Cape Town print house for archival fine-art printing and scanning for artists, photographers and curators
Under the custodianship of Pieter Hugo
Steady Hand Prints operates under the custodianship of Pieter Hugo. His own works belong to the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Rijksmuseum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. His photographs are also preserved within SFMOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Walther Collection, Deutsche Börse Group, the Folkwang Museum, and Huis Marseille.
We walk you through the process from first step – to last
For twenty years, archival pigment ink has been the choice for serious fine art and photographic reproduction. Often called giclée, these are digital prints made on professional large-format printers. We use them to achieve a faithful, lasting translation of tone and texture onto the world’s finest papers.
Piezography is a dedicated black-and-white printing system made for absolute tonal depth. We use an Epson large-format printer fitted with carbon-based monochrome inks.
By blending cool, neutral, and warm inks with extreme precision, we build neutral or toned monochrome prints with deep, open shadows and subtle highlights.
The Imacon 949 remains the benchmark for film digitization. It pulls the negative into a curve — a virtual drum — creating a perfectly flat plane for the lens.
The sensor is actively cooled to eliminate noise, while a soft diffuser fills fine scratches, preserving the raw detail of your negative.
For physical artwork and large-format media, we use the Expression 12000XL Pro. With an optical density of 3.8 DMax and 48-bit colour depth, it catches the quietest gradations in the deepest shadows, registering fine structure and texture exactly as it is.
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