Vintage Prints for Postcards and Photographs – My Experiences and Tips

Vintage Views has published over 3000 different pages, including hundreds of vintage postcards from Rochester, NY and around the world.  I don’t keep all of these just in digital form, and sometimes it takes a while to consider what form they would best take in the printed medium.

Of course, most might just use plain paper, but I’ve found that these are actually not the best way to go about it.  More textured cardstock, even larger canvas prints, are the best mediums for a given vintage scene, photograph or postcard.  Let’s take a look at each one of these options below and how I tend to make decisions based on them.

Textured Cardstock

If you are looking to mimic the original look of a postcard, you’ll need to use cardstock.  There are plenty of printers that will adequate handle cardstock, so make sure you use one.  The best printers wont bend the cardstock (a lot of basic inkjet printers will bend them, so be careful).

Here’s some examples of cardstock printed postcards:

 

Beautiful, right?  It’s really a neat way if you are putting together save the date invites, or other vintage messages that you want sent out.

Canvas Prints for Landscapes

When you have something larger than a postcard, such as a high resolution photograph or a print of a landscape painting, etc.

For these options I like to use canvas prints.  These aren’t really something you do yourself, although there are commercially available canvas printing machines, its generally more useful to send it to a custom canvas printing company.  These companies will take a photo images and send you back a canvas print, voila!

Here are a few examples:

 

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