Colourgenics has been providing top-notch print and film services for Canada's foremost photographers and visual artists for over 25 years. For a past decade we have been applying our printing expertise to digital technology to produce high quality photographic art and art reproductions.

If you are interested in producing beautiful, archival prints on extraordinarily fine, heavy-weight paper or canvas - you have come to the right place. Giclée technology is particularily well suited for light, airy images, such as watercolors, crayons and pastels. In fact, we dare say that giclée prints made from high-resolution scans from original watercolors look so incredibly life-like - you will have hard time telling the copy and the original apart.
We use an Epson's line of large format printers that is well known to artists. We believe that our flagship Epson 11880 and Hahnemühle papers offer the best quality fine art output from all the platforms we have tested so far.
Founded in 1584, Hahnemühle is the oldest German paper mill still producing papers for traditional and digital art. These papers are simply exquisite for ultra-high resolution archival printing.

Spice up your artwork with canvas printing! We offer a selection of world's best artists' canvas materials, including Hahnemühle Monet and Museo Maestro. When you print digital images on canvas, it's unique surface imparts a sense of craftsmanship to your work, implying hand-painted art. Imagine the possibilities for expression and new markets!

Our giclée printing service features great rates, quick turnaround times, excellent colour and very strict quality control. As well, we are one of a few places in Toronto offering special pricing on scan+print packages, with free workstations available for setting up and proofing.

Colourgenics excels at producing large-scale fine art projects, where consistency, attention to minute detail and top notch execution are needed to ensure that your images turn into truly sublime works of art. Click here for up-to-date listing of supported media and pricing for giclée* prints.

Great fine art print starts with a great scan, and we have the best-in-class equipment for making excellent scans, along with affordable, high-quality rental scanning station with an Imacon 848 scanner. Our master printers (with decades of fine art printing experience) will look after your project to ensure breathtaking results.

*What's in the word? Giclée is the feminine of the past particle of French verb to spray. If you researched the topic of fine art printing, you have probably come across some wildly different definitions of what constitutes the giclée process. In essence, anyone with a desktop inkjet can claim that they print giclée. And indeed they do.
But what about us? What do we, Colourgenics, mean when we say that we make giclée prints?
Colourgenics giclée prints are:
Ultra-high resolution inkjet prints made with pigment-based, archival quality inks on a heavy weight, all-natural-fiber paper that contains no optical brighteners. Print Permanence Rating for these prints is over 100 years. (Source: WIlhelm Imaging Research Inc.)

Technical details:
Prints up to 60" wide on roll and sheet paper and/or canvas. Output type: Piezo ceramic high-density print head (8 inks, including Vivid Magenta and light / medium Gray). Resolution: 2880 dpi. Input resolution: 400-500 dpi, RGB.

These are true chromogenic prints imaged on a premium grade, archival photographic paper. Lightjet is rightfully considered a Rolls-Royce of large format photographic imagers - while 1st generation of photo-printers (Lambdas) focused on production volume, and the latest Chromira machines are all about cutting costs; LightJets were built for ultimate in quality.

Our machine runs the best paper currently available on the market - Fuji Crystal Archive series, including Super"C" semi-matte and glossy, Super"C" FujiFlex and - for backlit applications - FujiTrans film. To round up the package we also offer Kodak Metallic paper, with it's unique look and high-gloss finish. Click here for up-to-date pricing for Lightjet prints. Fuji Crystal Archive papers are rated as the most stable photographic papers on the market.

The Lightjet's inherent ability is backed by our expertise in colour correction and optimizing images for printing.
Our Lightjet operators share more than a decade of experience working with and maintaining this machine, so we do know how to get it to perform to its fullest potential.

Add to this a strict regimen of calibration and profiling routines - all our profiles are generated using top of the line Gretag Macbeth hardware and software - and the result is an imaging platform capable of producing truly stunning images and consistently outperforming competing technologies, such as Lambda and Chromira.

Lightjet printing is fully integrated into ROES, our Online Printing System that supports output up to 48"x72". Quality large format printing has never been this affordable! For those willing to try the D-I-Y approach we have set up a special "iPrep" price bracket which allows experienced print enthusiasts to enjoy even better deals on fine art output. Lightjet prints on photographic media up to 50" wide.

Technical details:
Prints up to 50" wide on roll paper.. Output type: RGB lasers exposing photographic media, followed by RA-4 processing. Hardware resolution: 300 dpi, continuous tone. Dmax: 2.65.

Colourgenics is a fine art workshop & boutique based in Toronto. We offer a number of exciting ways to bring your artistic vision to reality.

What is it that makes Colourgenics the #1 supplier for the Visual Arts community? Convenient location? Fair prices? Wealth of experience and expertise? Top-notch equipment? All of the above? You be the judge...
Explore our range of art-related services and find out why top Canadian artists - like Tony Scherman, Arnaud Maggs, Evan Penny (the list is really too long to keep on going) chose us to be their trusted partners.

Here's a short list of the services we provide:

• Scanning
• Digital Editing and Manipulation
• Colour Work
• Archival quality printing, including printing on non-traditional media
• Museum-quality mounting
• Custom packaging
• Shipping and dealing with customs and other cross-border issues
• Archiving and maintaining backups
• Managing editions and revisions

What's more - we get art.
We know when to ask questions, we know when to make a suggestion... and we know when to leave well enough alone.
So get in touch and see for yourself what this actually means - working with professionals.

Feel free to contact us at support@colourgenics.com to discuss your project and how we can help you execute it in world-class style.

For more information on Fine Art prints, including Lightjet printing, Epson Giclée Prints (photo media as well as watercolour and canvas materials), please consult our Printing Services Guide, Technical Specs page, Price List and Media Guide.