[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

I've just decided to submit a selection of images from the past couple of years to refresh the wall art around the house.

Harvey Norman have an online printing service. If you get small prints done, they go to your local store and it's pot luck who twiddles the dials on the machine in store.

If you order poster prints, 16x20 inch, 16 x 24 nch, and 20 x 30 inch, they go to a national printing centre. I've had quite a few printed like this and I'm happy with the results. To get a good result, naturally you do need to have a calibrated monitor and send them primary image files with well adjusted shadows and highlights. Whoever runs the large format print line in Sydney seems to really know what they are doing and providing i send them a good original, they do a good job with colour, contrast, highlights and shadow even on astronomical images. After printing, I have them delivered free of charge to my local HN store at Young and I collect from there.

The paper stock is Fuji Crystal Archive and they are printed on a FUJI Frontier digital printer which has an archival stability rating of 100 years. I have some of my landscape images printed on this material that have been hanging for 20 years under normal conditions (not in direct sunlight) without any fading, degradation or colour change and have had some of my astro images printed in recent years with good results.

I have a large number of hardwood 16x20" frames and a smaller number of 500x700mm frames. A 20x30 inch print is 508 x 760mm so those images have trim lines embedded on the printed image and the image positioned for a 50x70cm frame size.

I have attached some of the astro images to this post. I'm also print some non-astro landscapes, not posted here as they don't meet guidelines for this sub-forum.

Harvey Norman currently have the large sizes on sale, 16x20 inch are $14 and 20x30 inch are $25. Give them a go, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Joe