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PGH Print Ship is within the Top 10 Print Shops in the USA for Fine Art & Photography printing!
Artwork Scanning & Art Photography
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PGH PRINT SHIP emphasizes AN
ENVIRONMENTAL MINDfulness as an
ARTIST-OWNED & OPERATED
mom & pop print shop.
PGH Print Ship MAINTAINs High-quality
award-winning standards which have earned coveted INDUSTRY-CERTIFications.
Humility and pride find a balance at PGH Print Ship as lifelong printmaker Josh Snider and partners Brittany Sipe and Brandon Hooven offer something large corporations cannot: printing with love. The trio share a thankfulness for every order and knowledge that each customer brings an opportunity that builds onto the next. Understanding that work ethic means the better they do, the better their customers do. The ability to turn down work when they can’t meet a deadline or scrap an order and start over if they see they can do better.
If you're familiar with the industrious history of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, it should come as no surprise that the local community still celebrates hard work, done well. PGH Print Ship is no exception as they produce dozens of orders every day, are consistently improving on their online ordering system, and have innovative automation that allows for wholesale pricing.
Celebrating over a decade in business, their attention to detail and thirst for perfection have earned them nearly ten thousand customers including internationally recognized museums, galleries, artists, and photographers. PGH Print Ship supports many local arts-based organizations like The New Pittsburgh Exposition Magazine and Redfishbowl.
ILFORD, an iconic name in the photography industry has honored PGH Print Ship as a certified printer partner. PGH Print Ship is grateful to be recognized as a Certified Print Lab by Canson, another prestigious brand that traces back to 1557 in France. Renowned for its fine art paper, Canson has been favored by legendary artists such as Picasso, Degas, and Van Gogh. Lastly, Hahnemühle, the inventor of Fine Art InkJet Paper honors PGH Print Ship with a Studio Gold membership in their Digital FineArt Printing Excellence Program.
Although these paper companies are hundreds of years old, ten or fewer printing businesses in America have received these prestigious recognitions from all three; an honor that can only be earned by consistently delivering top-quality prints.
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PRINTING & PROCESSES
For fine art reproductions and photo prints, we use five Canon Pro-2100, Pro-4100, and Pro-6100 wide-format printers with capabilities of printing up to 60” wide. Printing simultaneously in RGB and CMYK color modes via our 12-color system. This advanced system produces rich and vivid colors up to 1000x more colors than machines that only print in CMYK mode. Because of this, our prints challenge any fine art or photography printer in the professional printing market. The range and depth of colors are sure to wow both the harshest critics and curators.
Our copy center boasts two top-of-the-line commercial quality production copiers with attached booklet-makers for hole punching, stapling, and bookbinding. Both the Konica Minolta AccurioPress c2060 and Canon imagePRESS Lite C165 have top-notch quality and the resolution and colors are stunning.
Regardless of the printing method, we aim to be forward-thinking about our materials, our equipment, and the effect they have on our environment. We use FSC-certified materials, recycled materials, or sustainably resourced materials whenever possible. Bulk offset printing is done with soy-based inks. Copier printing is done with either environmentally friendly wax-based toner in the Konica Minolta or the Canon which uses toner with a low melting point that helps minimize power requirements and reduces energy use during warm-up and while on standby. We recycle all of our paper scraps and misprints. All of our printers are ENERGY STAR® certified. Our Canon copier is rated EPEAT Gold and offers a low Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC) rating. Our fine art reproduction machines use aqueous water-based inks, you can rest assured each giclée print is archival and environmentally friendly.
We’re able to have such a diverse product selection due to the combination of our team’s experience across an array of printing methods in addition to partnerships with local and national printers, binders, and mailing houses.
Our in-house production machines allow us to print quickly, without any setup time or costs. Additionally, we have the necessary equipment to trim, bind, score, perforate, fold, laminate, hole punch, and number. We also collaborate with other local print shops that specialize in particular methods that may cater specifically to your needs. We partner with large nationwide trade-only print houses (these are volume-based printing businesses that do not sell to the public) that give us wholesale pricing because we provide them with continuous work. We carefully vet who we partner with for their standards in printing and workplace environment before we call their work our own. Because of these partnerships, we can offer pricing that is competitive with nearly any local printer or national website you can find.
