Hot take: My AI art failed hard at a local print show last weekend

I entered this piece I made in Midjourney into a small gallery show in Portland. The colors looked perfect on screen but printed totally muddy with weird artifacts in the shadows. A guy running the print booth pointed out the AI upscaled it weird and I never checked the actual pixel level. Now I gotta figure out if I can fix it or if the file is just garbage. Anyone else had prints come out looking nothing like the digital version?

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felix_thomas7358m ago

Oh man, prints are such a gamble sometimes. I had a similar thing happen with a digital painting I spent ages on, looked great on my iPad but when I got it printed at Costco the blacks turned into a weird purple blob. Midjourney upscalers are sneaky like that, I've had to learn the hard way to check every single pixel before sending to print.