The second part of our trip to London saw us visit theprintspace. They provide professional quality printing at an affordable price, with a service that uniquely allows the photographer to control how the image is prepared and printed.

Images can be uploaded via the website or you can take images into the lab and drop them into a folder on an iMac to be printed while you wait. theprintspace offer a plethora of print types, including C-Type and Giclee prints and a myriad of mounting options.  We were given a detailed explanation of all the possible choices and shown some of the retouching work that can be done at the lab. Retouching and scanning booths can also be used and are charged by the hour. It was then explained on how to best set up our digital darkrooms and prepare our images for printing. Their website has some really good videos on how to do this.

theprintspace also kindly offered to print an A3 image for each student free of charge. To be honest I couldn't decide which of my images to have printed and plumped for the last one that I had taken and liked. You can see the image at the top of this post. I'm really pleased with the print. The tour of the lab and the explanations of what theprintspace offers along with the technicalities of printing were demonstrated very well.

theprintspace is situated on Kingsland Road, London and is open from 9am to 7pm, Monday to Friday.