DIY C-Prints
Experience the freedom of affordable museum-quality printing: from your home or at our lab.
Your digital darkroom
We provide on-demand access to a digital printer that uses darkroom technology to produce museum-quality prints.
Our award winning Polielettronica LaserLab (“the Polie”) combines lasers with RA-4 chemistry to create darkroom-style prints from digital files.
The richness, sharpness, saturation and depth of this process continues to be unequaled by other printing methods.
With our DIY C-Print services, you can use the Polie as your own personal printer: from your studio or ours.
Your photos +
the world’s best printer
Traditional darkroom technology — optimized for digital files — at your fingertips.
Print from your studio or ours
Our printer uses the AdobeRGB 1998 colorspace, which is probably what your monitor is calibrated to.
AdobeRGB 1998 makes it easy to prep your images from your home, studio, our lab, or wherever creativity strikes.
Come by the photo lab, enjoy an organic espresso, and use our calibrated Mac workstations to edit your images and send them directly to the printer.
Or, download our ICC profiles, prep your images, and send us your prepped files using our easy upload tool.
Need Help Getting Started?
Our friendly staff is always ready to chat about your images and offer suggestions.
Print On Demand
Ready in just 8 minutes — our ‘POD’ prints are the perfect mix of speed and control.
Think of your paper as a blank canvas.
It’s a place to experiment with different print sizes, quantities, and image placements. It’s a way to make test strips, collages, and new pieces of art.
For example, using an 18×30″ canvas, you could make a single large print, two 11×17″ prints, four 8×10″ prints… or even twenty 4×6″ prints. The choice is yours.
Order online — or stop by our lab and send your image directly to the printer using our Mac editing stations.
You’re in Control
Use your favorite editing app to fill the paper with as many photos as you want.
Super Saver Prints
in 24-hours or less
Just upload your image, choose matte or glossy, pick a standard size, and we’ll take care of the rest — within 24 hours.
No one wants to wait for their beautiful new prints … and why should they?
The flexibility of our Polielettronica LaserLab allows us to offer the fastest turnaround on high-quality prints in San Francisco.
Photograph by Jock McDonald
Type “C” Photographic Prints
Our Polielettronica LaserLab is a state of the art silver-halide photographic printer and processor.
It exposes your image onto photo paper and processes it in precisely calibrated chemistry. The richness, sharpness, saturation and depth of this process continues to be unequaled by other printing methods.
Imagine getting:
- a traditional “darkroom-style” print
- prepared in an R-4 chemistry bath
- created directly from your digital file
- at unparalleled museum-quality
- in under 8-minutes
“I used Print on Demand for a show and it felt like I was almost in my own studio.
I’m happy with the prices and my prints are gorgeous. I’ll definitely be back!”
~ Jana C.
Photograph by Ethan Russell
Fuji Crystal Archive Paper in matte and glossy
This professional photographic (light-sensitive) paper is designed for use in fine art, exhibitions, portfolios, advertising, and other high-quality photo applications.
Fuji Crystal Archive delivers rich tonal gradation, superb colors and pure whites with exceptional sharpness and lasting permanence, for archival use and for family pictures and photo-albums.
I’m a professional photographer and I always take my medium and large format film here.
My film is always perfectly developed, dust free, and on time.
~ Penguin P.
DIY C-Prints
Pricing
Print on Demand
12×30″
18×30″
24×30″
30×30″
30×42″
30×49″
$35
$45
$60
$75
$113
$122
Super Saver Sizes
8×8″
8×10″
11×14″
11×17″
16×20″
20×20″
20×24″
20×30″
$9
$9
$16
$19
$33
$42
$47
$58
Paper Schedule
Matte & Glossy
Print your images the moment they’re ready and take them home eight minutes later. If you’re coming into the lab to do your printing, please choose the correct time for your desired paper surface:
MONDAY
Matte
10am – 1:30pm
Glossy
2pm – Close
TUESDAY
Glossy
10am – 1:30pm
Matte
2pm – Close
WEDNESDAY
Matte
10am – 1:30pm
Glossy
2pm – Close
THURSDAY
Glossy
10am – 1:30pm
Matte
2pm – Close
FRIDAY
Matte
10am – 1:30pm
Glossy
2pm – Close
SATURDAY
Matte
12pm – 6pm
Our Mission Dolores Park location is open by appointment only
Our friendly staff loves to share their expertise and experience. Come in, load up your photos on a Mac workstation, sip on an organic espresso or tea, and let us help you create the perfect print.
We’re always here to help
(415) 252-1300
info@dickermanprints.com
Monday: 10 – 6
Tuesday: 10 -7
Wednesday: 10 – 6
Ask us anything
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