What your print is made of, how it arrives, and how to keep it looking as it did on day one.
The paper and the ink
Giclée printed on 200 gsm enhanced matte fine-art paper with water-based archival pigment inks: deep blacks, no glare, and colours rated to hold for decades indoors. Every line of your route is printed at 300 dpi from the same file you composed in the Studio.
Sizes
- A4 · 28 × 36 cm print · 32 × 40 cm framed
- A3 · 30 × 40 cm print · 34 × 44 cm framed
- A2 · 46 × 61 cm print · 50 × 65 cm framed
- A1 · 61 × 81 cm print · 65 × 85 cm framed
- Medal frame · a 20 × 25 cm print beside a mounted aperture for your medal, in a 30 × 40 cm frame
Frames
- Classic. Solid wood with a satin finish, a slim 20 mm face, 22 mm off the wall. Eight colours.
- Box. The same face, 33 mm deep with a waxed finish and a shadow line around the print. Black, white or natural.
- Mount. A snow-white conservation mount, 2.4 mm and acid-free, between the frame and the print. The print is made smaller to fit the window; the frame stays the size you chose.
- Print only. The giclée print alone, rolled in a tube, for a frame you already have.
Every frame is glazed in clear acrylic rather than glass — lighter, and it cannot shatter in the post — and arrives assembled with the hanger fitted.
Hanging and care
- Hang it out of direct sunlight; pigment inks are lightfast, but no print likes a south-facing window all summer.
- Dust the acrylic with a soft, dry microfibre cloth. No glass cleaner — the solvents cloud acrylic.
- An unframed print arrives rolled. Unroll it on a clean surface, weight the corners with books for a day, and it lies flat for framing.
- Keep it away from steam: not in the bathroom, and not above a kettle.
The map
The streets, water and parks on a print are drawn from OpenStreetMap data — © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright — and the land beneath The relief from Mapzen terrain tiles. The credit lives here and on your order rather than on the print itself.
Screens and paper
The preview in the Studio is the print. Matte paper absorbs a little more light than a screen emits, so colours read a touch softer in the hand; the Ember, Forest and Cobalt palettes were chosen with that in mind.