How to Print Your Image to Perfectly Fit any Frame You Find in the Store

Today, we will explore modern, easy, and affordable methods to ensure your photographs are perfectly framed.

Places where you can buy the frame

There are a lot of places where you can buy good quality nice frames. It might be a big wholesale store like Ikea, Walmart, Superstore, etc., it might be a small store, or boutique, or something else. It might be expensive, but might be very affordable.

We are not talking about small frame, 4x6 inches image for example – it’s easy, it just fits into a specific image size, so you can buy a frame, insert a picture and put it on the table.

Let's consider how to print your image in order to it fit frame and mat you choose

For a big-size frames the process is much more complicated. Quite often big-size frames have a mat, and printed image should be a little bit bigger than a space in the mat. Simultaneously printed image should have margins that are big enough to fix the image inside the frame. Even if your frame doesn’t have a mat, you might want to leave big or small margins around you image.

Let's consider $10 12x16 inches (310x410mm) frame from the store, see image below.

The main question most people have about frames larger than 4x6 inches is how to print the image from their smartphone or camera so that it fits the frame they see in the store.

Two criteria should be met to properly fit the photo into the frame:

• You need to print your image on paper that is the same size or smaller than the inner dimensions of the frame to ensure it fits properly when inserted, but it should be large enough to secure it in the frame without falling out.
• You need to print the image with printable area that is a little bit bigger than the mat space. It should be bigger to overlap the mat a little bit so you don’t have a white line between the mat and the image. If you don’t have a mat, but want to have margins you need to choose margins sizes.

Thus, in addition to choosing the paper size, it's also necessary to select the printable area or set the margins.

Setting paper size, margins and printing area

PhotoInPrint provide the web interface that allow photographers not only choose the paper size, but also specify printing area sizes or margin sizes.

If you need any custom sizes, that doesn't represented in the order form, you can choose the next bigger paper size and specify required cutting sizes in the form. We will cut the print according to sizes you need.

Example how to print 16x20" image

1. On the Printing web page choose 17x22" paper size,
2. Check "Margins / Printing Area" checkbox to specify the image area (printing area),
3. Specify image (printing area) sizes you need,
4. Check the "Cut the paper to size" checkbox,
5. Set the sizes that you need to cut your image (you can choose any size that bigger than printing area and smaller than a paper size)

We will cut the print according to sizes you need.
The price in this situation will be calculated based on the 17x22" paper size.

With us you can choose any frame you like, select the image, set up image area sizes, and print that image for that particular frame.

Then, simply insert your printed image into your frame, and you're done. Now it is simple and affordable.

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