PaperEye Editions offers true archival limited edition prints, created by the world renowned artists of Braid Media Arts. Our editions represent the very finest in hand-crafted digital printmaking. Braid Media Arts and PaperEye consist of pioneers in digital art.

The prints we create are the art. Whether or not we initially designed the images for the printer, our goal is producing beautiful print, not mimicking anything else. We have always worked with the medium. We find what a medium does well, does naturally, and exploit those properties to make art. We believe this is the best approach to print making - viewing the print as the medium. The print is the original.

PaperEye consists of pioneers in digital art. In 1984, co-founder Rick Berry created the first digital cover illustration for a novel in the world. Around the same time Darrel Anderson became increasingly involved in digital art — not only using digital tools, but new authoring new software to expand creative options. Since that time, we've closely followed all developments in digital print technology.

We believe that the value of a print — and its status as a work of art — should be based on the quality of the image, the quality of the materials, and the artists level of involvement in the print making process. We own our press so we do more than simply oversee the process — we work with the process to produce art.

With digital work there is no original in the traditional sense, no physical art object. The signed and numbered prints we create from these electronic images are the art. Whether or not we initially designed the images for the printer, our goal is producing beautiful print, not mimicking what is on the screen.

Our editions are limited to 10-200 copies. The rarity of these small editions increases the value of your investment. Each image is prepared for print from our digital files. Since, in many cases, there is no physical original, these limited edition prints are the "original."

Regardless of size or substrates used each image has an edition of a fixed number of copies. This means that when you purchase a copy of "Book of Hours" by Rick Berry, you know that it is one of only 200 copies. Some of those copies may be larger or smaller than your print, or printed on different media, but the total edition is limited to a maximum of 200 copies. The flexibility of digital printmaking allows us to produce custom editions for specific applications. We can adapt the scale and medium to match the setting, all the while maintaining a single limited edition of that image. Images that appear as "not-available" in the catalogs may be available as special prints. Please contact the paperEye custom prints department at prints@braid.com to inquire about a custom print.

Every print is signed and numbered, and availible in several sizes. Each print is a museum quality archival print, using pigment-based color, the only tradition in fine art permanence.

Here at Braid, a select group of professional artists and craftsman create and produce their own fine art prints. Our interest in getting the best is personal.

Our new Roland press is the print making solution we've been seeking for years. It offers terrific image fidelity, a fabulous choice of substrates ranging from canvas, cotton rags, acid-free watercolor strocks, even indestructible Tyvek and a variety of films for custom applications like murals and backlit installations. A fifty-two inch print width at 1440x720 ppi provides a stunning size/detail ratio...all done with a six-color pigment inkset.

Unlike the fugitive giclee art process that use dyes, our prints are truely archival because they are printed with pigments. Oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, lithographs, serigraphs, cave paintings, you name it, they all use pigment-based color—the only tradition in fine art permanence.