Qpix about Qpix
Qpix is a full-service print studio that collaborates with artists, photographers and creative professionals. Every piece is treated as a unique project, offering custom sizes, a wide range of papers and bespoke solutions for printing, mounting and framing.
Hanhemühle in their own words
There are very few companies worldwide that can be proud of such a long company history like Hahnemühle’s. Founded back in 1584 as a paper mill in South Lower Saxony’s Solling uplands, Hahnemühle developed – strictly according to the spirit of its founding fathers – into a customer-oriented and innovative manufacturing facility.
It goes without saying that the products and manufacturing methods have changed to a certain extent since 1584. In the beginning, the product range solely comprised mould-made writing paper but later, artist papers and the Hahnemühle invented fine-art inkjet papers for digital print were added to the range. Furthermore, Hahnemühle papers have been used for decades in or life science applications, industry and research. At the same time, several things have remained the same, such as our high quality standard that guarantees our customers the purest papers for art or technical applications.
Our paper technologists are proficient in their trade. With high-quality pulp and by using formulations that are partly several centuries old, they produce traditional artist papers, FineArt inkjet papers and speciality papers for industry and filtration. We are – in the positive sense – perfectionists and reliable partners for artists, technicians and scientists. We produce papers according to their demands, work jointly with them on improving these papers permanently and develop papers for new market segments.
In conclusion
When framing (the unmounted prints), approximately 1 cm of the printed surface is hidden behind the mat.
All prints are, of course, checked before dispatch, so we would be very surprised if there were any faults with the print that could not be attributed to damage in transit.
There is simply no comparison between the experience of looking at a printed image on paper and looking at the same image on a screen.
Furthermore, colour representation varies between different screens. The printed colours may therefore differ slightly from the colours displayed on the screen.
To get a better idea of how the image will look, your screen must be calibrated.
At first, I had all my pictures on the walls at home in frames with glass. Then I had a conversation with Hanhemühle about whether, given today’s paper combined with modern printing technology, it’s OK to have the paper mounted directly against the glass in the frame, as they pointed out that they never use glass in their frames because it takes away so much of the depth of the picture and thus the experience of looking at the card. I gave it a go at home straight away, and it was absolutely incredible how much better it looked. That’s why there’s no glass in any of the framed options here.