Observation of an athlete’s injury and the meticulous process of returning an athlete to play translated effortlessly to detailing a subject’s relation to its surroundings within a frame during his self-taught photography classes.

The discovery of artists such as Leonard Freed, René Magritte, and Elliott Erwitt would captivate Jon to the point of creating an in-house darkroom and creating a majority of work within the black and white aesthetic.

He has since received honors at local calls and shows such as the Athenaeum’s 23rd Annual Juried Show and The Studio Door’s 50 to Watch where his work has been described as technically sound and being reminiscent of imagery from Magnum photographers in the 1970’s/1980’s.

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We now offer Aquarelle Watercolor Media – a Game Changer!

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Thurston Print Lab now offering Arches Aquarelle Watercolor Media

Arches Aquarelle Watercolor Media is now available for printing your Fine Art Images, and with its Bright White Base and Beautiful Mould-made Texture it is a game-changer!

ARCHES® Aquarelle from Canson-Infinity is recognized by artists as one of the most prestigious watercolor papers with a history that spans many centuries. ARCHES® master papermakers have been producing very high-quality fine art papers since 1492, and today ARCHES® is the only paper mill in France using a traditional cylinder mould process for all its papers, including ARCHES® Aquarelle Rag.

Using the traditional watercolor base, the paper has an even natural grain and a felt-marked finish. It is manufactured using 100% cotton which contributes to the paper’s natural beauty and feel. The pure white base does not contain any optical brightening agents (OBAs). 

Aquarelle 310GSM Matte finish has a unique inkjet receiving layer that produces prints with superb color rendition, deep blacks, and pure whites offering photographers, artists, and printmakers the opportunity to create images with superb tonal range, excellent highlights and mid-tones.

ARCHES® Aquarelle Rag from Canson-Infinity is a prestigious paper and offers artists, printmakers and photographers alike the ability to create digital fine art prints on an authentic ARCHES® paper for both limited and open edition work.

By offering Aquarelle Watercolor Media to our clients we have created a custom ICC Printer Profile, which can be downloaded here, which gives us the most accurate and consistent color possible from our Canon Pro-2000 Printer, and also allows our clients the ability to Soft Proof or preview their images on a Calibrated Monitor very accurately before printing on this exciting new media offering.

Our Custom Printer Profile testing shows exceptional results with Blacks/Shadow Detail down to a level of 4-6 and Highlights/Whites detail up to 252-253, a very impressive tonal range for a Matte Watercolor Paper.

Order Aquarelle Prints Today!