Beyond Ordinary Prints: High-End Fine Art Printing & Enhancement
Ever found the absolute perfect photo on your phone, or downloaded a stunning digital artwork, only to realize the file size is way too small to print without it looking blurry and pixelated?
At Craft Picture Framers in Claremont, Cape Town, we don’t just frame your memories—we bring them to life with professional, gallery-grade printing. We’ve established a complete, in-house one-stop print and frame shop designed to save you time and eliminate the hassle of running around between different labs and framing studios.
Low-Res to Gallery Standard: Our Image Enhancement Expertise
You don’t need to be a professional photographer with massive digital files to get breathtaking wall art. One of our core specialties is saving and scaling low-resolution files that standard printers would instantly reject.
The Upscaling Magic: If you have an image as small as a 120kb mobile photo, our team uses highly specialized, advanced software to reconstruct lost data, smooth out pixelation, and sharpen edges. We can upscale compressed or low-res files to sharp, high-density, print-quality standards capable of being scaled up to any size with beautiful clarity.
Premium Material Menu: Pick Your Finish
Simply email us your digital files, and we will handle the rest. We print exclusively on premium, heavy-weight substrates tailored to different artistic styles:
| Material Type | Weight / Texture | Best For |
| Satin Photographic Paper | 250gsm | Family portraits, vibrant landscape photography, and high-contrast digital designs that need a crisp, professional sheen. |
| Smooth-Matt Archival Paper | 250gsm | Fine art reproductions, modern illustration prints, and typography where you want a flat, elegant, glare-free finish. |
| Matt-Art Archival Paper | 310gsm | Premium museum-grade art. This ultra-heavyweight textured paper gives watercolor reproductions and sketches an authentic, high-end fine art feel. |
| Polycotton Artist’s Canvas | 375gsm | Heavy, authentic woven canvas designed specifically for premium canvas stretching and floating frames. |
Why Our Canvas Printing is Superior (Please Don’t Compare!)
The internet is flooded with cheap, mass-produced canvas printing deals, but they are not created equal. Most budget online canvas prints use thin, plastic-like synthetic materials and rushed, low-ink draft modes.
Our 375gsm Polycotton Canvas printing is completely different:
- Real Artist’s Canvas: We use a thick, heavy, genuine canvas base that holds texture and gives your art authentic depth.
- The Slow-Print Method: We calibrate our high-end printers to run extremely slowly. This meticulous process allows the archival inks to saturate the canvas fibers perfectly, capturing incredible detail, pin-sharp clarity, and rich, true-to-life color gradients.
- The Verdict: The quality of our prints is easily on par with well-known specialty fine-art printers in Cape Town, but we offer it with highly competitive pricing and matching quality.
Trusted by the Professionals: Trial Prints & Gallery Partners
We believe in absolute transparency and zero compromise on quality. To give you total peace of mind before we lock in a large-scale project, we gladly provide test prints for your physical approval prior to the final printing. You can check the colors, the paper texture, and the sharpness before the final, full-size print is made.
Because of this rigid standard of excellence, Craft Picture Framers proudly provides this integrated printing and framing service for a number of prominent online galleries that sell prints and frames across South Africa.
Ready to Print and Frame?
Skip the middleman, save your time, and let the experts handle it from pixel to profile with zero compromise on quality. Just email your files directly to us, tell us your preferred material and size, and we’ll guide you through to the perfect finished frame.
Contact us for a quotation:
Claremont Gallery:
We have art available for purchase at Artdesade Gallery in Claremont.
