Why & How To Support Sustainable Photography Printing For Fine Art

Artisan HD’s long commitment to professional fine art printing includes using the best-in-class photographic printers to create stunning fine art images with vivid color and detail.
For over a decade professional photographers, artists, and graphic designers have trusted our wet lab LightJet process to achieve the finest photo prints. From a quality of output standpoint, both we and our customers were elated with the high-quality, gallery-level prints we produced.
Unfortunately, there were a few disadvantages to wet lab photo development that made us start to reevaluate how sustainable keeping wet darkroom capabilities was. Wet labs have several environmental downsides compared to dry labs:

• Uses more water
• Uses more energy
• Creates toxic chemical waste

Figuring out ways to make our water and energy usage more sustainable was possible but there was nothing we could do about the chemicals used in the wet lab LightJet.