Direct print is a service which enables to carry out a print following your picture, without any intervention from our technicians (no color balance, no retouching, and no framing).

We respect your view as such and we do not modify your work whatever the service, the format and the selected media.

You can benefit from the advantages of a production line graded and balanced in accordance with the norms of a professional photo lab (imaging devices and paper processor for color or B&W prints, pigment ink, Carbon, Latex or UV printers).

In this way, we give you the opportunity to handle your prints at the same level as our printing and retouching technicians concerning our professional prints services, exhibition prints or certified proofs.
You have at hand more than 50 service/media combinations from a professional lab, as if you were "inside" without any concern about the tracking of the supplies and the monitoring of your process.

Direct printing is available for 5 different services :

• C-type prints in color (glossy or satin) and authentic fibre based prints in B&W (RC or baryta paper)
• Pigment ink on RC , Fine Art and special media (possible choice between HP Vivera or Epson K3+ pigment inks)
• Carbon Piezography inkjet on Fine Art media
• Ecologic Latex Inkjet for a photo quality printing on very large formats for indoor and outdoor display
• UV inkjet for photo quality printing on flexible and rigid substrates for indoor and outdoor display

The technical quality obtained with the prints is strictly the same as our most prestigious work by using the same media.
You have the total control concerning the final rendering of your images.
You can rely on our professional and technical skills and our benchmark equipment.

You can also choose the finishes combined with the different media and order them online with a preferential rate (more than 50 finishes to combine) Learn more

For further information concerning the management of your files, click here.

• An optimized rate for a benchmark professional quality, with charges calculated per cm² that spare you the choice between different prices for the usual formats.
• You control the precise format of your print to the nearest millimeter.
• You gain time by sending your images online; your order directly arrives in our production mainframe so that you don't have to come in our shop.
• You can order 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
• You have at your disposal a free online help supportdirect@picto.fr
• You can order online very large format prints (maximum roll width 1.25m for C-type prints, 1.60m for pigment ink, 1.10m for Carbon inkjet, 2.50m for Latex inkjet, 2.00m for UV inkjet).
• You can upload your files in Jpeg or Tiff.
• You can upload and use the ICC profile of our imaging devices/printers in order to get your images ready and to professionally control their final outcome Direct profiles.
  Your file is automatically converted from your working space to the color space and the utilized printer.
• You visualize with accuracy the ordered work (precise formats to the nearest millimeter, usual professional formats).
• The production lead time is optimized, generally less than 24H (working days) for C-type prints without finishing available at Bastille (day+1), except for baryta paper prints which need a longer lead time for finishing (+24H).
  Our deadlines : learn more
• You can prepare your order as you go; a backup copy of the ongoing order is possible.
• You follow the progress of your order via your account.
• You receive an email as soon as your order is finalized.
• You can receive your prints directly at home or send it to your client (by courier, Colissimo or France/Europe express ) or you can come retrieve it even more quickly in one of our 2 pickup counter in Paris(Bastille or Défense).
• You can prepare an order and transfer it to a third party in order to confirm and pay it (if the third party has a direct print account).
• You can validate and pay an order prepared by someone else (if the person has a direct print account).

You can do it online on the web site http://online.picto.fr
Or on the web site home page www.picto.fr via the tab ‘Prints and direct printing’