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We have suspended activities until after retirement in a few years. DesignMaker was founded in 1994 - and its founder has been continously involved in web and graphic design for both Fortune 500 companies and small Mom + Pop businesses. We are maintaining the www.designmaker.com WebDomain for our own use at this time. This is how our 1998 website looked! Your business use must be for legal purposes as defined in our Terms and Conditions which should be reviewed prior to entering into agreement for services from Design Maker. Additionally, there are a significant number of resources provided for your noncommercial personal use if you are not using our services, but they must be used in accordance with our Legal Notice. Any similarity in name to "Design Maker" or "DesignMaker.com" is purely coincidental and software, hardware, or other businesses using this name or style are not connected in any way with our company "Design Maker" which is registered in the state of Pennsylvania.

At the PRINTMAKER studios in Reading, Berkshire UK, we produce fine art giclée prints. These are digitally printed on our large format Epson machines. We work and collaborate with artists, printmakers, illustrators, photographers and designers. We can work with your print-ready files or scan your originals. We offer a print-on-demand service or we can supply a complete fine art edition. The giclee process is ideal for short runs, one-offs and print-on-demand situations where you might just want to print a partial edition. We offer a wide range of printmaking, photographic and watercolour papers. We have over 25 years experience in collaborative editioning for printmakers, photographers and artists working with traditional and digital media. Our expertise in art reproduction for professional artists and illustrators also pre-dates the digital era. For artwork in digital format, we can handle EPS and PDF format for vector files and we use TIFF or JPEG files for scans and photographs. What is a giclee print? Giclée is a French word meaning squirt or spray and although it describes the inkjet printing process succinctly, the term first came into use to describe "Iris" prints or high quality digital proofs for lithographic printers that could mimic the inking profile of a wet proof. The currently held criteria to describe a giclee print is that it should be printed at a high resolution and using pigmented inks that are lightfast, waterfast and are transferred by inkjet onto an archival substrate such as an acid free paper or canvas.