Elegant Editions

Specialties

Museum quality Giclee Prints with our Canon imagePROGRAF 8300™, professional scanning with Bettter Light Scanback.

High Quality Archival media

History

Established in 2002.

In 1998 Joe and Lynn Eidem were looking to start a home business. A friend in New Mexico did Giclee printing. They contacted her, and purchased a large format printer from Colorspan.

In 2002, Joe and Lynn were growing tired of the printing business, and wanted to retire from it. Sharon Prior had painted a yellow rose she wanted to have prints of. She asked a friend who she knew had had prints made in the past. The friend gave her Joe’s contact information.

Sharon contacted Joe and talked him into letting her stop by. He showed her what he did and all of the equipment he had. He then said it was all for sale and he wanted out of the printing business.

Sharon and her husband Greg Prior were working on remodeling their kitchen at the time, instead the money went into buying «Colorful Reflections», as Joe named the business. Sharon asked if he would help train whoever bought the equipment. He said yes, Sharon and Greg bought it all, and Elegant Editions began.

Meet the Business Owner

Greg P.

Business Owner

Greg Prior’s interest in art and printed artworks started in high-​school, at UCSD where he built his first dark room in 1965. He was the school photographer for sports and the yearbook, as well as having worked for a photographer in La Jolla, CA doing studio and architectural work.

In 1985 Greg moved to Silicon Valley and started in display technology, including color work. Initially Greg worked in electronics and then added optics. This dovetailed nicely with the printing business which is quite color intensive, requiring a working knowledge of input, working, and output color profiles, color space conversion, and how the scanned and proofed images equate to the color numbers on the computer.

Greg continued researching equipment throughout the years, and decided to add a Betterlight scan back instead of scanning film captures of the artworks.

The latest research brought Greg to the Canon iPF8300 printer now in use alongside the Colorspan.