Photofinishing

Pictopia offers web-based photofinishing and digital image management services for commercial and corporate users. Companies requiring professional quality photographic prints can upload their digital files to Pictopia via a web browser, order prints as large as 50" x 120", and have them drop-shipped to anywhere in the world. Pictopia accepts a variety of file formats commonly used by graphics professionals, including both raster (TIFF, JPEG, etc).

Pictopia uses state-of-the-art digital photo printers that produce true silver-halide photo prints with an apparent resolution of 4000 dots per inch and yield a sharpness and color gamut unavailable with traditional film-exposure or digital inkjet printing technologies.

Lab hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Scanning

Drum scanning originals up to 12x18" on the Heidelberg Tango/Primescan drum scanner. Drum scans in 8 or 16 bits per channel, RGB/LAB/CMYK, color-managed, up to 11,000 ppi are the finest scans available. Call us for current prices.

If you have a special job or an especially large number of originals, please contact us to discuss the details.

Benefits of Pictopia Service

Pictopia's key benefit is ease-of-use. Interfacing with photofinishing labs has always required a high degree of technical expertise, thereby limiting the customer base to graphics professionals. Pictopia makes the process of ordering a digital photo print as simple as ordering a book from Amazon.com, thus making digital photo printing available to a much wider audience. In addition, unlike large format inkjet printers, the Pictopia service requires no up-front investment in expensive printers nor the hassles of supplies and maintenance. Other benefits include:

• Integrated UpScale™ Technology
  Pictopia utilizes its exclusive and proprietary Up-Scale™ technology which enables you to print larger sized prints than is otherwise possible. It works automatically in Pictopia servers – freeing you from the task of creating and uploading your own huge interpolated files. UpScale achieves these results while automatically preserving the apparent sharpness of your original image. We recommend you send the original size image to Pictopia, rather than interpolating your file in Photoshop. Pictopia customer testing has shown that the quality of an upsized images will be greater using our technology than Photoshop's bicubic method. In addition, a smaller file will take less time to upload to Pictopia.
• Image Storage
  Pictopia also offers online image storage and management to organize unwieldy image collections into a single, readily available repository.
• Integrated Color Management
  Color-critical customers can employ the appropriate ICC Profile for their selected material to ensure the highest level of color matching.
• Automatic Status Updates
  Customers are sent an email when the order enters the system and again when the order is shipped.
• Drop Shipment
  For situations where the persons ordering and receiving the print are not the same, direct drop shipment is convenient and saves valuable time.
• Fast Turnaround
  We ship your photos within 2 business days to as many people or companies as you want in whatever sizes and quantities you order.