Metal Photo Printing Explained | 5 Different Aluminum Print Surfaces. 

Have you ever printed anything on metal? How'd it look?

1:53 - High Gloss 2:24 - Mid Gloss 2:53 - satin 3:52 - Sheer Gloss 5:10 - Sheer Satin

Great explanation, Nate! You recommend Bay Photo to me earlier this year and I have been very pleased. I have placed three different orders...each with multiple photos. They do great work! Thank you!

You just made my first photo printing a whole lot easier with this video! Thank you for always sharing about Bay Photo Lab and for this video. I wouldn’t even know where to start otherwise 😅

Great walkthrough! What fascinated me was that the satin finish (3rd sample) seem to reveal much more details in the shadows.

Love this Nate. I actually wanted to know the difference between all of them. Thank you for that

best explanation so far, printful could not explain this issue over email

Great explanation. Very good information. I like the Satin finish too. Very good quality from Bay Photo.

Thanks for the demo on the different sheens available. 👍

Hey thank you so much this video really helped me! Keep going 😄

This was very useful, thank you.

Awesome walk thru! Sold!👊

Leaving this to get u more view friend: I'm getting a metal print done for my pops for Fathers Day. Thank you for the comparison of the different surface 👍 He will love it 😃

Great explanation, Nate!

What up nerds made me smile immediately. Instant subscribe!

Thank you, I like the Satin.

Great informative video!

EXCELLENT video!! 💯👍🏻

Excellent video, thank you. For all the reasons you stated, I print most of my photos on metal with differnet finishes. I would caution using Bay Photo. About four years ago, it took three tries for me to receive a 40x20 metal print that was undamaged during shipment. Needless to say, my client and I were not very happy. I called and made suggestions about how other print houses shipped metal prints without damage during shipment and they did not change their method. A few months later, I met their head of customer service at Imaging USA and shared my frustration and concerns with her. She assured me whe would look into it and get back to me. I am still waiting for a response. Needless to say, I stopped using Bay Photo and will likely not use them ever again. I have since started using White House Custom Color and they have lived up to my every expectation.

That sheer finish is 👌🏼

Just found your channel. Awesome. I do astrophotography and am getting good at it. I will retire soon and as my next hobby I want to start printing my images on metal. And yes my first metal print was done by bay photo the Lagoon nebula . I live in Northern California so great place for astrophotography. Big question is what printer to buy for this adventure. Thanks great video in that the choices of surface and results plus the deal from bay photo.

I want to buy the printer and not order them.. any idea where can i find a printer for these type if umages?

Would you say your favorite is Satin? If you could only pick one to print on for the rest of your life?

Thank you soooooo much

You nailed it. I’ve printed on all of them. I don’t know what this new chromaLuxe is. Maybe do another video on that. I never print people on the sheet. It looks weird. Black and white pix are amazing on sheer.

I think I will go with satin, thank you🤗

Hi can metal prints go outside on a fence? How do they last in weather? Thanks 🙏🙂

Thank you.

How do you protect or preserve metal prints?

I loved doing this with different paper types, glad to hear that Bay Photo has a nice deal with metal types! Are the corners that say what type they are a sticker or permanently on the image?

Can you tell me the type of aluminum used, what its name is, what type of printer is used, and the work supplies

Is there such thing as holographic metal prints for ones artwork?

@nateinthewild - is there an updated promo code for bay photo?

What size are you samples?

where i can find the aluminum plates

how is it printed? is it just sublinmation ink heat pressed onto it?

Should you over expose your photo a little before printing or no?

What kind of aluminum using you sir.

is it chromaluxe ??? or white coated aluminum

Hi, I would like to know what material we will use to coat the finished image to make it shine and stand out more. I used a metal sheet for printing, the color dropped a bit.

In a living room, where we have some windows -- do you think satin may be better than high gloss? Photo is nature/lots of colors + some people

But what printer do you use to print on metal?

the promo code NATE50 is not apply....

You should have kept the thumbnail shot in the video so we can have a good simultaneous comparison.

Code doesn't work

Where do you souce those products, bro? I mean which supplier? Thanks

Dang it looks like that promo isnt valid anymore :(