Full print shop reopens at Woodstock’s UPS Store

Published 12:00 am Sunday, November 24, 2024

As detailed in a prior article, three years ago the west side of the building housing the Woodstock UPS Store on Woodstock Boulevard (the space now occupied by “Musical Monsters and Budding Bookworms”) had a full print shop – and then the wall went up to open the space for the new store, well before Kelly Keogh became owner at UPS Woodstock.

But Keogh told us, in the prior profile of the shop, that he wanted to somehow re-create the printing possibilities that the in-house print shop had made available.

And now he has done it. A new printer has been installed in the UPS Store, and it provides the same services as the previous print shop and more, because the new Canon “Image ProGraf” offers the same “Giclee” printing, meeting the international Giclee requirements for printing: Ink that uses pigment instead of dye; top quality inkjet ink; and use of a print paper that is a watercolor cotton rag, of museum and archival quality.

However, there still is an important difference, said the store’s print artist, Terill Ketcham: “Our new printer exceeds the previous one because it has an amazing twelve ink colors! Regular color printers have four. Much like when you make an image with paint, having more colors to work with gives you a much wider range of hues. We have been astonished by the bright yellows, vibrant light blues, rich and neon purples, and deep magnetic black that this machine can produce.”

Original artwork can be scanned to produce digital files, large format inkjet prints, greeting cards, or postcards. Artists can make prints to hand sign, and to use for limited-quantity runs for sale or display in galleries or museums. High quality architectural plans, mural templates, sewing patterns, high quality prints of personal photos or posters for science or economic presentations are possible. Architectural plans are priced at $4 for the first page, $2 per page for following pages, and can likely be ready the same day.

For a Holiday gift, Ketcham suggests: “Classical art more than a hundred years old is in the public domain, and high-resolution files are often available in archives online. Perhaps the art lover in your life would enjoy a top-quality, archival print of Van Gogh’s Irises, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, or a gorgeous portrait by Klimt.”

Both Terill Ketcham and Ashlyn Jenkins at the store have been trained to operate the new printer, including making prints using very large formats – 42 inches in width, by virtually any length – and, using a variety of papers. Terill is available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for printing, and print jobs can be initiated outside of those hours as well. Call the store at 503/788-1400 for more information.