The lab behind the albums you put your name on
Layflat albums, photobooks, canvas, acrylic and framed wall art — manufactured on one floor in Agra under a calibration schedule, so a repeat order next season matches the one delivered today.
The lines the lab is built around
Albums and photobooks bound on our own bench, and the printed, stretched and mounted work that goes on a wall. Nine lines in all — these are the four the floor runs most.
A photo lab in Agra that runs every order like a production job
Krishna Color Lab has manufactured photo products to specification since 2014. Printing, mounting, binding and framing all happen in the same building on Firozabad Road, which is the only reliable way to promise that the proof approved is the product despatched.
Most of what arrives here is irreplaceable, and none of it is ours to get wrong twice. That is the standard the floor works to, whether the order is a single framed panel or a season of albums going out under a client’s own name.
- Calibrated monthlyPrinters and viewing lights are re-profiled on a schedule, not when something looks off.
- Originals returnedEvery print, negative and slide you hand over comes back with the finished work.
Six capabilities, one production floor
Everything below happens in this building. Nothing is subcontracted, so nothing comes back looking like another supplier's idea of the specification.
- The same colour, this year and the next
Colour-Managed Printing
A profiled workflow from file to sheet: presses re-profiled on a schedule rather than when something looks wrong, viewing lights held to a standard, and a colour target run alongside every job so drift is caught on the machine rather than at collection. This is what makes a reprint ordered next season match the one delivered today.
Read more - Layout, print, mount, bind, cover
Album Production & Binding
Complete album manufacture on one bench. Spreads are checked for resolution and gutter placement before anything prints, pages are mounted and squared by hand, and covers are made up in-house. Nothing is subcontracted, so a fifty-album season comes back consistent instead of arriving in batches that do not quite match.
Read more - Trimming, mounting, laminating, stretching
Photo Finishing
Everything that happens between a printed sheet and a finished object: cutting square to the mark, bonding to substrate, laminating a face that will be handled, stretching canvas over timber, and cutting and joining frame mouldings. All of it under one roof, which is the only reliable way to promise the approved proof is what ships.
Read more - Foil, deboss, inlays and packaging
Customisation & Personalisation
The detail work that makes a delivered product belong to one client rather than to any lab: foil-blocked monograms, blind-debossed logos, inset cover windows, branded slipcases and presentation boxes cut to the album's own dimensions. Specified once and recorded, so repeat orders come back identical without re-briefing.
Read more - Getting the file right before it prints
Pre-Press, Restoration & Retouching
Colour correction, resolution checking, album design and the repair of damaged originals. Torn, faded and water-marked photographs are scanned at high resolution, rebuilt by hand and reprinted — and because the original is usually the only copy in existence, it is scanned first and always comes back with the finished work.
Read more - Booked capacity, white-label despatch
Trade & Volume Production
Standing capacity for the trade: bulk runs booked against a schedule, white-label despatch that carries the client's branding rather than ours, matched duplicate sets, and despatch across India. Trade accounts get one named contact and an agreed price before a job starts, so a season can be planned rather than quoted piece by piece.
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What a lab is actually for
Anyone can put ink on paper. The difference is whether it comes out the same colour twice, and whether it still looks like that in twenty years.
Colour that repeats
A profiled, calibrated workflow from file to sheet. Order the same product two years apart and they match — the one thing a general print shop cannot promise.
Everything under one roof
Printing, mounting, binding and framing all happen in the same building, so nothing is handed to a third party and nothing gets lost between them.
Materials chosen to last
Archival-grade papers, acid-free mounts and UV-filtering glazing. Photographs are meant to outlive the occasion they record.
Proofed before it runs
Anything larger than a standard print gets a proof first. Approving a small version costs nothing; reprinting a 30×40 costs a great deal.
Turnarounds you can plan around
Same-day on standard prints, a stated date on albums, and a booked slot on volume runs. If a job is going to be late you hear it from us first.
One contact on your account
You speak to the same person from specification to despatch, whether the order is a single framed enlargement or fifty albums a season.
From your files to a finished product
The same six steps whether the order is one framed panel or a season of albums. You are told where the job is at each one.
- Step 01
Send the files
WhatsApp, a drive link, an FTP drop, or prints and negatives for scanning. Send the specification with them and the first reply comes back with a stock and a date.
- Step 02
Sizing and layout
We check resolution against the size you want, set crops, and lay out album spreads so nothing important falls in the gutter.
- Step 03
Proof and approve
A calibrated proof goes back to you for anything large or bound. Nothing goes on the machine until you have said yes to it.
- Step 04
Print
Printed on profiled stock under controlled conditions, with the reference target run alongside so drift is caught on the sheet rather than at collection.
- Step 05
Finish and bind
Trimming, mounting, binding, stretching, framing — whichever the job needs — done by hand at the bench.
- Step 06
Check and hand over
Every piece is checked against the approved proof, then boxed for collection or packed for despatch. Your originals come back with it.
- 12+Years in the trade
- 4,200+Albums delivered
- Same dayStandard print turnaround
- All IndiaDespatch across
What comes off the floor
Bound albums, stretched canvas, face-mounted acrylic and framed panels — photographed as delivered, not as rendered.
Send us one job. Judge us on what comes back.
Tell us the product, the size and the quantity — an album, a canvas run, a season of photobooks — and we will come back with a stock, a finish and a despatch date.