Beyond Paper: Opportunities in Specialty Printing

Using dye-sub for its MetalPrints, Bay Photo Lab has worked to get it down to a science. “We’ve really fine-tuned the process, narrowing down the exact temperature, the exact time to make a perfect MetalPrint,” says Weatherby. “The print itself is infused into that aluminum coating through the sublimation process, so that’s what gives it that depth and luminosity. It’s because it’s not printed on top of the aluminum — it’s really in the material.”