This article gives us a step by step guide on how you can print your artwork to liven up your house or for business purpose. I’ll advise you to do printing by yourself to save on cost and to give you full control of your artwork.

Working on your own printing sharpens you to become a good photographer. You’ll be able to see your work in different dimensions and how colors and tones affect images.

Below is a simple guide on how you can print your own artwork;

#1. Use A Good Display

After you’ve converted your artwork into a digital format, ensure to use a display with higher resolution to produce quality images. You shouldn’t use a laptop because it wouldn’t give you enough space to work on editing and evaluation before printing is done.

If you wish to print your own images, the first step is selecting a powerful desktop display. The most recommended display that is cheap but gives quality output is from EIZO and NEC.

#2. Mark And Profile Your Display

The monitor you’ve chosen to work on should be set in the right manner such that system display wouldn’t bring any challenge. Ensure color formatting and brightness is set to its optimum level.

Commonly, it’s been noted that the most issue photographers encounter when doing their printing is where all outputs becoming a blur and very dark. The reason behind this is because settings of the display are left too bright. Setting the brightness of your display to about 100 cd/m2 (Candela per Square Meter) is recommended.

In order to use a correct brightness, you’ll require to set your display and customize a profile by using the best hardware package. X-Rite is a good profiling system you could use.

#3. Use A Decent Printer

Choose a printer that will give you the best results at an affordable price. Professional printers and home use printers have flocked the market, so it’s upon you to choose the best fit.

While there are plenty on the market I suggest Canon or Epson Stylus printers. Both give enormous and exceptional results, and usually riddle the recommended lists of artwork printers.  In my experience, the printers are durable if well taken care of, so consider it an investment.

#4. Use Good Media

Select a printing substrate that you like the most and that offer appealing characteristics to your home or clients. Breathing colors have overwhelming outputs and Epson media.

#5. Use Good Printer Profiles

The main crucial aspect of printers is the ICC profiles but it’s mostly neglected by many artistic geeks. Printer profiling helps to manage the outputs of the printer with regards to the combination of different printer models with the selected models.

#6.Soft Proof

Don’t hurry thinking about printing your work without passing it through a preview. This gives you a rough idea on how your output would look like. You can use software like Photoshop or profiles to check on your work.

#7. Choose Printer Setting Carefully

After all processes of editing and previewing your work is done, it’s now the final stage of printing. You’ll be required to choose the right settings to obtain high-quality output. Select the type of resolution you would want the image to be printed on.

Once your artwork has been printed, leave it to dry up and you can use it anywhere you intended to use.

If you are looking to sell your art, it is important that you know a bit more about the different strategies that you can implement. Selling your art isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, it means that you can have the fund that can be used to fuel your passion. First, you want to decide whether or not you are going to make art that pleases willing customers or you are just going to make art that satisfies your standards. These are two things that you have to know.

Next, you have to make sure that you know the pricing for the art that you are selling. Try to take a closer look at your clients and the things that they are most likely going to buy. Here, you can compare the price that you are asking to the price of other artists.

Also, you want to make sure that you have branded yourself. You need to focus on your marketing in order to attract more people who might be interested in buying your art. Remember that with the right approach, it becomes easier to sell your art.

Do you want to become known as a highly reputable artist in your circle? A lot of artists dream to have the admiration of others. However, keep in mind that it isn’t exactly an easy thing to have. You will need to deal with a lot of things. For instance, you need to understand that you will have to be able to consistently produce critically acclaimed art. There are artists that are able to produce a good number of art. However, there are those who produce art in order to sell them to their clients. If you want to be known within your circle, you want to make the necessary sacrifices. It means that you might not be able to make some money in some of your work. Instead, you are going to please your critics first. If the customers tend to love your work, then this is simply coincidental.

Another thing that you should do is to market yourself. You need to build a brand around your work as an artist. You can also start doing things that are unique about you as an artist. This will help get you introduced within an artist circle.