Featuring the latest digital technology, ABC Photocolour is proud to announce our newly invested fully digital minilabs, the QSS-2721DLS and the QSS-3101Digital, from Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd. Both are highly sophisticated machines that can print up to 12" x 18" on a wide variety of photographic papers. If you wish to know more about our digital minilab systems and to familiarize yourself with the technology, please visit our new technology section.
file preparation
For output to our Noritsu Digital Printers, we offer two options to choose from:
Noritsu Digital Machine Printing
customer prepared, ready-to-print files.
Noritsu Digital Custom Printing
image files requiring file preparation to output.
When preparing your digital images for Noritsu Digital Machine Printing the following criteria must be met:
Files can only be either TIFF or JPEG, as we do not support camera raw files
TIFF files can contain no Adobe Photoshop layers or channels.
JPEG files are recommended to be saved at maximum quality, i.e. 10 - 12.
Images for output should have a minimum of 150 ppi at final size for optimum image quality.
All images must be in an RGB colour space with the appropriate ICC profile tagged.
All images must be be 8-bit colour.
File names should be kept to under 30 characters saved with the appropriate extension .jpg or .tif.
All images should be sized and cropped to the requested print size. Images not sized or cropped correctly will be centre cropped only.
Correctly Cropped Image
Original Image with Centre Crop
For Noritsu Digital Custom Printing, there is an additional service charge for file preparation. Please contact the digital imaging department via phone at 604-736-7017 ext. 637 or via email at digital@abcphoto.com.
digital machine printing services
For our professional photographers we offer several ways of sending in your files for output to our digital printers. The Kodak ProShots System is the newest and easiest way to connect to our lab with email, FTP, CD or other removable media as other options. For more information regarding the Kodak ProShots System, please refer to the Kodak ProShots System section.
From our Noritsu Digital Printers, we output onto Kodak matte and glossy paper. For pricing and more information regarding Noritsu Digital Machine printing as well as paper surface availability, contact the digital department via phone at 604-736-7017 ext. 637 or via email at digital@abcphoto.com.
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