Acrylic Varnish on Aqueous Canvas Prints?

[bob]

My faithful old Mutoh VJ1204 printer died earlier this week leaving me in desperate need of three canvas prints. I can get them locally for a ridiculously low price but they would be aqueous, not solvent. I need to know if coating these prints with plain old smell-my-butt Hobby Lobby matte acrylic varnish will have any effect on the prints. I have never, as in ever, dealt with aqueous prints before and have no idea about their care and feeding. The literature on this issue seems rather evasive and really never states authoritatively Yes or No. I did read a bit sort of recommending spraying them with Krylon Fixative. What is the wisdom of this? It's hard to get anything resembling an even coat from a spray can. I don't want to attempt it unless absolutely necessary.

I could real use some guidance here. Thanks...

 

[Smoke_Jaguar]

I had very good luck with Krylon Workable Fixatif back when I was running Stylus Pro 9900 aqueous printers doing canvas prints.

 

[Gino]

Are these to be used outdoors or inside ??

Inside just do a dry/mist coat, wait, then 1 or 2 even coats at full force. We had an aqueous printer for a while and anything going outside had a rather short lifespan. We used clearshield semi spray.

 

[Smoke_Jaguar]

Yeah, aqueous and sunlight will not play ball. Looks good for indoor stuff, especially if using 10 color high DPI art gallery type prints.

 

[BigNate]

Test a small area - some aqueous receptive coatings turn to powder with some varnishes.

We used to run a Canon 8300 aqueous. Some coatings seem to work quite well and as intended. We had a 2 prints where the image looked perfect and perfectly varnished, but when touched, everything on top of the actual paper turned to powder --- whatever hydrophilic coating they use to make the ink stick can apparently breakdown with some varnishes. (I do not remember the brand - the few brain cells left are pointing toward asking Michaels for "fixative" for a print. -- these were 1-offs, we generally did not coat the prints from that printer)