Skink Ink is a Fine Art Printing Studio​

1. We’re Experienced

We’ve been printing for 15 years and the last 5 years alone have completed 12,000 jobs. Prior to that we have decades of experience in professional photo-retouching and work in art galleries and museums.

2. We’re Fast

Usually we have a 24-48 hours turnaround. We have eight printers when most of our competitors have only two. We also have a digital cutter that makes trimming of prints fast and very accurate. We can if need be turn out hundreds of prints in a day with the same exquisite care and attention detail that we are known for when we cut by hand.

3. We Use The Widest Range of Colours Available To Any Form of Printing

We use an exclusively RGB workflow and all of our ink-jet printers contain an extended twelve colour ink set that includes the additional colours orange, green and violet, In painters terms we print with primary and secondary colours. Only fine art ink-jet printing has this range of colours available to it. No other technology can match our gamut and an RGB workflow is meaningless if you print to a CMYK only printer as many of our competitors do.

4. We Have The Widest Range of Printing Papers Available Anywhere

At skink ink our training is in fine art painting and printmaking and this is where we discovered our love of paper. We stock over eighty papers from some of the oldest and most loved paper mills in the world such as Awagami, Arches, Canson, Fabriano and Hahnemuhle. The characteristics of a well chosen paper will immeasurably enhance the quality of a fine art print and we specialise in washi, cotton rag, watercolour, fibre based photo papers and even environmentally sustainable materials such as bamboo and hemp. By comparison our competitors usually restrict themselves to between 5 and 10 papers and often only to those supplied by the printer manufacturers.

5. Everything We Do Is Archival

We only work with pigment based aqueous inks and archival papers. This remains the only combination available for lightfast prints that can last in excess of 100 years. Exceeding by a wide margin all other technologies including traditional silver-based photography, dye sub, UV and solvent printing. Essentially we are spray painting watercolours onto paper. This is new technology using tried and tested materials that have been proven to last for centuries.

6. We’re Artists Who Work For Artists

As artists we share the sensibilities of our clients, we have the same cares and concerns about how a work is made. Online sales of prints and printing services are rapidly expanding with several new companies setting up recently in NYC seeking to capitalise on new markets with new technology. But they don’t understand New York or artists as we do. There are no entrepreneurs, investors, technologists or money men behind Skink Ink. Only artists and we believe in craft. We are passionate practitioners and masters of the craft of print-making in the tradition of Rembrandt and Dürer, updated for the 21st Century. 

7. We Do Work Of The Highest Quality

While our competitors talk of museum quality we actually print for world class art museums. We have made editions for the New Museum (Chris Ofili), the Brooklyn Museum and for the Serpentine Gallery in London (Christo and Jean Claude). We see our work in many art fairs and cultural or educational institutions from AIPAD to Volta from MIT to the Guggenheim. The work we make is frequently destined for galleries in New York and elsewhere. We are the principal exhibition printer for the New York Times and have produced exhibition prints for their offices in New York, Kyiv, Berlin and Seoul as well as the NY Times Museum.

8. We Offer Fulfilment

We specialise in helping artists to sell their own work by offering print on demand, shipping and fulfilment for clients who sell online. We have a highly efficient system to input orders, to print and then to ship your prints to your clients. Creative communities as diverse as graffiti artists, tattoo artists and illustrators have successful art businesses selling the prints we make for them. After a decade and a half of shipping work we are familiar with every problem and have recently started making our own packing boxes to ensure that all work arrives safely especially when shipped flat.

9. We Offer A Money Back Guarantee.

We believe in proofing which is why we do not charge extra for it. We know the difference between screen and paper is significant and the eye may miss a detail that becomes obvious when printed. We always encourage artists especially new customers to proof their files. It prevents disappointment and  avoids the sting of paying for something that wasn’t what was  wanted. Despite our attention to detail, our care and quality checks, occasionally the final product my not be successful. For these ovccassions we offer our guarantee If the work has been proofed and you are still unhappy with the final result we will reprint it or refund the cost. For conditions see our Terms of Service.

10. We’re Not Cheap

We don’t ever intend to be the cheapest printer, we’re not chasing the greatest turnover for the smallest margin as many online services do. We cater to the artist who cares deeply about quality and will spend money on the best materials available to their budget. A client who values their relationship with their printer, who has trust that their job will be done well, every time. We take the time to make sure the work is excellent and we destroy many prints that don’t come up to our standards. We apply every ounce of skill and knowledge acquired over many years to make sure that the prints we make are the best that they can be. We apply our ingenuity and experience to make sure it happens as swiftly and efficiently as possible. We’re not cheap but what we are is extremely good value for the quality of the services we provide.

We’re amongst the best and you should know that.