Dan Smith, a noted printmaking artist,[2] founded the operation in 1976, endeavoring to produce artist grade printmaking ink.

[3] [4] Later, watercolors and oil paints were added to its products.

Daniel Smith's paint manufacturing facility is located in Seattle, Washington, where it mills pigments and mixes the final paint product.

The PrimaTek® collection of colors has paints derived from turquoise, amethyst, lapis lazuli, rhodonite, kyanite and serpentine.

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