ArtBook
The ArtBook is our flagship album and the most popular choice amongst discerning photographers. It’s known worldwide for its enduring beauty, classic simplicity and luxury materials.
As their name implies, ArtBooks feature fine art papers with giclée printing using archival pigment inks. Our advanced inkjet printers are the same printers used to reproduce prints and canvases for museums. This means that with normal use and storage, your album will be resistant to ageing and will remain colorfast over decades. Each spread is individually printed, inspected, creased and hand-bound. We believe that this kind of effort and the keen eyes of dedicated bookbinding artisans are necessary to make books of such outstanding beauty and craftsmanship. Before you order, we highly recommend ordering test prints.
Our ArtBooks are hand-made by some of the finest album artisans in the world and are available in a traditional hardcover layflat style, as well as a special "Journal" style with a soft leather wrap-around cover.
ArtBook Photo Gallery
Fine Art Paper Types
- Matte Paper
- Cotton Rag Paper (regular or deckled edge versions available)
- Hahnemühle Baryta Bamboo Paper (regular or deckled edge versions available)
Matte Paper
Printed on clean, bright white Fine Art Matte Paper with exceptional image sharpness and an exceedingly smooth, non-reflective surface that provides deep, crisp color. The pages have a semi-stiff feel to them, the extra weight of the 240gsm paper provides a soft, sumptuous feel. This type of book is great for negative space designs, lower contrast, low saturation or film-like photography.
Weight: 240gsm + Substrates
Print type: Fine Art Inkjet 12 color
Surface type: α-celulose with some brighteners
Appearance: Smooth, pure white, matte
Spread limit: 10-55 (20-110 pages) 4in / 10cm LittleQT sizes max 30
*Depth of color/blacks: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
**Design over the crease: YES! No cracking/decolorisation
Coated: No
Cotton Rag Paper
Cotton rag is our most popular paper and is chosen by photographers to create high-quality fine art prints. The fine, slightly textured surface and feel of this paper is ideal for printing both black and white and colour photographs as well as art reproductions with impressive pictorial depth.
Available in both straight and deckled edge.
Weight: 310gsm + Substrates
Print type: Fine Art Inkjet 12 color
Surface type: 100% cotton rag acid free, no brighteners
Appearance: Slightly textured, warm, matte
Spread limit: 10-40 (20-80 pages) 4in / 10cm LittleQT sizes max 30. *Journal max 25.
*Depth of color/blacks: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
**Design over the crease: YES! with very dark images the ink on the crease might be prone to cracking
Coated: No
Hahnemühle Baryta Bamboo Paper
With a naturally warm white tone, free from optical brighteners, ensuring museum-quality, archival prints. Offers a gentle texture that gives prints a natural look. Baryta finish provides a luxurious glow.
Available in both straight and deckled edge.
Weight: 305 gsm, 90% bamboo fibres, 10% cotton
Print type: Fine Art Inkjet 12 color
Surface type: Acid- and lignin-free • ISO 9706 conform / museum quality
Appearance: Slightly textured, warm, glossy
Spread limit: 10-40 (20-80 pages) 4in / 10cm LittleQT sizes max 30. *Journal max 25.
*Depth of color/blacks: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
**Design over the crease: YES! with very dark images the ink on the crease might be prone to cracking
Coated: No
Size Selection
- 4x4" (10x10cm)
- 6x6" (15x15cm)
- 8x8" (20x20cm)
- 8x12" (20x30cm) Horizontal / Vertical
- 10x10" (25x25cm)
- 12x12" (30x30cm)
- contact support for custom
Cover Fabrics
For traditional hardcover versions, choose from our full Fabric Selection (pricing may vary, see individual USD/EUR shops for pricing).
For special Journal ArtBooks, select leathers are available for the wrap-around cover.
Cover Personalizations:
Hardcover versions provide for our full array of personalized cover options including embossing, overprint, laser, and more - https://qtalbums.reamaze.com/kb/personalisations
Before you order, please check if the selected personalization is possible for the fabric of your choice - click on the Personalization Chart
Page thickness in ArtBooks - please see the video here
Pages in ArtBooks are constructed using special substrates which give a perfect bond, semi flex appearance and are completely archival (PH 7.5).
Substrates make the pages less vulnerable to warping when exposed to high humidity (>60% Relative Humidity). Page thickness is around 1mm per page.
In the video above we demonstrate how lovely semi-flexible the pages are. Pages can be bent using slight force but will come back to the original state.
Cotton Rag/Bamboo pages are slightly stiffer because of the thicker paper stock.
What are these white sheets between artbook pages?
You may notice that your book comes with a little bit extra - free paper! These sheets of paper are used in the production process to protect the pages from ink transfer whilst we are pressing and trimming. They also help keep your album fresh and beautiful during the shipping process. It is mandatory to keep separators during the transportation of the package. The parcel might be carried under heavy objects that will put pressure on the pages. We recommend that you keep acid-free separators even after you received your album. That is especially important for albums with dark photographs, printed on matte and cotton rag paper.
IMPORTANT DESIGN NOTES: Please keep your designs clean and simple with white backgrounds preferably. It is best to inset images about an inch from the edge of the page. Avoid images with heavy use of deep blacks. Please keep images off the crease as with time the ink on the crease might be prone to cracking. We recommend that you avoid full bleed spreads. We offer these insights into what will give you the best results with these delicate papers and printing process. Due to the nature of pigments being applied to the surface of fibrous papers (especially cotton), there is always the possibility of tiny flakes, cracks, as well as transfer, so we provide the knowledge so that you can make your own judgements.