Metal Printing a Pano?

Marzipanogram · 18 Jun 2017 at 14:56

Can you please recommend an online printing company for printing a panorama (100cm x 27cm) on aluminium?

Good quality, but inexpensive. If that combo is possible.

Thank you.

paul10 · 25 Jun 2017 at 12:53

Whitewall would be one of the best german i believe although have a uk based shop although at 80 quid for your size it will not be cheap ,think they have a 10 % deal on at moment so £70 quid

Marzipanogram · 25 Jun 2017 at 18:12

paul10 said:
Whitewall would be one of the best german i believe although have a uk based shop although at 80 quid for your size it will not be cheap ,think they have a 10 % deal on at moment so £70 quid

Thank you very much

I'll check them out.

crinkleshoes · 26 Jun 2017 at 20:52

I've had some alu and acrylic prints from these guys and I'm very happy with the quality (so much so I bought another yesterday):

https://www.my-picture.co.uk/

Don't use them for canvas though, those aren't very good from that company... use trade canvas instead.

Marzipanogram · 26 Jun 2017 at 21:27

crinkleshoes said:
I've had some alu and acrylic prints from these guys and I'm very happy with the quality (so much so I bought another yesterday):

https://www.my-picture.co.uk/

Don't use them for canvas though, those aren't very good from that company... use trade canvas instead.

Thank you for the suggestion

At first glance they seem more affordable. Hopefully, there's no "add-ons".
I'll look into ordering one tomorrow.

crinkleshoes · 26 Jun 2017 at 22:20

No addons... apart from maybe a mounting bracket if you want one... they're currently doing an offer on 100x75cm for £30 too, both alu and acr... but only in that size I'm afraid, not pano.

I don't use the mounting bracket - I use the 3m damage free hanging tape things.

Marzipanogram · 26 Jun 2017 at 22:52

crinkleshoes said:
No addons... apart from maybe a mounting bracket if you want one... they're currently doing an offer on 100x75cm for £30 too, both alu and acr... but only in that size I'm afraid, not pano.

I don't use the mounting bracket - I use the 3m damage free hanging tape things.

Thank you for the reply.

If for example I ordered the 100x75cm aluminium and my pano photo was 100x27cm.
Does that mean I'd have 48cm of blank space on the height or is the ordering system and printer smart enough to cut the "frame" to 100x27cm?

crinkleshoes · 27 Jun 2017 at 10:02

Marzipanogram said:
Thank you for the reply.

If for example I ordered the 100x75cm aluminium and my pano photo was 100x27cm.
Does that mean I'd have 48cm of blank space on the height or is the ordering system and printer smart enough to cut the "frame" to 100x27cm?

It would crop the picture, so you'd only get about 1/3 of your image

It might let you zoom out, but I wouldn't recommend it... just get the size you want for that one, I only mentioned the 4:3 deal in case there was something else you fancied that suited that aspect ratio.

Marzipanogram · 27 Jun 2017 at 12:05

crinkleshoes said:
It would crop the picture, so you'd only get about 1/3 of your image It might let you zoom out, but I wouldn't recommend it... just get the size you want for that one, I only mentioned the 4:3 deal in case there was something else you fancied that suited that aspect ratio.

OK, cool.
Thank you.

Amp34 · 30 Jun 2017 at 03:56

The print space is definitely recommended, price may be a bit steep though.

Marzipanogram · 4 Jul 2017 at 13:48

Just to update, I ordered an 120cm x 30cm aluminium print from "My-Picture".
It took 7 days from ordering to receiving. I'm very happy with it.
They limit the file size to 100 megapixels, so I had to crop it slightly.

Below, is a photo of the print and below that is the reduced size original with added WMs.
The "original" shown is more saturated and warm than it appears on my site and Ps, because Imgur don't seem to support colour profiles correctly.

^ Click the image for larger view.

Thanks again to CrinkleShoes for the suggestion

crinkleshoes · 4 Jul 2017 at 14:05

Glad you like it, my 120x60 was delivered yesterday and it's nice also

Marzipanogram · 4 Jul 2017 at 15:12

crinkleshoes said:
Glad you like it, my 120x60 was delivered yesterday and it's nice also

Nice one

It was sometime last century that I had anything printed.
But the "75% off your next order" deal, might tempt me